The Punk and the Godfather

You declared you would be three inches taller

You only became what we made you

Thought you were chasing a destiny calling

You only earned what we gave you

You fell and cried as our people were starving

Now you know that we blame you

You tried to walk on the trail we were carving

Now you know that we framed you

I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter

I'm the new president

And I grew and I bent

Don't you know, don't it show?

I'm the punk with the stutter

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

We tried to speak between lines of oration

You could only repeat what we told you

Your axe belongs to a dying nation

They don't know that we own you

You're watching movies trying to find the feelers

You only see what we show you

We're the slaves of the phony leaders

Breathe the air we have blown you

I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter

I'm the new president

And I grew and I bent

Don't you know, don't it show?

I'm the punk with the stutter

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

I have to be careful not to preach

I can't pretend that I can teach

And yet I've lived your future out

By pounding stages like a clown

And on the dance floor broken glass

And bloody faces slowly pass

The numbered seats in empty rows

It all belongs to me, you know (okay!)

You declared you would be three inches taller

You only became what we made you

Thought you were chasing a destiny calling

You only earned what we gave you

You fell and cried as our people were starving

Now you know that we blame you

You tried to walk on the trail we were carving

Now you know that we framed you

I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter

I'm the new president

And I grew and I bent

Don't you know, don't it show?

I'm the punk with the stutter

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation

My, my, my, my, my generation