You Can't Buy Happiness

People Are Coming To Shows On The Strength Of One Song. I Guess That's The Way It Goes.

My Lyrics Are A Big Pile Of Contradictions.

My Generation's Apathy. I'm Disgusted With It. I'm Disgusted With My Own Apathy Too, For Being Spineless And Not Always Standing Up Against Racism, Sexism And All Those Other -isms The Counterculture Has Been Whining About For Years.

All My Life, I Never Believed Most Things I Read In History Books And A Lot Of Things I Learned In School. But Now I've Found I Don't Have The Right To Make A Judgment On Someone Based On Something I've Read. I Don't Have The Right To Judge Anything. That's The Lesson I've Learned

I Remember Feeling Ashamed, For Some Reason. I Was Ashamed Of My Parents. I Couldn't Face Some Of My Friends At School Anymore, Because I Desperately Wanted To Have The Classic, You Know, Typical Family. Mother, Father. I Wanted That Security, So I Resented My Parents For Quite A Few Years Because Of That.