They say we've been   Goin' down and goin' down   Been travelin' on the road to nowhere   Goin' down, round and round   Tryin' to get to the place where we started      When I was just a boy   At four years old, thought the world was joy   As a kid I'd play, just create the day   As I saw it my way      But time blows by   And strips us to the bone   Poisoned winds of woe   Teach us that we're   Alone in this world   We learned to see all the corruption and   All its hate, all its pain, so   A toast to the end of our innocence   A toast to our blank generation      They say we've been   Goin' down and goin' down   Been travelin' on the road to nowhere   Goin' down, round and round   Tryin' to get to the place where we started      When I was seventeen   Realizin' the world wasn't what she seemed   Underneath the night, San Francisco sky   I would see, too clearly      But time blows by   And strips us to the bone   Poisoned winds of woe   Teach us that we're   Alone in this world   We learned to take all the corruption and   All its hate, all its pain, so   A toast to the end of our innocence   A toast to our blank generation      So here's to our collagen lips   And saline tits   To our growth hormones   And antibiotics   To the Hollywood world   We made out of Barbie doll hearts   After we melted them down   So we could make our new start   Here's to a generation   Scared and always wonderin' why   Instead of playing doctor   We play shoot each other and die   Instead of ring around the rosie   We play hide from mommy   'Cause mommy's been drinking again   And we don't want to get beat   Even with all the tattoos   And all the cheap thrills   There's still a hole inside of us   That may not ever get filled   So we give back a little bit   Of what the world's given us   Give it back a bit   An' never give it a fuck      Here's to the justice never dealt   To innocent, proven guilty   Here's to bad cop retreat   When real cops are on the street   Here's to the rat-tat-tat   An' judgin' your life is shattered   Here's to gimme me your cash   Or your brains is gettin' splattered   Here's to mad cow disease   And all that yummy MSG   Here's to Mickey D's serving   All those mutant chickadees   This is the toast to celebrate   The end of our innocence   This is the toast to celebrate   How we've become desensitized   If life is to grow, grow, some life must die      While we learned to take all the   Corruption and greed   All its hate, all its pain, so   A toast to the end of our innocence   Our generation   We now embrace all the corruption   And we, all its hate, all it's greed, so   A toast to the end of our innocence   Our blank generation   Our blank generation   Our blank generation