Younger Generation (2003 Remaster)

Younger Generation - The Lovin' Spoonful

Why must every generation think

Their folks are square

And no matter where their heads

Are they know Mom's ain't there

Cause I swore when I was small

That I'd remember when

I knew what's wrong with them

That I was smaller than

Determined to remember

All the cardinal rules

Like sun showers are legal grounds

For cutting school

I know I have forgotten maybe one or two

And I hope that I recall

Them all before the baby's due

And I know he'll have a question or two

Like "Hey pop can I go ride my zoom

It goes two hundred miles per

Hour suspended on balloons

And can I put a droplet of

This new stuff on my tongue

And imagine frothing dragons

While you sit and wreck your lungs "

And I must be permissive

Understanding of the younger generation

And then I'll know that all

I've learned my kid assumes

And all my deepest worries must be his cartoons

And still I'll try to tell him

All the things I've done

Relating to what he can do

When he becomes a man

And still he'll stick his fingers in the fan

And "Hey pop my girlfriend's only 3

She's got her own videophone

And she's a taking lsd

And now that we're best friends

She wants to give a bit to me

And what's the matter daddy

How come you're turning green

Can it be that you can't live up to your dreams "