Blank Generation

By Richard Hell

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I was sayin', "Let me out of here", before I was

Even born, it's such a gamble when you get a face

It's fascinatin' to observe what the mirror does

But when I dine, it's for the wall that I set a place

I belong to the blank generation and

I can take it or leave it each time

I belong to the [unverified] generation but

I can take it or leave it each time

Triangles were fallin' at the window as the doctor cursed

He was a cartoon long forsaken by the public eye

The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first

The doctor grabbed my throat and yelled, "God's consolation prize"

I belong to the blank generation and

I can take it or leave it each time

I belong to the [unverified] generation but

I can take it or leave it each time

To hold the TV to my lips, the air so packed with cash

Then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in the vacant lot

To lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks

And watch beneath the eyelids every passing dot

I belong to the blank generation and

I can take it or leave it each time

I belong to the [unverified] generation but

I can take it or leave it each time

I belong to the blank generation and

I can take it or leave it each time

I belong to the [unverified] generation but

I can take it or leave it each time