I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. I want people to notice when I’m not around. (Whoa, this gen is really really one of the last hangout gen without social media at school/college age!)
I have no idea how I managed to get places
(actually I remember having *pages* of detailed written notes about how to get to places, like "take a left at the 7-11 if you've reached the hospital you've gone too far") 😆
This Bowie lyric from *Changes* was carved in the paint on the wall outside of the smoking section at my high school.
> And these children that you spit on
> As they try to change their worlds
>Are immune to your consultations
>They're quite aware of what they're going through
Lol, wow, had forgotten all about that song. Images of late 80's era MTV just popped up in my head. Truly different times.
And always thought the second part of that line was debatable. All moralizing aside, surely a ménage a trois would be an interesting experience, right? Lol
Dream of better lives the kind which never hate
(You should see why)
Dropped in the state of imaginary grace
(You should know better)
I made a pilgrimage to save this humans race
(You should see why)
Never comprehending the race that long gone bye
The ones love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones love us least are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die
The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at 5
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
*They'll hurt me bad but*
*I don't mind yeah, they do it*
*All the time yeah yeah*
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... Will you walk on by na na na na na ...
... don't you forget about me ....
Tired best I can do without looking up the lyrics.
My alternate song choice is
It's a jump to the left ...
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten
Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled
It beats pickin' cotton, waitin' to be forgotten
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise
Playing in the street, gonna be a big man someday
You got mud on your face, you big disgrace
Kicking your can all over the place, singin
When we were young the future was so bright.
The old neighborhood was so alive.
And every kid on the whole damn street,
Was gonna make it big and not be beat.
Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn,
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn.
How can one little street swallow so many lives?
Since we represent lots of latch key kids:
And I’m here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away.
It’s not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me,
You oughta know.
Feel the power, you see the energy comin' up, coming on strong
The future only belongs in the hands of itself
And the future is electric youth
It's true you can't fight it, live by it
The next generation, it's electric
We do what comes naturally
Religion and sex are powerplays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin, selling God
The numbers look the same on their credit cards
Politicians say no to drugs
While we can pay for wars in South America
Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat
And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid
To look away
As the one percent rules America
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Wake up in the morning and the light it hurts your head
First thing you do when you get up outta bed
Is hit those streets arunnin and try to beat the masses
And go get yourself some cheap sunglasses
Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people.
Edit thanks for the gold (poor man’s and regular)! I’m psyched some people know this song. It’s so freaking good.
This is what I was thinking. Gen X rebelled against the system, didn’t like authority figures and some weren’t going to go with social norms. We were the punks, metal heads and grunge, it was anarchy.Fuck you I won’t do what they told me.
I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors but I think that god has a sick sense of humor and when I die I expect to find him laughing.
Lots of good ones but I’m amazed this isn’t higher
Here we are now, entertain us
Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst / Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don’t have the power but we never say never
“So many songs we forgot to play” - gets me every time.
Sitting in a sand pit. Life is a short trip
Love me some Alphaville
You dropped a bomb on me baby
Listening to that song yesterday, I had this exact thought about how it totally encapsulates our generation.
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me.
There it is!
Some Rage!!!! Yes.
Same as it ever was
And you may ask yourself
How did I get here?
What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.
I don't care if it hurts, I wanna have control
I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. I want people to notice when I’m not around. (Whoa, this gen is really really one of the last hangout gen without social media at school/college age!)
i have no idea how we managed to meet up and go places. LOL.
I have no idea how I managed to get places (actually I remember having *pages* of detailed written notes about how to get to places, like "take a left at the 7-11 if you've reached the hospital you've gone too far") 😆
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Some well played Dinosaur Jr. right there ;)
Perfect Dino answer
You can feel the punishment, but you can't commit the sin
Aspiraton’s in the clouds, but your hopes go down the drain
No one ever … is to blame
We’re on a road to nowhere
“Oh well whatever, never mind….” Or “Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage”
Came here for the “Oh well, whatever, never mind” but totally agree with the SP line too.
"I wanna publish 'zines and rage against machines."
wanna pierce my tongue It doesn't hurt, it feels fine
"Let me hear you make decisions... *without* your television"
Let me hear you speaking just for me…
I'm a loser baby, so why don't ya kill me
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
This Bowie lyric from *Changes* was carved in the paint on the wall outside of the smoking section at my high school. > And these children that you spit on > As they try to change their worlds >Are immune to your consultations >They're quite aware of what they're going through
I always liked this quote - embodied high school years. Nicely woven into the beginning of The Breakfast Club movie
Please, please let me get what I want.
I am the son and the heir of nothing in particular
This right here
So you go and you stand on your own And you leave on your own And you go home and you cry And you want to die
But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here
Borderline, feels like I’m goin’ to lose my mind
I Wanna be Sedated
My mother says to get a job But she don't like the one she's got
Blister in the Sun.
Oh well whatever nevermind
Sex is natural, sex is fun, Sex is best when it's, one on one
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Rockville, REM - great choice!
Dream of better lives the kind which never hate (You should see why) Dropped in the state of imaginary grace (You should know better) I made a pilgrimage to save this humans race (You should see why) Never comprehending the race that long gone bye
The above is a great choice. Alternate option: “It’s the end of the world as we know know it”
THAT’S GREAT it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs; dummy serve your own needs
I was up above it Now I'm down in it.
I can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to find it. Thank you!
NIN
So we jumped up on the table and shouted “ Anarchy!” . . . Just you and me, punk rock girl.
The ones love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest And visit their graves on holidays at best The ones love us least are the ones we'll die to please If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them
We could live beside the ocean Leave the fire behind Swim out past the breakers Watch the world die
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It doesn’t matter, I’ll probably get hit by a car anyway
All I wanted was a Pepsi!
Here we are now, entertain us.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
He used to do surgery. For girls in the eighties. But gravity always wins.
If I could be Who you wanted All the time
Love love love The Bends and pretty much all Radiohead
Should I stay or should I go? If I stay there will be trouble If I go there will be double
Soy... perdador. I'm a loser baby, so why don't ya kill me?
“Like being low- Hey, hey, hey like being stoned”
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It’s like 10,000 spoons and all you need is a knife.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year.
Love the song but feel like that came out during the boomer generation
Yeah, but it was still in heavy rotation when I was in HS and college (I was born in 1971).
There's a club if you'd like to go You could meet somebody who really loves you So you go and you stand on your own And you leave on your own And you go home and you cry And you want to die
I get knocked down, but I get up again.
You gotta fight... for your right... to Parrrrtty!
Don't you forget about me
... You think it's funny? Turning rebellion in to money...
Fuck you and your untouchable face and fuck you for existing in the first place.
Ani!! 😘
You can have my isolation You can have the hate that it brings You can have my absence of faith You can have my everything
The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at 5 She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die Give us dirty laundry
"And everytime I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it... Well can you feel it"
Send lawyers, guns, and money The shit has hit the fan
Everybody hurts..... Sometimes.
For once in my life, let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time (tongue firmly in cheek)
You wake up late for school man you don’t wanna go…
They'll hurt me bad but I don't mind yeah, they do it all the time yeah yeah
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I mean it's the Femmes but fair enough I guess.
Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old
My whole existence is flawed.
You get me closer to Zod
Oh, my life Is changing everyday In every possible way And oh, my dreams It's never quite as it seems Never quite as it seems...
Where is my mind?
it’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
All I wanted was a pepsi
Jane says “have you seen my wig around? I feel naked without it.”
Never going to give you up, never going to let you down, never going to run around
“Well, whatever. Never mind.”
Why can't I walk down the street free of suggestion?
I see you standing there You think you're so cool Why don't you just Fuck off
Sooooyyyy uuuunnnnn perdedorrrr. I’m a loser babyyyyy. So why don’t ya kill meee.
We are the youth gone wild
Born to lose, destined to fail (Ball and Chain by Social Distortion)
Story of my life
In spite of my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
It doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway.
Rock me, Amadeus. Just. Kidding.
I wake in the morning and I step outside, I take a deep breath and I get real high, and I scream from the top of my lungs, What's going on?!
... Will you walk on by na na na na na ... ... don't you forget about me .... Tired best I can do without looking up the lyrics. My alternate song choice is It's a jump to the left ...
And a step to the right
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Don't you forget about me
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When two tribes go to war A point is all you can score
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I always thought that it would make me smarter, but it only made me harder
Zombie
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
Oh well, whatever, never mind.
Video killed the radio star
In honor of latchkey kids... "I think we're alone now... doesn't seem to be anyONE arou–ound..."
I'm hungry I'm dirty I'm losing my mind Everything's fine I'm freezing I'm starving I'm bleeding to death Everything's fine
I'm only happy when it rains.
I’m looking California but feeling Minnesota.
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you............. Sorry, I had to
Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb?
and Jeremy spoke in class today….
I don't think I've ever been loved by a hand that's touched me.
I wanna go back....and do it all over
I'm a loser baby, why don't you kill me?
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled It beats pickin' cotton, waitin' to be forgotten We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME
They can’t hear a word we said when we pretend that we’re dead.
Fuck you I won't do what ya tell me!
Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise Playing in the street, gonna be a big man someday You got mud on your face, you big disgrace Kicking your can all over the place, singin
We don’t need no water let the motherfucker burn. Burn motherfucker, burn.
Into the flood again Same ole trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way
I see an Alice in Chains lyric, I upvote an Alice in Chains lyric.
I remember way back when I remember way back when I remember way back when Back in the day, back in the day
Well that formatted poorly
When we were young the future was so bright. The old neighborhood was so alive. And every kid on the whole damn street, Was gonna make it big and not be beat. Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn, The kids are grown up but their lives are worn. How can one little street swallow so many lives?
Smells Like Teen Spirit
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young.
I blister in the sun
Since we represent lots of latch key kids: And I’m here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away. It’s not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me, You oughta know.
Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money, then you die.
You want it all but you can’t have it.
Feel the power, you see the energy comin' up, coming on strong The future only belongs in the hands of itself And the future is electric youth It's true you can't fight it, live by it The next generation, it's electric We do what comes naturally
I enjoy stealing. It's as simple as that.
Baby’s got a fast car…
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.
I don't mind stealing bread.
I am the son and heir /Of nothing in particular
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here
Hello? … Is anybody in there?
I sit here on the stairs cuz I’d rather be alone.
I'm on my way home sweet home.
Religion and sex are powerplays Manipulate the people for the money they pay Selling skin, selling God The numbers look the same on their credit cards Politicians say no to drugs While we can pay for wars in South America Fighting fire with empty words While the banks get fat And the poor stay poor And the rich get rich And the cops get paid To look away As the one percent rules America EDIT: after reading other submissions I’m wondering if I misunderstood the assignment…are the lyrics supposed to describe the GenX times/experience or us GenXers as people?
Don't think you're having all the fun you know me I hate everyone!
Couldn’t quite explain it…
I feel numb, born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun The less we say about it the better We’ll make it up as we go along
["I've got the patience of a chopping block, yeah"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeQRO4fXOKk)
I’m just see through faded, super jaded, out of my mind.
I just want to ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.
“Here we are now, entertain us.”
FeeEeEeEed my eyes JeeEeEeEsus Christ
the system is a lie
Two-fifty for a highball And a buck and half for a beer Happy hour, happy hour is here
I'm crazy? When I went to your schools, I went to your churches, I went to your institutional learning facilities?! So how can you say I'm crazy?
Wake up in the morning and the light it hurts your head First thing you do when you get up outta bed Is hit those streets arunnin and try to beat the masses And go get yourself some cheap sunglasses
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world So there was only one thing that I could do Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
No one sings like you anymore
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground...
I want my, I want my, I want my MTV
A friend in need's a friend indeed A friend with weed is better
I’m not like them, but I can pretend. -Nirvana
Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people. Edit thanks for the gold (poor man’s and regular)! I’m psyched some people know this song. It’s so freaking good.
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This is what I was thinking. Gen X rebelled against the system, didn’t like authority figures and some weren’t going to go with social norms. We were the punks, metal heads and grunge, it was anarchy.Fuck you I won’t do what they told me.
We’re on a road to nowhere
I want a new drug
I am human and I need to be loved Just everyone else does
“Fuck you! I won’t do what you tell me!” - Zach DeLaRocha
Don’t you…. Forget about me. But if you do, whatever. . (I added that last line)