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Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end
To it all
And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin dues
Down to see
That we don't even care
As restless as we are
And we found pull
In the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it
To see that we don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end
To it all
And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin dues
Down to see
That we don't even care
As restless as we are
And we found pull
In the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it
To see that we don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
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--"Cool kids never have the time"...symbolizes their unwillingness to keep track of time, obviously. But a deeper meaning: they don't really have a plan for their future, because they're only concerned with living in the present
--"We were sure we'd never see an end to it all"...goes along with the above comment; they believed they'd be young forever
--"I don't even care to shake these zipper blues"...they weren't too concerned about what the opposite sex thought of them
--"I know you better than you fake it"...these kids recognized the 'fake' people in their age group, and knew who was genuinely themselves, and that's who they hung around with
faster than we thought we'd go"
Youth is a fucking ride. It's awesome. But it's a short one and it's over before we know it, so enjoy it before ya get whisked away into the fuck-all nowhereness of life.
Most kids have spent a summer (june?) by a lake, and who hasnt skipped a few stones?
"We were sure we'd never see an end
to it all"
Looking back on youth and realizing how great it was.
"The street heats the urgency of sound"
Live now!