Текст песни Younger Than Me - Elastic No-No Band

Some people fear losing their hair
That's not me, though I've lost my share
Some people fear death from cancer
And though I wouldn't like that, it wouldn't be my answer

You wanna know what scares me?
You wanna know what really scares me?
You wanna know what scares me?
Well, here goes

People younger than me, they really scare me
People younger than me, they really scare me
People younger than me, they really scare me to death

This eighteen-year-old kid, she says to me
"I hear you like Johnny Cash, I like Johnny Cash as well"
So I smile and I'm like, "Oh man, yeah that's great, he's great
Do you know that song he does called 'The Long Black Veil?' "
And she thinks for a second and she's like, "No
I don't know that one
But I'm quite fond of his one Jesus ode"
So I think for a minute and I'm like
"You mean, 'Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?' "
She says, "No, I mean 'Personal Jesus.' "
"But that's a song by Depeche Mode"
I say, and then she says
"Who's Depeche Mode?"

People younger than me, they really scare me
People younger than me, they really scare me
People younger than me, they really scare me to death

So the other day
In my last apartment, I came home
And my roommate was watching MTV with his girlfriend
And they're
You know, they're both the same age as me
So they don't scare me to death or anything
But, as I said, they were watching MTV and that's the point
But the point isn't what you think it's going to be
Which is, "Oh! They don't show videos on MTV anymore"
Even though that's true
And I guess
I am old enough to remember when they did show videos on MTV
Like I remember that one Toadies video
"Do you wanna die?"
And I remember that I learned the phrase grunge music by watching MTV
I tuned in one day and they were having the Smells Like Grunge countdown
And of course number one was the Nirvana song
That they ripped the title of their countdown off of
Not a hard choice there
And, uh, what was the point?
Oh yes, my roommate and his girlfriend are watching MTV
And they're watching this show called My Super Sweet Sixteen
Which, I don't know if you've ever seen it
But it's this reality show
Where these extremely wealthy teenagers
Are rewarded by their extremely wealthy parents
For being able to survive sixteen years
By getting, like, really expensive gifts
Of like sports cars and their own islands in the Pacific
And they get these extravagant parties
And basically it's thirty minutes of watching rich people shop
And like I got this really old person thought
As I was watching about five minutes of it
And I was like "What is this doing to the youth of America?"
And normally, I don't bother myself with the youth of America
But I was thinking "What is this doing to the youth of America?"
Because, you know in my day, we had Beavis and Butthead
And, you know, Beavis and Butthead might get you to burn down a building
But it was probably full of asbestos and needed to go anyway
So it was really a public service, Beavis and Butthead was
But this shit with the consumerism and wanting to consume
That seemed pretty fucking harmful
And you could say, like, "Well a lot of people watch that show
To make fun of those people, not to yearn for that"
But that's not much better either
You know, you should
You shouldn't be satisfied feeling better than the people on TV
You should strive to be better than the people that make TV
You know, create your images and get them out there
Or something

Now I know what you're thinking
Where's the next verse?
Well, if you can figure out a way to distill what I just said
Into four or five lines
And make some of them rhyme
Let me know

Some people fear losing their grip
Realizing they're no longer hip
Some people fear becoming irrelevant
As rare as the dodo or the great pink elephant

But you know what scares me?
You wanna know what really scares me?
You wanna know what scares me?
I think you know

People younger than me, they really scare me
People younger than me, they really scare me
People younger than me, they really scare me to death