"T-Bone" Burnett - The Sixties [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

I have a painter friend who says he actually slept with
Jacqueline Kennedy...
Or was it John Kennedy?
Maybe it was Jacqueline Bisset
At any rate, I can tell I'm starting wrong
Let me begin again

There is a new breed of man
He's got a wife and some kids
He works behind a desk
Beside a computer
He watches a lot of television
Belongs to a health club
Drinks things like Cutty and 7... whatever that is

He wears faded Levis and Gucci loafers
His hair is long and perfectly groomed
He smokes the best marijuana
Wears a gold coke spoon in his pocket
And his speech is riddled with jargon like:
Far out
Do your own thing
I hear you
Into it
Blow my mind
And freak
You know, I'm a sports freak
I'm a jazz freak
I'm a video freak

He hates accident
Never questions authority

[Chorus]
Politicians don't debate
They transcendental meditate
Stock brokers aren't in at ten
They're all strung out on heroin
Baseball players aren't so square
They've got beards and stringy hair
Car dealers don't just sell drive trains
They sometimes also deal cocaine

When he was younger and out struggling to climb the ladder
He used to fight with his wife
Or have a night out with the boys
And he'd maybe go to a bar and try to pick up some strange
If you get my drift

And after a while, he started hearing about free love
And he felt left out
And he tortured his imagination dreaming of pot parties
With those suntanned girls in halter tops with their cutoffs
Slit up to their belt loops
Then he saw a picture in Playboy of Ursula Andress
On the arm of some hippie
And that did it

He began his rebellion late
But now he's got a designer camper
And one time he even got to sleep in it with
One of those girls in the cutoffs
But it made me feel awful
Cause he had to pay her fifty dollars
And it was twenty for anybody else

[Chorus]

Here's the brave new world
On a mirror

20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
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Keep all the bad, hey
And destroy all the good
Keep all the bad, hey
And destroy all the good

Keep all the bad, destroy all the good
Keep all the bad, destroy all the good
Keep all the bad
Destroy all the good
Keep all the bad
Destroy all the good
[Repeat x2]