Younger Generation - John Sebastian

Why must every generation think their folks are square

And no matter where their heads are they know mom 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 knoe 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 them 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 lsd

And now that we are best friends

She wants to give a bit to me

But what is the matter daddy

How come you are turning green

Could it be that you can not live up to your dream

Thank you