Younger Generation - 2003 Remaster

Why must every generation think their folks are square?
 And no matter where their heads are they know Mom's ain't there
 Cause I swore when I was small that I'd remember when
 I knew what's wrong with them that I was smaller than
 Determined to remember all the cardinal rules
 Like sun showers are legal grounds for cuttin' school
 I know I have forgotten maybe one or two
 And I hope that I recall them all before the baby's due
 And I know he'll have a question or two
 Like "Hey pop, can I go ride my Zoom?
 It goes two hundred miles per hour suspended on balloons
 And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue
 And imagine frothin' dragons while you sit and wreck your lungs?"
 And I must be permissive, understanding of the younger generation
 And then I'll know that all I've learned my kid assumes
 And all my deepest worries must be his cartoons
 And still I'll try to tell him all the things I've done
 Relating to what he can do when he becomes a man
 And still he'll stick his fingers in the fan
 And "Hey pop, my girlfriend's only three
 She's got her own videophone and she's a-takin' LSD
 And now that we're best friends she wants to give a bit to me
 And what's the matter Daddy, how come you're turnin' green
 Can it be that you can't live up to your dreams?"