Old Hippie

He turned thirty-five last Sunday

In his hair he found some gray

But he still ain't changed his lifestyle

He likes it better the old way

So he grows a little garden in the backyard by the fence

He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense

He gets out there in the twilight zone sometimes

When it just don't make no sense

Yeah, he gets off on country music

'Cause disco left him cold

Yeah, he's got young friends into new wave

But he's just too friggin' old

And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died

How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry

Yeah, he thinks of John sometimes

And he has to wonder why

'Cause he's an old hippie and he don't know what to do

Should he hang on to the old?

Should he grab on to the new?

He's an old hippie, this new life is just a bust

He ain't trying to change nobody

He's just trying real hard to adjust

He was sure back in the sixties

That everyone was hip

Then they sent him off to Vietnam

On his senior trip

And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy

And behind each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy

Now this world may change around him

But he just can't change no more

'Cause he's an old hippie and he don't know what to do

Should he hang on to the old?

Should he grab on to the new?

He's an old hippie, this new life is just a bust

He ain't trying to change nobody

He's just trying real hard to adjust

Well, he stays away a lot now

From the parties and the clubs

And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round

Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs

'Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday

And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away

Like the smoke from that torpedo

Just up and fade away

Yeah, he's an old hippie and he don't know what to do

Should he hang on to the old?

Should he grab on to the new?

He's an old hippie, this new life is just a bust

He ain't trying to change nobody

He's just trying real hard to adjust

He ain't trying to change nobody

He's just trying real hard to adjust