Song Description
Using political and cultural events as reference points, including rock and roll album titles, each verse of the song attempts to capture a sense of the decades that have passed from the 1950s through the 2000s. It is a sardonic take on growing up in America.
| Song Length |
3:30 |
Genre |
Rock - Roots/Rock n' Roll, Rock - Punk |
| Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Subject |
General |
| Similar Artists |
The Velvet Underground |
Language |
English |
Lyrics
Leather jackets/Switch Blade Knives
Paragons meet the Jesters/Levittown Wives
Duck and cover/Run and Hide
Here comes the A-Bomb/Political Jive
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Leather jackets/Switch Blade Knives
Paragons meet the Jesters/Levittown Wives
Velvet jackets/Tie-dyed jeans/Surrealistic Pillow/Marijuana dreams
Tune in and turn on/Drop out for sure/Here comes the draft boards/Political War
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Velvet jackets/Tie-dyed jeans/Surrealistic Pillow/Marijuana dreams
Leather jackets/Safety pins/Sticky Fingers/All over again
Disco Ducks/Playboy Geeks/Here comes the Sex Repressed/Political Freaks
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Leather jackets/Safety pins/Sticky Fingers/All over again
Straight jackets/RayGun years/Appetite for Destruction/Herpes fears
Capitalist greed/Trickle down lies/Here comes the Iran gate/Political Guys
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Straight jackets/RayGun years/Appetite for Destruction/Herpes fears
Armani jackets/computer hackers/Achtung Baby/burned out slackers
Hip-hop rappers/big screen TV's/Millennium political/prophecies
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Armani jackets/computer hackers/Achtung Baby/burned out slackers
Camouflage Jackets/Bush league War/Is this it?/ I can't take no more
Blood for oil/Terrorist chills/Here come the night cause/Politics kills.
Oh baby do you know what I mean/Yeah baby that was our scene
Camouflage Jackets/Bush league War/Is this it?/I can't take no more