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 back yard by the fence
 He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
 He get's out there in the twilight zone
 Sometimes when it just don't make no sense
 He gets off on country music
 'Cause disco left him cold
 And 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
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 Yeah, he ain't trying to change nobody
 He's just trying real hard to adjust