the tattoos they got
in love and in anger
have turned to cartoons
not warnings of danger
Pete Townsend was singing
about my generation
who are now on Zimmer frames
and hormone replacement
the kids were alright
in the cafés downtown
where the little blue pills
went around and around
now mellowed stagnated
judgemental outdated
by the new youth culture
that’s moving and shaking
jumping on bandwagons
and acting like tarts
they’re all ******* green
with no purple hearts
but the culture it ended
the scooters all scrapped
and none of them realised
that The Who they just rocked
Apr 6, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 at 4:33 AM UTC
the tattoos they got
in love and in anger
have turned to cartoons
not warnings of danger
Pete Townsend was singing
about my generation
who are now on Zimmer frames
and hormone replacement
the kids were alright
in the cafés downtown
where the little blue pills
went around and around
now mellowed stagnated
judgemental outdated
by the new youth culture
that’s moving and shaking
jumping on bandwagons
and acting like tarts
they’re all ******* green
with no purple hearts
but the culture it ended
the scooters all scrapped
and none of them realised
that The Who they just rocked
MOD culture is a very British based phenomenon. Here is an explanation of what it was all about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_(subculture)
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