Rebels without a
clue
1. We were
there in the back seat 'cause we couldn't go home,
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we were too young
to pay the rent.
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I was working on the mechanics of the
cross-your-heart bra,
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LBJ was the president.
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My pal Travis asked me the next day he said,
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"Was it hard to score?"
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I lied to him and said, "It was a
snap!"
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And we laughed as we walked out the door.
We were rebels
without a clue,
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didn't know where
to go or what to do.
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And the
whole generation was feeling it, too,
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we
were rebels without a clue.
2. Buddy
Holly was gone and we drank all night long,
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and listened to
his songs.
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Where do you go in the summer of your
junior year,
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to learn the
difference between right and wrong?
Me and the boys
just wanted some girls,
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but we were scared
to try a little tenderness,
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so we souped up our cars and fought in the bars,
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like that was gonna get us kissed.
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Now we got station wagons, now we got kids,
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still we have no
idea why we did what we did.
3. Now we
laugh at the predjudicism and we laugh at the punks,
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and the business
men who have fried.
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And we go around bettin'
things would've been a lot different,
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if James Dean and
Elvis hadn't died.
Travis called me up the other day he said,
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"Remember that summer at the lake,
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when we broke
every rule, said the hell with school,
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'cause we had had all we could take?"