Verse 1:
My father is a doctor
He's a family man
My mother works for charity whenever she can
They both could clean Americans who abide by the law
They both stick up for liberty they both support the world
My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
For summers in summer camp
And winters in the town
My future in the system was talked about in camp
And I have it up for music and free electric band
Verse 2:
I went to school in hand washed shirts and neatly ironed hair
And our school was newly built and filled with (*) and the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep
And they (*) the years of many (*) to go to sleep
So my father organised for me the college in the east
But I went to California for the sunshine and the beach
My parents and my lectures could never understand
Why I gave it up for music and a free electric band
Verse 3:
Well they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
Just give me bread and water
Put a guitar in my hand
Cause I all I need is music and a free electric band
Verse 4:
My father sent me money and I spent it pretty fast
On a girl (*) in a social science class
Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know
And (*) and morals began to show
She wanted to get married even though she never said
And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
She settled for surbibia and a little matron man
So I gave her up for music and a free electronic band
Woo free electronic band
Free electric band
Free electric band
Free electric band
Free electric band