This is what I want

This is what I want

I want all the punks to take to the streets playing their guitars

This is what I want

Black kids and white kids sharing all the songs that their grandmamas taught 'em

And we'll play 'em on our horns

we'll bang 'em on our drums

we'll play 'em on our guitars

Singing songs that our mothers sang to us when we were young

Songs that we may remember reading

Songs we heard a stranger sing or humming on the streets

Songs we made up yesterday on the porch in the rain on our guitars

And we'll never sing a song we heard on your radio

or a song someone else was paid to write or sing

And we'll never sing of sex the fakest kind of love

Those songs will not be played on our guitars