| The Kids I finished the butter I had saved for the toast
Now it's all gone, the part I liked most
 And when we tell the kids how it used to be
 They laugh at us and our memory
 The kids will never believe this
The kids will never believe
 I used to drive by here when I was younger
There was a K-Mart there and people would stop
 Now it's a race, a single space - fuck
 A way to get home before that guy in his truck
 And the kids will never believe this 
Not a word of what I sing
 The kids will never believe a word
 The kids have got their own thing
 And the music was different, it was always the best
We would change everything - but give it a rest
 And kids today are all so compressed
 Without Autotune they can't even get dressed
 (short chorus, vamp, long chorus)
 It wasn't much different in color or form
The title was the same but the pages were torn
 If you remember, if you recall
 The kids today weren't even born
 And the kids today weren't even born
The kids weren't even conceived
 "None of this needed for graduation"
That's always been the incantation
 And it seems like every single generation
 Has claimed to be the first in the nation
 (long chorus)
 But now it's gone further than just the biology 
The physics has changed, and the chemistry too
 So now it's not just some random topology
 It's a whole new pharmacology
 (long chorus)
 The kids won't believe a single thing we say
The kids are on their own bus
 1/23/24
© Huw Powell printed 31 October 2025
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