As A Teen, I Am Now

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Raizel | 1953 - | Canadian
Written: 1969

As a teen, I am now
Taking a stand.
On the over done question at hand:
"What is wrong with today's kids"?

Listen parents, singles too --
I ask you, were you not once teenage too?

What has changed is not ourselves
But the times with which we live.
Today is nineteen hundred and sixty-nine
not,
Nineteen hundred and forty-nine.
Things as bobby socks and
lots of rouge just isn't our thing
as it was with you.
I ask to you, for both our sakes,
take a look in the mirror
tonight.

See if you see what you saw before
Some twenty odd years ago.
NO! And neither will we
When we reach forty-three.
Don't complain, It's just a fad
Tomorrow it will soon be past.
And leave its memories,
strong and fast.