| You had the cold war I have the war on terrorism You had Vietnam I have Afganistan And Iran and Iraq and Kuwat and Saudi Arabia I stayed up past my bed tome to see the Berlin wall come down And that was the sign of peace for my generation I tied yellow ribbons in 1990 and again 12 years later They tell me we don't appreciate Pearl Harbor But i watched open mouthed in my towel the towers come down There was Hitler and the Third Reich Now there's Bin Ladin and Al Quada Instead of air raid drills I watch my mail for anthrax And my rasches for small pox They say my generation doesn't understand what it all means I say there generation doesn't know a life time with out hope |
| now and then |