The Kids Are Still Alright Lyrics

There's a hole in the sidewalk

Where there used to be a pay phone

Next to a nicotine tar pit

That keeps spitting out the bare bones

Of the panthers and the playboys

Who used to rule the west coast

Just jealous museum relics

Cryin 'bout the new noise

Dancing' round the maypole

Same as it ever was

Youth swallowing the young

Don't you get it

That you're only supposed to get it

Once it's too late

That you only live through it just once

That same thing

Mirror ball spinning on

Like it does

Hey the kids are still alright

Still chasin' midnight

Still running out of time

Hey the kids are still alright

Still got them airtight alibis

Still out back getting high

Kids are still alright

It's all moving faster

Than it says on your doomsday clock

You used to be the Saturday earthquake

Now your Tuesday's aftershock

Tomorrow night's still gonna happen

No one cares if you're there or not

No one cares if you can walk on water

No one cares if you're better off

Same as it ever was

Youth swallowing the young

Same as it ever was

A little paralyzed by convenience

Everyone's a real genius

At the tap of a fingertip

I don't need these holy trinkets

I just stare into the bandwidth

And I know that I exist

Watch last year's gods get dragged to the guillotine

I just thought that there'd be

More kicking and screaming

Seems it always comes down to this

You're either get out or you get in

You're out on the road or you're parked in the ditch

You're the end of the joke or you get the gist

Just having a hard time telling which is which

Hey it's alright, it's alright, it's alright

Kids are still alright

Hey it's alright, it's alright, it's alright

Kids are still alright