Lyrics

Yeah I saw it all
The 1960's
I watched us fall
Under the spell of the hippies
1970 and payback was hell
Boys became men
Oh those stories they'd tell
At the end of the twentieth century

Look out world
It's 1980
I feel optimistic about this one baby, baby, baby
But push came to shove
And money is power
They sold their souls
Those goddamned summer of lovers
At the end of the twentieth century

At the end of the twentieth century
I saw new year's day
My father run away
He left my mother alone in the dark in her pain
He stood ten foot tall
He could do no wrong
Now he lives in a hole in my heart
Yeah I saw it all

Right behind me
1990
Lying in bed
That's where you'll find me
We live too fast
We live too young
We lose our innocence
What have we done
At the end of the twentieth century

At the end of the twentieth century
I saw my heroes fall
I pounded on the wall
I banged and banged til my heart and my hands went raw
I saw the man go numb
At what he'd become
His father after all
Yeah, I saw it all