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"Wait a minute, wait a minute son
Don't do all the dumb things I have done
Let me save you some time let me give you a break."
But I said "No I wanna make my own mistakes"
And I do.

In my teenage years you could not make me admit
That my parents existed or that they ever did
Like the time she and I were lying on the floor
We were doing things I had never done before
When all of a sudden there's a light in the room
And they were home early they were home too soon, they said

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In the summer in the woods me and my friends got loose
On the wine I made from Welch's grape juice
It was reddish brown ooze, it bubbled in the cup
We all drank a quart and then we all threw up
And though most of us were better by the next day
My friend Jimmy heard his old man say

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Some of us went to work, some went on in school
Sometimes we must have acted like such total fools
We were following gurus and reading funny books
Talkin' mantras and chakras and getting funny looks
At the Thanksgiving dinner everybody's set to eat
And we said "it's really wrong to eat meat," and they said

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Now we're growing older and we've got wedding rings
We've got little babies, we've got lots of other things
And we still want our children to be better than us
Things have not changed all that much
'Cause folks will always whisper in their little boy's ear
And the child will pretend, but he does not really hear us say