Jello Biafra)



Fake '50s clothes

Fake '50s food

Classic gas-guzzling dream cars

In more ads on the tube



Fake home-made cookies

Like mommy usedto make

Nostalgia for an age

That never existed



Do you remember

Art-deco knick-knacks and flings

The stars on the silver screen

Made you forget Hooverville



View the world

Through Time-Life and Nick at Nite

Nostalgia for an age

That never existed



All the stars had a pretty face

Children and Negroes knew their place

Blocks of happy families

With moms and dads all in love

Or are these wholesome memories

Really from reruns on TV

ANd ads in old garage sale magazines



Fake sixiteis

Mask our leaders' sleaze

Is it really a new beiginning

With confederate Kennedys?



Fake Camelot

Before everything went wrong

Nostalgia for an age

That never existed



Do you remember

The Summer of Love

Vietnam, mini-skirts and drugs

Rebellion was so much fun



Tell your own kids

Just Say No to that

Nostalgia for an age

That never existed



Turn that MTV racket off

So your folks can listen to "classic" rock

Mellow out to the same old songs

Again and again and again



Do you wonder or even care

How you wound up such a square

If ya can't stand the Big Chill

Get out of the freezer



Can't stand the Big Chill

Get out of the freezer



everything old is new again

It all comes back, jsut wait your turn

But somehow the magic's always missing



Giving up on future dreams

To dwell on rosy memories

Will make sure your best days

Are in the past



Nostalgia for an age that never existed

Nostalgia for an age that never existed



Do yo uremember

Being the first punk in your town

Outlaw #1

For the t-shirt you had on



Now you stay home

Mad at the whole scene

For refusing to freeze

In 1983



Why can't all the old bands reform

Stick to playing their old songs

It ain't punk

If it ain't just like the old days



That was then, this is now

Suckling up to the sacred cow

Can leave ya stuck in the mud

With its remains



Nostalgia for an age that never existed

Nostalgia for an age that never existed

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