Spoiled Generation (2022 Remaster) Lyrics

She looks for her pillow left ditched in the desert

He shouts loud, "Get in now! I'll buy you a new one."

She leaves out of courtesy thinking this phase will pass

She knows he hasn't got that much cash

Driving for hours sitting so close together

He asks her the question, "Why is it you never smile?"

She answers, "No reason." Then turns her head away

As tears come down from her eyes.

Miles away at a distant gas station

Out bumming a quarter from a stall

She sneaks around the corner, with scared shaky fingers

And dials a homeward call

Speechless she pauses as a caring voice answers

"Is it you Angel? Are you okay?" Drops straight to her heart

But a hand from behind her clicks down the receiver

Letting her know she's been caught

Her mother and father are missing a daughter

How could our Angel leave us, she was only 19

A Spoiled Generation, adults with no growing pains

Just sharing the nest

Raised to honest but no longer a virgin

She tells him the whole story and almost gets beat

I knew he was no good

She didn't listen, but then again why should she listen to me

Why should she listen to me

Well I just play music

I write songs and sing them

She thinks I'm so foolish, I feel differently

If I go straight to hell, she'll be there just as well

Playing in the fire with me

Her folks used to hate to see us together

But that need to be taken away just poured from her eyes

Maybe I was a threat with my hair and my guitar

But now they apologize

Now they apologize

They're so far away now and I hear she's a kept woman

Four years have passed, yeah but when we all drink

We remember our sweethearts

How somebody steals them away from all but our memory

The aches and the pains of this Spoiled Generation

Our lovers are like parents and our parents are like friends

With nowhere to guide us

Yeah but it don't really matter

Until we're out on our own

Raising up kids in a home

Spoiling them then moving them along

Never to be left alone