Harry Chapin - Basic Protest Song lyrics

So you're 13 and there's a
Silent scream out there and you can hear it
Just your basic protest song

Now you're 16 and there's a danger in the air
And you can see it
Just your basic protest song

Turnin' 20 and it's around you everywhere
And you can feel it
Just your basic protest song

Now your 30 and it's to late now to care
And you can taste it
Just your basic protest song

Well, I just turned 13 don't
Know what I wanna be
I don't have much experience but I'll
Tell you what I see
When I hear the record sing and baby
Baby I love you it seems to me we all got
So much lovin left to do

And at 16 I don't know to much but
I'll tell you what I do know
If you do not give a damn
I'll tell you where to go
There is something truly crazy
With our patriotic song
We know to wave the flag round
The week begins a strong

So you're 13 and there's a
Silent scream out there and you can hear it
Just your basic protest song

Now you're 16 and there's a danger in the air
And you can see it
Just your basic protest song

Turnin' 20 and it's around you everywhere
And you can feel it
Just your basic protest song

Now your 30 and it's to late now to care
And you can taste it
Just your basic protest song

Oh now that I am 20 got
My first full time job
My boss, upstanding citizen
Finds legal ways to rob
They say forget what you believe
Forget what you have seen
But I know I lost the best of
Me when I forgot my dreams

I'm passin' on through 30 got
Two kids of my own got a wife, house, a car
And dog but still I am alone
And I'm tired of only selling cause
It's myself that I sell
I'm glad of always buying cause
I can't buy it ourselves

I know none of us is perfect
I can see myself to well
If we can't push for paradise
We're settled in for hell

So you're 13 and there's a
Silent scream out there and you can hear it
Just your basic protest song

Now you're 16 and there's a danger in the air
And you can see it
Just your basic protest song

Turnin' 20 and it's around you everywhere
And you can feel it
Just your basic protest song

Now your 30 and it's to late now to care
And you can taste it
Just your basic protest song