It was so much easier
when we just had Elvis
and Walter Cronkite
we knew who could sing
and we got the news right
Yes life was better back then
we had a dining room and a den
and we didn’t have a garage full of stuff
and we threw our trash off a bluff
and our sink holes were full of cars
and it never made the news
and we didn’t give a damn about Mars
and fancy shoes
And Aunt Marie fixed
potatoes and pinto beans
and there were these new things called
blue jeans
Oh all the fields are big now and the farmers are gone
Oh what price we paid for our fancy homes
and they took our trash with a big giant hand
when the suburbs swallowed the sons of the land
Jackson