Lovin Spoonful - Younger Generation lyrics

Why must every generation think their folks are square And no matter where their heads are they know mom's ain't there 'Cause I swore when I was small that I'd remember when I knew what's wrong with them that I was smaller then Determined to remember all the cardinal rules Like sun showers are legal grounds for cutting school I know I have forgotten maybe one or two And I hope that I recall them all before the baby's due And I know he'll have a question or two Like "hey Pop, can I go ride my zoom It goes two hundred miles an hour suspended on balloons And can I put a droplet of this new stuff on my tongue And imagine frothing dragons while you sit and wreck your lungs" And I must be permissive, understanding of the younger generation Then I'll know that all I've learned my kid a**umes And all my deepest worries must be his cartoons And still I'll try to tell them him all the things I've done Relating to what he can do when he becomes a man And still he'll stick his fingers in the fan