Cry of Youth

Please don’t look down on us
Because we are young
Don’t complain about the clothes we wear
Or about the songs we’ve sung

We’re just trying to figure out what we don’t understand
And in truth, that’s quite a lot
You hope we are walking the path that you did
And we desperately pray that we’re not

We grew up wanting to be like you
But now we’re not so sure
For your generation has caused all the problems
that ours will have to cure

You will never see us crying
Though we sometimes wish you could
We used to hate it when you said, “I love you.”
But now we wish you would

And now our world is scary
Goodbye sweet “ignorance is bliss”
When all the problems in the world
could be solved by mother’s kiss

We don’t want to be what society calls us
A punk, a jock, a nerd
But we’re just too afraid to tear down our walls
and abandon our own little herd

We look at the pictures in the albums
And we know you love us dearly
But somehow it seems, no matter how hard you try
You cannot see us clearly

To you, the world must be spinning too fast
You don’t like the future and you can’t shake the past
For us it seems to be spinning too slow
We can’t solve the world’s problems ‘til we’re running the show

We really want to speak out
And break the ties that bind
But we’re all scared to reach out
And touch those who aren’t our kind

We’re each trying to change our own little world
But we can’t change anything on our own
We’ve got to learn to get over ourselves
Or be forever alone

The world is quickly getting darker
And the good things seem so few
We’ve got to get to know each other
So we won’t end up like you