On baby boomers changing life, and life changing.

We don’t care to take our share.
Long hair, no-hair, We Don’t Care!
Turned on, tuned in, dropped out.
They still love us (Buying Clout).

We’re the Pepsi™ Generation,
Baby Boomers to Geezer Nation.
No apologies, no regrets.
Free Love and funny cigarettes.

Been there, Done that,
The Army before the funny hat.
Napalm, China White,
Fight all day and fight all night.

We’d like to buy the World a Coke™
Love Train©, and that’s no joke.
Shed the dagger and the cloak.
Break the mirrors,clear the smoke.
It’s on us and that’s the joke.

Protest, high test, student activists.
Munich, tunics, Olympic athlete’s fists.
Youthful rage, advancing age, turn the page
Of history.
Get in line, changing times, losing all the mystery.

We’re the Yuppie Generation,
We’re too rich to feed the nation.
Even poor folks hate inflation
Leave us be.

New Mercedes, chase the ladies
Which one hates us the least?
We might score. They score more.
The Beauty’s such a beast.

Idealism, Communism, Humpty Dumpty down
Watergate, rage and hate, the Prez is such a clown.
Losing jobs, angry mobs, the Man still owns the town.

Wall Street, meet and greet, scotch drank neat
Girlfriend’s late, going straight, graduate
To Life
Just one drink, waistline shrink, got to call the wife.

Sittin’ on the Dock at the Bay,
While our lives just skitter away.
Hate the job, but love the pay.
You can’t Win if you don’t Play.

We like to Buy, the world’s a coke.
Too much cash, but always broke
We’d eat steak, but we might choke.
Sleeping dogs don’t like the poke.
All the mirrors, too much smoke.
This is really my last toke.
Need to crash or we might croak.

Intersection, find direction, going with the flow.
Getting older, much less bolder, let’s not think, let’s go.
War, what’s it good for, economies not life.
Peace and Love, they can shove,
Have you met my 2nd wife?

Lots to lose. Too much booze. Memory is lost.
Still we function, no compunction,
Rather Boss than bossed.

Sold the soul, empty hole
Burned out wreckage set adrift.
Still we fight, day and night.
While we dig for gold and sift.

Fight has changed.
We’re deranged.
Wanting Medicare and Medicade.
Where’s my check?
What the heck?
Money’s gone that we have paid.

Find your God,
Above the sod
Life after the snip.
Losing hate, not too late
Celebrate, real Soul-Mate
The meaning’s in the trip.

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