Gen-X Cops

Album: Only God Was Above Us (2024)
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  • Blacken the sky and sharpen the axe
    Forever cursed to live unrelaxed
    We make no bones, a house is not a home
    And a home is nowhere we can stay

    Dodged the draft, but can't dodge the war
    Forever cursed to live insecure
    The curtain drops, a gang of Gen X cops assembles
    Trembling before our human nature

    It wasn't built for me
    It's your academy
    But in that time, you taught me how to see
    Each generation makes its own apology

    Welcome back, my oldest friend
    Are you cursed to depart again?
    Your ways and means, eternally obscene
    And always looking for obscenity and hatred

    It wasn't built for me
    It's your academy
    But in my time, you taught me how to see
    Each generation makes its own apology

    It wasn't built for me
    It's your academy
    But in my time, you taught me how to see
    Each generation makes its own apology
    It's by design and consequentially
    Each generation makes its own apology Writer/s: Chris Thompson, Ezra Koenig
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Waji from LaGenX cops is simply an example used to show how each generation makes the same mistakes. Could have easily used baby boomers or Millennials but they aren’t the sandwich generation. BTW, Gen Xers are too young to know anything about Vietnam aside from what movies or baby boomers had to say.
  • Mike from MassachusettsVietnam was a "defining conflict" for baby boomers not gen x. The draft ended in 1974.
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