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All that teenage angst was meant to fade
Was it Sugar Magnolia or Scarlet Begonias?
I can't remember the encore they played

A different time,a distant place
The Dead jamming in the park for free
We lived outside the law but still were honest
I hummed you so soft that Ripple melody

Everything now is available,all taboos they are broken
Except the ones which remind of the hidden cost
We have gained the world,secuced every far flung land
I look at life so different now,hardened to the loss

These grubby,sweaty hands can barter with the best
Chic,calm,cool within this box of rain
Its nagging beat pounds on my oak-lined door
Blessed Prozac,the chosen drug to keep us truly sane

The mystics' god so inward looking,quite detached
He or she or it no longer intevenes
Swap for cheque book religion offering victory every time
No place for compromise with a person's real life scenes

Left and right,quaint terms of obsolete party games
George Orwell's visions packaged into TV shows
Even Greer and Lydon made cameo appearances
To cut or boost the ratings no one really knows

Sex no longer sells the dream,it kills each one it meets
Just war graffit spells out Bush's glory dream
We know our origins and perhaps our final destiny
In the here and now praise release from that sixties vision

Downloaded all the Fillmore bootlegs for my teenage son
I attend classes in how to be a moderate family man
New age , ice age , old age , mir - age
Time to embrace the man,
O - MAN
WO - MAN !
A - MEN !
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Old Hippies Never Die...
Date: Sunday, 1st January 2006 @ 09:51:01 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: TREBOR
An older man's tears less socially acceptable
All that teenage angst was meant to fade
Was it Sugar Magnolia or Scarlet Begonias?
I can't remember the encore they played

A different time,a distant place
The Dead jamming in the park for free
We lived outside the law but still were honest
I hummed you so soft that Ripple melody

Everything now is available,all taboos they are broken
Except the ones which remind of the hidden cost
We have gained the world,secuced every far flung land
I look at life so different now,hardened to the loss

These grubby,sweaty hands can barter with the best
Chic,calm,cool within this box of rain
Its nagging beat pounds on my oak-lined door
Blessed Prozac,the chosen drug to keep us truly sane

The mystics' god so inward looking,quite detached
He or she or it no longer intevenes
Swap for cheque book religion offering victory every time
No place for compromise with a person's real life scenes

Left and right,quaint terms of obsolete party games
George Orwell's visions packaged into TV shows
Even Greer and Lydon made cameo appearances
To cut or boost the ratings no one really knows

Sex no longer sells the dream,it kills each one it meets
Just war graffit spells out Bush's glory dream
We know our origins and perhaps our final destiny
In the here and now praise release from that sixties vision

Downloaded all the Fillmore bootlegs for my teenage son
I attend classes in how to be a moderate family man
New age , ice age , old age , mir - age
Time to embrace the man,
O - MAN
WO - MAN !
A - MEN !


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