I wrote this because I needed to vent, and even though I'm not a poet, I liked this. |
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 |