Freedom 55
Work till you're old
At a job you never liked
To buy that mold
Left you empty
Full of spite
Age Bracketeers, Ad wo/men profiteers
Life insurance sharks with cancer maps
Building paranoia of growing old
Status quo and the generation gap

Creating a world where only youth seem happy
and all the rest is a slide downhill
So you can sell us your fountain of youth
patented and brand name snake oil

Makeup disease queens
Adorn soft porn fashion machines (magazines)
18 year old fake faces
"I use Oil of Olay"
And there's Si Sperling . . and the diving board
Letting you know
You're an inferior man
If your bald spot shows

Be somewhere by a certain age, a tool to measure people
Every newspaper person knows its pigeon hole value

Travel while you're young, it'll be too late when you're older
If you ain't made it by 30 you're never gonna make it
Don't bogart that Geritol, you're too old to rock
Only the good die young, 65! YOU'RE FIRED

Women's handcream addressing
Hand aging fetish
Intensive dead leaf care Madge, you're more than soaking in it
Hall of fame Bobby Hull
Hawking his ultimate toupee
And 2 minutes to Rocket Richard
For Grecian formulizing the grey

Be somewhere by a certain age, a tool to measure people
Every media person knows its pigeon hole value

Hope I die before I grow old, don't trust anyone over 30
Not married and childless by 40, what's wrong with you
I'm not the man I used to be, you're too old for that
Youth is wasted on the youth, if only I was young again

Lost youth, wild years, settle down, golden years
Newly weds, nearly deads, age and expectations
Baby boom, 30 something, middle age and crisis
Over the hill, old timer, prejudice, AGE RACISM

I WILL BREAK BARRIERS

So be a slave till 55
Wait till then to really be free
It won't take long
Till you're dead and gone
So enjoy your 17.5 years
As you let your body go
Because TV and Banks
well
They told you so

You can bloom all your life

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