I asked a student of higher schooling
He said he didn?t care
When I asked about the sixties
They simply said long hair
Saw a child getting programmed
Getting programmed when she wakes
And I heard a raving elder
Cursing 20 years too late
Oh how the bastards screwed me
Son, life?s too short to wait
And then the students
Of higher schooling
Hid more pills inside his plate
So I?d like to send gratitude
And thanks
To those who had the courage
To defy the mighty ranks
Send it to the students
Who waved the banners
Who held flowers up to the tanks
And to the ones who are
Still fighting
Yes all my gratitude
And all my thanks
So as you sit baked and hammered
So grateful to be dead
Saying freedom?s here to chill out
So sit and rest your head
Think of those who fought
For your right
The path you walk, they paved
And those who fought for their right
To carry until today
When it was they who fed the hungry,
Stormed the pentagon for peace
While the army rounded strangers up
made them instant police
They who made a union,
dodged the draft,
and filled the jails
And spread a message of unity
Across the nation?s rails
And said we?re destroying
The house that Man have built
Kicking the doors and pulling nails
And you have the nerve to tell me
That everyone has failed
No, you should send
Your gratitude and thanks
To those who had the courage
To defy the mighty ranks
Send it to the students
Who waved the banners
Who held flowers up to the tanks
And to the ones who are
Still fighting
Yes all my gratitude
And all my thanks
I'd like to send out a
Head, help, heart, and hand
To those who had the courage
To reach and rise and stand
Send it to the lovers
And the fighters
To those who stood up and still stand
Those who unchained their wrist
And clenched their fist
Both here and in faraway lands