Take my advice   Don't listen to me   It ain't paradise   But it used to be   There was a time   When the river was wide   And the water came running down   To the rising tide   But the wooden ships   Were just a hippie dream   Just a hippie dream.      Don't bat an eye   Don't waste a word   Don't mention nothin'   That could go unheard   'cause the tie-dye sails   Are the screamin' sheets   And the dusty trail   Leads to blood in the streets   And the wooden ships   Are a hippie dream   Capsized in excess   If you know what I mean.      Just because it's over for you   Don't mean it's over for me   It's a victory for the heart   Every time the music starts   So please don't kill the machine   Don't kill the machine   Don't kill the machine.      Another flower child goes to seed   In an ether-filled room of meat-hooks   It's so ugly   So ugly.