Just about the most ludicrous lyrics I have ever heard! Where I came from (near London) people who had flowers in their hair and talked about peace and love were called hippies, that was 1967. Punk rock was about 10 years later when I was a teenager; they were supposed to be rude and offensive, some of the early punks used swastikas mostly to shock people but some were followers of neo-nazi movements definitely not peace and love. Anyway there was much more poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and a lot of unpleasantness of all kinds and the idea that there was some sort of golden age in the past ......... the only good bit of this song is not everyone had to have a car and if you did it was just to get from A to B not a status symbol.
Just about the most ludicrous lyrics I have ever heard! Where I came from (near London) people who had flowers in their hair and talked about peace and love were called hippies, that was 1967. Punk rock was about 10 years later when I was a teenager; they were supposed to be rude and offensive, some of the early punks used swastikas mostly to shock people but some were followers of neo-nazi movements definitely not peace and love. Anyway there was much more poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and a lot of unpleasantness of all kinds and the idea that there was some sort of golden age in the past ......... the only good bit of this song is not everyone had to have a car and if you did it was just to get from A to B not a status symbol.