LP Lovin’ Spoonful / Everything Playing 1968

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1. Lyrics: Younger Generation

   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 then

   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 an hour suspended by 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

   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
   Related 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 three
   She´s got her own videophone and she´s taking L.S.D.
   And now that we´re best friends she wants to give a bit to me
   But what´s the matter Daddy, how come you´re turning green?
   Can it be that you can´t live up to your dream?”

   John Sebastian, 1968