[PUNK:]You declared you would be three inches tallerYou only became what we made you.Thought you were chasing a dest iny callingYou only earned what we gave you.You fell and cried as our people were starving,Now you know that we blame you.Y ou tried to walk on the trail we were carving,Now you know that we framed you.[G.F.:]I'm the guy in the skyFlying high Fla shing eyesNo surprise I told liesI'm the punk in the gutterI'm the new presidentBut I grew and I bentDon't you know? don't it show?I'm the punk with the stutter.My my my my my mmmm my my my.GGGGG-g-g-g-g generation.[PUNK:]We tried to speak be tween lines of orationYou could only repeat what we told you.Your axe belongs to a dying nation,They don't know that we own you.You're watching movies trying to find the feelers,You only see what we show you.We're the slaves of the phony leadersBr eathe the air we have blown you.[G.F.:]I'm the guy [etc.]I have to be careful not to preachI can't pretend that I can tea ch,And yet I've lived your future outBy pounding stages like a clown.And on the dance floor broken glass,The bloody faces s lowly pass,The broken seats in empty rows,It all belongs to me you know.[PUNK:]You declared [etc.]