The free Electric Band - Albert Hammond

Strophe) 

My father is a doctor, he´s a family man 

My mother works for charity whenever she can 

They´re both good clean Americans who abide by the law

They both stick up for liberty and they both support the war 

My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down 

For summers in a summercamp and winters in the town 

My future in the system was talked about and planned 

But I gave it up for music and the Free Electric Band 

 

Strophe) 

I went to school in handwashed shirts with neatly oiled hair 

And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air 

And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep 

And they clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep 

Till my father organised for me a college in the east 

But I went to California for the sunshine and the beach 

My parents and my lecturers could never understand 

Why I gave it up for music and the Free Electric Band 

 

Bridge) 

Well they used to sit and speculate upon their son´s career 

A lawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer 

Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand 

´Cos all I need is music and the Free Electric Band 

 

Strophe) 

My father sent me money and I spent it very fast 

On a girl I met in Berkley iin a social science class 

Yes and we learned about her body but her mind we did not know 

Until deep routed attitudes and morals began to show

She wanted to get married even though she never said 

And I know her well enough by now to see inside her head 

She´d settle for suburbia and a little patch lf land 

So I gave her up for music and the Free Electric Band 

 

Ohhh the Free Electric Band 

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