Kids Today - Lloyd Cole

Wouldn’t you say?

There is something wrong with kids today

They leave on their hats

While they’re digging that be-bop jazz

They pout their lips and shrug

All they want to do is jitterbug

Isn’t it so?

We’re juvenile delinquent wrecks, I know

With our Heavy Metal comic books

And our rock’n’roll

We wear red leatherette

We’ll be burning churches next

But I don’t want to date the hat check girl

And I don’t need to raze the suburbs

But, how am I going to get the girl

If I don’t bitch and fuss?

And rage against

Rage against, rage against, rage against

Something, anything

What is this noise?

And how are we to tell the girls from boys?

With their safety pins and nihilism

And body art

To rise above what?

They’re doing the Double Lindy Hop

Oh and I know, I know

The Modern World is not so bad, oh I know

We’ve got amplified guitars

For playing those whorehouse chords

Come down to the 54

And find your spot out on the floor

Dig it

But I don’t want to date the hat check girl

And I don’t need to raze the suburbs

But, how am I going to get ahead

If I don’t bitch and fuss?

And rage against

Rage against, rage against, rage against

Something, anything

How can you say?

There is nothing wrong with kids today

We got post ironic ennui

Queens Of The Stone Age

I love your Vivienne Westwood shirt

Why won’t you let me wear it?