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Thank You Hippie Generation

from Trains Across the Sea by Trains Across the Sea

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My most controversial song. A protest song against protesting. To ignore it is to prove its point. (how about THAT for a spineless trick to get you to listen...)

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Well long ago, there were a good-hearted few
Who looked around and saw what they had to do
So they wrote some songs, and made some signs
And formed a bunch of picket lines
And pissed off the rest of the country
But by and by their numbers grew and grew
Till they were side by side with My Lai on the news
And when wearing flowers or burning towns
Seemed the only paths we could go down
Well we packed it up and our war went away

So thank you hippie generation
For not quittin' until you knew your voice was heard
Because today we'd like some change from the way it is
And I think you've shown us that it can be done

Because if today I told my friends at work
"By five thirty tonight I'll be at the demonstration
"Yeah, we're marching there to stop this war
"and bring the troops back home."
They'd laugh me right out of the break room
Oh but I refuse to believe I'm the only one who knows
Fuck the weatherman, we could be the wind that blows
But we don't know what's the best to do
So we'll join another Facebook group
And try to drink our war away

So thank you hippie generation
But I'm not sure that a protest is the way
Because today we'd like some change from the way it is
But don't forget, man, the times they have a-changed.

So on a gray day back in February '03
The world got fed up and took its case to the streets
Ten million worldwide marching strong
Broke all those records from Vietnam
And thirty three days later they invaded

So thank you hippie generation
For making protest a dirty word
Because today we'd like some change from the way it is
You've just given us one less option

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from Trains Across the Sea, released July 14, 2008

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Trains Across the Sea is the musical output of Andy Gallagher.

He also co-wrote the trucker musical "SEMI FAME: The Truck Route to Broadway."

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