Blank Generation

Blank Generation

They say we been

Going down and going down

Been traveling on the road to nowhere

Going down, round and round

Trying to get to the place where we started

When I was just a boy

At four years old thought the world was joy

As a kid I'd play, just create the day

As I saw it my way

But time blows by

And strips us to the bone

Poisoned winds of woe

Teach us that we're

Alone in this world

We learned to see all the corruption and greed

All its hate, all its pain, so

A toast to the end of our innocence

A toast to our blank generation

They say we been

Going down, been going down

Been travelling on the road to nowhere

Going down, round and round

Trying to get to the place where we started

When I was seventeen

Realizing the world wasn't what she seemed

Underneath the night San Francisco sky

I would see, too clearly

But time blows by

And strips us to the bone

Poisoned winds of woe

Teach us that we're

Alone in this world

We learned to see all the corruption and greed

All its hate, all its pain, so

A toast to the end of our innocence

A toast to our blank generation

So here's to our collagen lips and saline tits

To our growth hormones and antibiotics

To the Hollywood world we made out of Barbie doll hearts

After we melted them down so we could make our new start

Here's to a generation scared and always wondering why

Instead of playing doctor, we play shoot each other and die

Instead of ring around the rosie, we play hide from mommy

Cause mommy's been drinking again and we don't want to get beat

Even with all our tattoos, and all our cheap thrills

There's still a hole inside of us that may not ever get filled

So we give back a little bit of what the world's given us

Giving back a bit of never giving a fuck

Here's to the justice never dealt, to innocent, proven guilty

Here's to bad cops turning cheeks when real cops are on the street

Here's to the rat-tat-n-tat of gun shots, and your life is shattered

Here's to "gimme me your cash or your brains is gettin' splattered"

Here's to mad cow disease and all that yummy msg

Here's to Mickey d's serving all those mutant chick-a-dees

This is a toast to celebrate the end of our innocence

This is a toast to celebrate how…

We've become desensitized

If life is to grow

Some life must die

We learned to take all the corruption and greed

All its hate, all its pain, so

A toast to the end of our innocence

Our generation

We now embrace all the corruption

And greed, all its hate, all its pain, so

A toast to the end of our innocence

Our blank generation