Bye-Bye Theocratic Dream
A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How the 'service' used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my heart just right
That I could make the meeting tonight
And, maybe Jehovah would be happy for a while.
But pedophilia made me shiver
With every Tower I’d deliver.
Liars on the doorstep;
I had to take one more step.
I can’t remember if I tried
To run away and try and hide,
But something touched me deep inside
The day I saw all the lies.
Sooo, Bye, bye, American Dream -
Buy a chevy-van and pioneer until you have seen -
All your youth and time and vigor and energy gone -
Waiting for the 'world to die', waiting for the world to die.
Did Freddy write the book of 'truth',
And do you have faith to waste your youth,
If his Bible tells you so?
Did you throw out your rock ’n roll,
Can Kingdom music save your soul,
And can you teach me how to preach real slow?
Well, I know that you’re evil in your heart
`cause I know of the world you're part.
You don't wear Witness shoes.
And you're not in the 'Truth'.
I was a lonely teenage pioneer
With a pink 'Youth book' and thin veneer,
And a sermon written in the rear,
Before the music died.
I started singin’,
Bye, bye, American Dream -
Buy a chevy-van and pioneer until you have seen -
All your youth and time and vigor and energy gone -
Waiting for the 'world to die', waiting for the world to die.
Now for three years we’ve been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin’ stone,
But that’s not how it used to be.
When the elder's made me kiss their ass,
And the Tower told me how to dress.
And a voice that issued not from me,
And while the kingdom-slaves were looking 'round,
The pedophiles were gaining ground.
The committee was adjourned;
No verdict was returned.
And while the 'generation' was being dismissed,
Those that left were barely missed,
And I got all the elder's pissed
The day the music died.
We were singing,
Bye, bye, American Dream -
Buy a chevy-van and pioneer until you have seen -
All your youth and time and vigor and energy gone -
Waiting for the 'world to die', waiting for the world to die.
Helter skelter in a summer love-fest.
We could never get no rest,
Eight days long and falling fast.
The 'right' hotels we had to use .
And 'apostates' to refuse,
With Bethel on the platform in a ruse.
Now the half-time air was a new release,
Kingdom growth to increase.
We all got up to pray,
Oh, but we woudl stay!
`cause the elders tried to take the field;
The rank and file refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the 'generation' died?
We started singing,
Bye, bye, American Dream -
Buy a chevy-van and pioneer until you have seen -
All your youth and time and vigor and energy gone -
Waiting for the 'world to die', waiting for the world to die.
Oh, and there we were all in one time,
A generation that would not die,
With no time left to start again.
So come on: fred be nimble, fred be quick!
Freddy started the 'pornia' shtich.
Cause oral is the devil’s only friend.
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
Speaking of this final age.
Denouncing heaven and hell
Saving us from Satan’s spell.
And as the numbers climbed out of sight
Of those that died in bloodless rite,
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing,
Bye, bye, American Dream -
Buy a chevy-van and pioneer until you have seen -
All your youth and time and vigor and energy gone -
Waiting for the 'world to die', waiting for the world to die.
If we were all in the 'truth'
I wondered where's the happy news?
And why did 'shepherds' just turn away?
I went down to the sacred store
Where I’d heard the music years before,
But reality said the music wouldn’t play.
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and apostates dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The Kingdom's spell was broken.
And the men that I'd admired most:
Of my death outside would surely boast,
And of my demise to that they toast,
The day the music died.
And they were singing,
Bye, bye, American Dream -
Buy a chevy-van and pioneer until you have seen -
All your youth and time and vigor and energy gone -
Waiting for the 'world to die', waiting for the world to die.
But I was singing,
Bye, bye, Theocratic Dream -
Bought a sports car and golf clubs, the truth I have seen -
All my youth and time and vigor and energy back -
Not waiting for the world to die. Not waiting for the world to die.