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(chorus)
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
When the head of state didn’t play guitar,
Not everybody drove a car,
When music really mattered and radio was king,
When accountants didn’t have control
And the media couldn’t buy your soul
And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything
Chorus
When popstars still remained a myth
And ignorance could still be bliss
And when God Save the Queen she turned a whiter shade of pale
When my mom and dad were in their teen
and anarchy was still a dream
and the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail
Chorus
When record shops were on top
and vinyl was all that they stocked
and the super info highway was still drifting out in space
kids were wearing hand me downs,
and playing games meant kick arounds
and footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face
Chorus
I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
Boo x
I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
If it costs "a penny for your thoughts", but people give you their "two-pence worth", who is getting the extra penny?
-James
"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"
Getting to the other side
Chaos is the natural state of the universe
Some days I'm the pigeon, some days I'm the statue.
honourary militant margerine ninJAH
If it wasn't for displacement activity I wouldn't get half as much done
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
"the geeks have got you" - Gayle
Written by: simta
id rather go on that holiday in cambodia or kick out some jams
Boo x
I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
If it costs "a penny for your thoughts", but people give you their "two-pence worth", who is getting the extra penny?
Written by: DrBoo
But yes. As with Mr Majestik I prefer to think of this as a potential lack of passion/active thread, rather than can we change anything thread. Or are they not part of the same thing?
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there's a fair few (and a lot of english) punk that sings about nothing more than going down the pub and getting pissed...
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Written by: Mr Majestik
dream....................the music INDUSTRY is a capitalist endeavour.
Written by: DrBooI'd say so, and with the bit about Blair's guitar bit, that could have to do with the apparent selling out of that one. He used to be a peace activist, one of us! Now he's actually bought into a war, and I do mean bought. I'm not even being governed by his lot and I feel betrayed.
I like to think that she's referring to the idea that both hippies and punks were revolutionaries/anarchists
Chucks nuns
Property of mynci and blu_valley, and proud of it.
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
Written by: Non
so regarding all of the above, i think it's possible that this songwriter is you're classic post-modernist young person, disillusioned and wanting to do something about it, but a/ how do you express that, except in terms of what you know? there is a suspiscion that being a punk rocker or a hippy meant somethng more, and people relate to that because of the nostalgia and b/ maybe she's only concerned with improving the world on a superficial level or c/ merely presenting the image that she is deep thoughtful and emotional, and that she just wants SOMEONE TO LISTEN!!!! in summary..... *sigh, unpacks box labelled "EMOs, maybe you could change the world if you spent less time whinging" and packs her in* (no offence intended, for all i know i might actually like her music if i heard it...)
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
May the wind always be at your back and the sun always upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars
May the wind always be at your back and the sun always upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars
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