We Watched the 1960's on TV

We watched the 1960's on TV

 

While James Brown was trying to calm

Washington DC down

I was sitting with my friends by the side

Of the road counting the trucks

As they drove through town

 

We played another game that day

We each counted the cars that had some one

Inside that we knew

As you have guessed we knew all but a few

 

America was changing and the war in

Viet Nam was raging and the radio was

Playing Bob Dylan and the Beatles and

Stones and we didn't even try to make sense of it all

 

The 60's were happening some place far away

A place with hippies and people with money

A place where if you were black you were discounted

Up front and where women were tired of men

And took off their bras and waved them over their

Heads to show they were free

We paid attention to this

 

The 60's were making the front pages and some

Of the clever ones around us knew the story

But most people were like me and couldn't really

Pay attention to much more than James Bond,

Hit records and trying to get the attention of the girl

Who sat next to you and ask her to tell you a story

About how she loved you and thought you were such a thrill

 

Yes the 60's were happening and later I understood that

These were the best days that were ever lived by man

I know you would argue that there were other great times

But the 6o's were the last time humanity rose up

And tried to defend itself from the juggernaut of it all

 

We watched the 1960's on TV and we sat with our parents

And watched it all just as dumbfounded as they were

By the changes and all

We watched the 1960's on TV and wondered what it meant

To be alive and dealing with it all

What position to take or do you just learn to live with it all