歌曲名 The Free Electric Band

歌手名 Albert Hammond

作曲：Michael Hazelwood/Albert Hammond

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

And 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 summer camp

And winters in the tow

My future in the system

Was talked about and planned

But I gave it up for music

And the free electric band

I went to school in hand-washed shirts

With neatly ordered 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 he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep

Then my father organized for me a college in the east

But I went to California

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

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

'Cause all I need is music

And the free electric band

My father sent me money

And I spent it very fast

On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class

Yes and we learnt about her body

But her mind we didn't know

Until deep rooted attitudes

And morals began to show

She wanted to get married

Even though she never said

But I knew her well enough by

Now to see inside her head

She'd settle for suburbia

And a little patch of land

So I gave her up for music

And the free electric band

The free electric band

The free electric band

The free electric band

The free electric band

The free electric band

The free electric band