The Free Electric Band

My father is a doctor, he's a family man
 My mother works for charity whenever she can
 And they're both good clean Americans who abide by the law
 And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war
 My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
 For summers in a summer camp and winters in the town
 My future in the system was talked about and planned
 But I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band
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 I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
 And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
 And the teachers taught us values that we had to learn to keep
 And they'd clip the ear of any idle kid who went to sleep
 Then my father organised for me a college in the east
 But I went to California, the sunshine and the beach
 My parents and my lecturers could never understand
 Why I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band
 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 all I need is music and The Free Electric Band
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 My father sent me money and I spent it very fast
 On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class
 Yes, and we learnt about her body, but her mind we didn't know
 Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show
 She wanted to get married even though she never said
 But I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
 She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
 So I gave her up for music and The Free Electric Band
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 The Free Electric Band
 The Free Electric Band
 The Free Electric Band
 The Free Electric Band
 The Free Electric Band
 The Free Electric Band
 The Free Electric Band