[Verse 1]

What happened to our roots, did we forget them?

What happened to our ancestors, did we reject them?

What's with all this bullshit, that we're shoving down our mouths

Did we forget what punk rock was all about?

[Chorus]

This is the sound of a new generation

So raise a fist up in the air

If you're coming along

If you're tired of all the fakers

Then cut them all down

And sing this song

[Verse 2]

What’s with all these adults trying to tell us how it’s done?

"Don't trust over thirty", that's rule number one

It seems like everyone's trying to make us disappear

If we scream loud enough, maybe someone will hear

[Chorus]

This is the sound of a new generation

So raise a fist up in the air

If you're coming along

If you're tired of all the fakers

Then cut them all down

And sing this song

[Spoken Bridge]

And now, for a lesson in punk rock history

It all started in the '70s where bands basically said:

"Fuck you!"

To the mainstream acts at the time and decided to rebel with a brand new sound

That melted the ears of anyone above the age of thirty

This continued through the 1990s where punk itself started to bleed into the mainstream

But still carried the same messages

Meanwhile, Japan had a punk rock rise of its own in the '90s

With “Seishun Punk” spawning a whole subculture of its own

Fast forward to today and punk is now a needle in a haystack

With the modern conception by the masses being a clusterfuck of misconceptions, definitions, and whatever Machine Gun Kelly is doing

So, ladies and gentlemen, I come to you with a proposal:

We must take back punk rock with force and bring back its meaning:

A big middle finger to the mainstream that wants to tell us what to say, what to do, and how to sound

So, with that said...

[Chorus]

This is the sound of a new generation

So raise a fist up in the air

If you're coming along

If you're tired of all the fakers

Then cut them all down

And sing this song

This is the sound of a new generation

So raise a fist up in the air

If you're coming along

If you're tired of all the fakers

Then cut them all down

And sing this song