Older and Wiser - Teresa Brewer

Don’t like society?

Then you can’t help but see

You’ve rabid dogs upon your heels

Not feeling like the rest?

Just take another test

Gauge each emotion that you feel

Keep in mind

9 out of 10 ain’t bad

Trapped in bureaucracy

Or lost in ecstasy?

No matter which I’m sure you’ll yearn

To learn that heresy

And acts of god and me

Are machinations of this world

Keep in mind

9 out of 10 ain’t bad

What do you do when all that’s coming down on you

Says that you’re older — you’re older

And every day you see the lines on every face

And you feel older but none the wiser

Enraged by apathy cold hearts in atrophy

A generation quite disturbed

The iron curtain fell now life’s a private hell

Perpetually unperturbed

Keep in mind

9 out of 10 ain’t bad

What do you do when all that’s coming down on you

Says that you’re older — you’re older

And every day you see the lines on every face

And you feel older but none the wiser

Tell me it’s true — why don’t you

Tell me it’s true as we grow older

We should grow bolder

Tell me it’s true 'cause I would love to be like you

Older and wiser, too