Sub-Culture Swing Lyrics

When I was so much younger

Not so long ago

I looked around and decided I didn't fit society's mold

So I went searching for a place to belong

Where I didn't feel so wrong

Then I met some people who seemed to be like me

With their peace and love and desire to being free

So I tie-dyed my shirts, put beads in my hair

Went all the way

I became a hippy that day

But I couldn't eat granola and lay down in the hay

Letting the world around me waste away, oh no

Didn't want their debt, their drugs, their weak-ass code

Any of that shit

So I said fuck off

So I got a little older

Just trying to tune in

To something I could believe in

So I started listening to industrial goth

Dressed all in black

Hanging out in cemeteries

Thought I would never look back

Then I met some people

Fellow children of the night

We banded together ready for society's fight

Wearing makeup and trench coats

Just being a freak all the way

I became a goth that day

But I couldn't be that pretentious or spiteful

Didn't' care about appearances of being beautiful

Didn't want their style, their bias, their self-importance

Any of that shit

So I said fuck off

Still I swore

I'd find my own scene

I wanted that more than anything

Found a group that seemed to have it all

My punkrock family that wouldn't fall

Got a mohawk and patches on my jeans

Lived by ideals and ethics within my means

Listened to some music

Made some friends

I'm a punk rocker

My search was at an end

Whoa

But I was wrong again

They were all the same

At each others throats playing the same popularity game

Didn't want their uniform

Their attitudes or double standards

Any of that shit

So I said fuck off

We have the power to be who we be

To make the kind of world that we wanna see

So come on get out of your pretty little box

I don't care if you're a punk, hick, hippy, or goth

I just want me to be me, and you to be you

And us to be free

From the government and media that's so shallow

And the diatribe that we just won't swallow

The dissent that we sew

Against the system that keeps us

Keeps us from running this whole show