Fast Forward - Joe Jackson

I’m hitting fast forward

Seems like we’d gotten kind of stuck

Time to get out of town and try to

Set the controls for sometime off in the future

Where people will be happy instead of

Getting dumber and getting scareder all the time

Scared of their own shadows and scared to take a fall

Either miserable with millions or dying for a dime

Desperate to live forever or lucky to live at all

And if I could see myself from some other planet

Would I be shaking my head sadly or

Would I be laughing

Saying it’s always been the same

But anyway

Not going back to the Age of Gold or the Age of Sin

Fast forward till I understand the age I’m in

And it’s always the old guys bitching

About the young guys growing beards

Or turning into sissies or something

While they’re trying to hold back time

As if that isn’t weird

Meanwhile the young guys are

Waiting for respect when what they wanna be is cool

Cool calm and collected just as if that isn’t strange

Or they wanna blow the whistle, ring the bell and change the rules

When the game goes on forever

It’s just the uniforms that change

If this is the best of times or if it’s the worst

There’s some difference of opinion out there

Everyone is a genius

But no one has any friends

Or is it the other way around

Not going back to the Age of Gold or the Age of Sin

Fast forward till I understand the age I’m in

Sometimes I look at the Moon

And I think I know just how she feels

Going round and round us again

As we go round the Sun

Watching us as fools and geniuses rush in

And you and me age disgracefully

And have way too much fun

And everyone knows about what’s over and done

And tied up with pretty ribbons on it

One king after another

With a mad one and a queen or two

Thrown in for good measure and meanwhile

We can make the future, make it every bit as clear

Make a friendly Star Trek universe, 'cause everything’s allowed

The only place that’s seriously strange to be is here

And the only time that’s maddeningly mysterious is now

So I’m hitting fast forward

Come on get on board!

You don’t wanna be late now…

Not going back to the Age of Gold or the Age of Sin

Fast forward till I understand the age I’m in