It s the year 2009
And we are living in dangerous times
We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don t run for government and politicians don t inhale.
A long time ago in a time called the 60 s,
People thought pop music was going to change the world.
They said things like All you need is love ,
Took the pregnancy pill, and whatever else they could get hold of,
Bob Dylan went electric, Sgt Peppers was a hit
And people realised they could change the world if they gave a shit!
But people got jaded when Vietnam was invaded,
And Jimi, Janis and Morrison assasinated
By the C.I.A.
That was the day
The music died
Take me back to 1969
When changing the world meant a corny line
Like Love Is You Need
Or smoking an ounce of weed
Or taking LSD at Woodstock
Now it s the year 2009
And again we re living in dangerous times
We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don t run for government and politicians don t inhale.
Now its forty years later.
Things have been greater.
The sexual revolution left a fishy taste
Of teenage pregnancies in council estates.
And we ve still got war.
We ve still got famine.
As opposed to getting out your head to The Grateful Dead
People do it now listening to Radiohead instead.
But everyoneâs still jaded.
Now Iraq s been invaded.
The Gaza strip s in Israel s grip,
Even Syria has been raided.
Still we tow the line,
Maybe now s the time
To bring the music back to life.
Take me back to 1969
When changing the world meant a corny line
Like Love Is You Need
Or smoking an ounce of weed
Or taking LSD at Woodstock
Now it s the year 2009
And again we re living in dangerous times
We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don t run for government and politicians don t inhale.
Now everyoneâs still jaded.
And the hippies have all traded
Free love in for a stable job and like their bell bottoms they ve faded
How did it go this far.
Remember who you are,
And give the music C.P.R.
Take me back to 1969
When changing the world meant a corny line
Like Love Is You Need
Or smoking an ounce of weed
Or taking LSD at Woodstock
Now it s the year 2009
And again we re living in dangerous times
We should learn from the hippies, and why the movement failed:
Hippies don t run for government and politicians (Execpt Barack Obama that one time in
college) don t inhale.
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