When I was a Kid.
As a kid, no cell phones in our ears
Sat in circles and our lives we shared
Didn’t type, never mind the texting
Found a Playboy, but had no sexting
Twitter and tweeting were for the birds
As for chatting we had spoken words
To recall facts we used our noodles
Couldn’t use the search engine Google
Had no taxi mom taking us everywhere
We had no money but didn’t care
Played rock tunes on HIFI stereos
No batteries for transistor radios
Never ate a seedless watermelon
No three strike law for a felon
While eating melons we had to spit
I don’t know how we ever made it
We were careful not to scratch LPs
No infection of the AIDS disease
Sony’s Beta lost out to VHS
The Middle East is still a big mess
Feathered hair styles and saddleback jeans
Growing is not easy for many teens
Adults don’t understand about their needs
Control them or let them grow like weeds?
Gangster Rappers are today’s heroes
Guns stowed in their baggy clothes
Drugs bought in any small crowd
Sub-woofer bass thumping too loud.
Don’t have answers for the youth of today
Best we can do is get on our knees and pray
Life is so different than in 1975
How is our future going to survive?
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