Lyrics

Lazy generation

Well I guess it?s all gone away
Leaves are fallin? on the ground and I think it?s autumn
Birds fly south just like me
I guess they?re all scared of the cold and getting? old
I got my lazy boy recliner
Got my pipe and my satellite T.V.
And I complain about everything
Still my nephew he loves me
I ask him ?you gonna write a song ?bout your uncle?? he says, ?we?ll see.?

But I know that he don?t know ?bout work he just knows bout playing
By the time I finish my supper he?ll have slept away the day
Lazy generation
And he?ll never see just what I?ve seen

Must?ve been uphill both ways
Six feet of snow in the good ole days and if I didn?t have shoes then why should they?
It?s retribution
Besides it builds character
I?m talkin? ?bout the colored folk, the golden rule,
The principles paddle and prayer at school the times have changed the world?s gone to hell
It?s disintegration
At the hands of an adolescent nation

Still you?ll never see what we?ve seen in this world
And the treasure that you?ll find could never stand up to the pearls of our generation

Cuz I know that you don?t know ?bout work you just know bout play
And by the time I finish my supper you?ll have slept away the day
Lazy generation
And you?ll never see just what we?ve seen

Sometime after the Korean war the country lost what it stood for
Lost out to lazy days and crazy years and hippie tears
A vacation from moral obligation
And I hope I live to say ?boy, you kids, you?ve found a way, I?m proud of you
But I guess I always knew it.?
Cuz I know everything,
Except for what goes on past 10:15
Still you?ll never see just what I?ve seen

Well you?ll never see what we?ve seen in this world
And the treasures that you find could never stand up to the pearls of our generation

Well he says, ?we?ve all got treasures who?s is better than the next?
The sophomore kicks the freshman as the junior studies the text of evolution
That old permanent solution
Trust the good in life there are snakes among us all
There are lazy rats and leaders, lovers and defeaters
And no one will ever see what everybody sees
No one will ever live to be as old as these trees
And in the falling of their leaves I see the beginning of another generation

And I know that they won?t know ?bout work they?ll just know ?bout play
And by the time I?ve finished my supper they?ll have slept away the day
The new lazy generation
And they?ll never see just what I?ve seen and they?ll never want to be what we?ve been
And by the time they get here I think they?ll know just what we mean