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So your 13 and there`s a silent scream out there,
And you can hear it.
Just your basic protest song.
Now your 16 and there`s a danger in the air,
And you can see it.
Just your basic protest song.
Turnin` 20 and it`s around you everywhere,
And you can feel it.
Just your basic protest song.
Now your 30 and it`s to late now to care,
And you can taste it.
Just your basic protest song
Well, I just turned 13 don`t know what I wanna be,
I don`t have much experience but I`ll tell you what I see.
When I hear the record sing and baby, baby I love you,
It seems to me we all got so much lovin left to do.
And at 16 I don`t know to much but I`ll tell you what I do know,
If you do not give a damn I`ll tell you where to go.
There is something truly crazy with our patriotic song,
We know to wave the flag round the week begins a strong.
CHORUS
Oh now that I am 20 got my first full time job,
My boss, upstanding citizen, finds legal ways to rob.
They say forget what you believe forget what you have seen,
But I know I lost the best of me when I forgot my dreams.
I`m passin` on through 30 got two kids of my own,
Got a wife, house, a car, and dog but still I am alone.
And I`m tired of only selling cause it`s myself that I sell,
I`m glad of always buying cause I can`t buy it ourselves.