I Don't Know What Happened To The Kids - Labi Siffre

I don’t know what’s happened to the kids today

We were different from the kids today

In every way

We didn’t have none of this crazy music

We didn’t have none of these crazy clothes

We didn’t have guys getting high on the doorstop

We didn’t have none of those no, no

I don’t care for these long haired guys

They need a good bath

They got shifty eyes

They’re either sleeping in the park

Begging in th street

Or they’re speeding 'round town in a Lotus Elite

(Wre'd they get the money from anyway?)

I can’t say that I fought for kids like you in the war

I fought for kids like the kids I thought you’d be

That’s who I was fighting for

Put you all in the army, that’s what I’d do

Short back and sides, make men of you

Willi’s my boy, he’s been good up till now

But last night he said «I'm gonna make it

On my own somehow

Going off with my friends on the road a while

Get away from you, you can drop dead, that’s

What you can do!»

I would have thought that after fifty-five years

A body could expect some kind of respect

From the kids today

I don’t know what’s happened to the kids today

I don’t know what’s happened to the kids today