An 80s Youth (feat. Simon Godfrey, vocal)

A pop song about how red balloons Start a terrible war from a concrete room First Blood and Red Dawn showed us the way The righteous and the stoic make the bad guys pay We learned in school how democracy Would go 'round the world setting communists free While the lakes and rivers foamed in the summer sun And lawyers in their suits ruined everybody's fun Careful with that nostalgia mister It doesn't tell the whole truth The bad all seems to fade into mist here When I'm searching for meaning thinking back on my youth The flash of the 80's Blocked out the pain A decade of greed fueled by cocaine MTV fashion on a global scale With cyanide aspirin and bombs in the mail How'd we make it through An '80s youth? Got a twelve-year-old buying cigarettes While aerosol cans make a hole of regrets Young boy breaking while the rap beats play Thinks just like his dad about minorities and gays Careful what you wish for mister The bad comes with the good It's nice to reminisce about the old days But I wouldn't go back even if I could The Flash of the 80's Won't come again No rules and no reason to slow for the bends They sent us down the path we're on now Just live for the moment and we'll figure it out How'd we make it through An '80s youth?