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Why must every generation think they're folks are 
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square?
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And no matter where they're heads are, they know 
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mom's aint there.
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Cause' I swore when I was small, that I'd remember 
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when,
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I knew what's wrong with them, that I was smaller 
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than.

(repetir a base de cima)

Determined to remember all the cardinal rules.
Like, sunshowers 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'll know he'll have a question or two.

(refrão)

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Like, hey pop. Can I go ride my zoom?
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It goes twohundred miles an hour, suspended on 
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baloons.
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And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my 
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tounge?
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And imagine puffing dragons, while you sit and wreck 
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your'e lungs.
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And I must me permissive, understanding of the younger 
generation.

(o resto é repetição)

And then I 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,
relating to what he can do when he becomes a man.
And still he'll sticks his fingers in the fan.

(repetir o refrão)

And hey pop, my girlfriend's only three She's got her 
own videophone, and she's a-taking LSD.
And now that were best friends, she want's to give a 
bit to me.

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But whats the matter daddy? How come your'e turning 
green?
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Can it be that you can't live up to your'e dreams?