New Lost Generation

Needles, pills, amphetamines

The ones my age numb themselves with things like these

New lost generation hundred years removed

I think Ernest might have known what I mean

Urban diaspora fling my kin to the wind

Find myself in these hills of the west

Unholy war there are no heroes anymore

And I submit that mother never knew best

All the old dreams are dead

Yeah I think that's what she said

Though I admit I could barely hear through the screams

Michigan is burning, teach me all that needs unlearning

Who can tell me now what a simple thing means

New dead forest under full moon

Blackened trees and the smell of disease

Paranoia settles in as I sink into a sin

Wonder has it come time to leave

Love me now don't leave me later

Oh darlin as if I ever could

I was a stranger there, still I am stranger here

Should have known it'd never come to no good

All the old dreams are dead

Yeah I think that's what she said

Though I admit I could barely hear through the screams

Michigan is burning, teach me all that needs unlearning

Who can tell me now what a simple thing means