Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Younger Generation Blues, artist - Janis Ian. Album song Society's Child: The Verve Recordings, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1994
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English
Younger Generation Blues |
I was standing on the corner, I was smoking on the sly |
When along comes a grownup from the grown-up FBI |
He said — this ain’t Marlboro country, hon |
Where’s you get your cigarettes? |
You know you are too young |
Then up stepped three more governmental nuts |
Who’d been laying in the gutter disguised as cigarette butts |
If you think I’m hating grown-ups, you’ve got me all wrong |
They’re very nice people when they stay where they belong |
But I’m the younger generation |
And your rules are giving me fixations |
I’ve got those younger generation, regurgitatin' blues |
Called for the sergeant. |
He rolled up in a hearse |
And he called me a lousy no-good juvenile pervert |
He gave me a lecture on cancer of the lung |
Said — anyone who smokes is a low down dirty bum |
«Don't let me catch you smoking around here again», he said |
And he took another drag of his own cigarette |
If you think I’m hating grown-ups, you’ve got me all wrong |
They’re very nice people when they stay where they belong |
But I’m the younger generation |
And your rules are giving me fixations |
I’ve got those younger generation, regurgitatin' blues |
Going down the corner, I was going against the light |
Which had just turned green, when up comes this guy |
Says — don’t you know that’s a federal offense? |
Seems like kids your age just ain’t got no sense |
Don’t you know you’re risking juvenile arrest? |
Committing suicide is punishable by death |
If you think I’m hating grown-ups, you’ve got me all wrong |
They’re very nice people when they stay where they belong |
But I’m the younger generation |
And your rules are giving me fixations |
I’ve got those younger generation, regurgitatin' blues |
Sitting on a city park bench, Reader’s Digest in my hand |
When down next to me sits this liberal looking man |
Who says — you’re a cute chick, I believe in being free |
I swung at him with my pocket book — don’t you natural around me! |
He took out a badge, put some handcuffs on my hands |
«Now you’re carrying a weapon, self defense be damned» |
If you think I’m hating grown-ups, you’ve got me all wrong |
They’re very nice people when they stay where they belong |
But I’m the younger generation |
And your rules are giving me fixations |
I’ve got those younger generation, regurgitatin' blues |