The antique people are down in the dungeons   Run by machines and afraid of the tax   Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes   Hauling their hearts around circular tracks   Pretending forever their masquerade towers   Are not really riddled with widening cracks   And I wave goodbye to iron   And smile hello to the air       O the new children dance ------ I am young   All around the balloons ------ I will live   Swaying by chance ------ I am strong   To the breeze from the moon ------ I can give   Painting the sky ------ You the strange   With the colors of sun ------ Seed of day   Freely they fly ------ Feel the change   As all become one ------ Know the Way       The velocity addicts explode on the highways   Ignoring the journey and moving so fast   Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe   They run from the cops of the skeleton past   Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger       Into nowhere at all and they look up aghast   And I wave goodbye to speed   And smile hello to a rose       O the new children play ------ I am young   Under the juniper trees ------ I will live   Sky blue or gray ------ I am strong   They continue at ease ------ I can give   Moving so slow ------ You the strange   That serenely they can ------ Seed of day   Gracefully grow ------ Feel the change   And yes still understand ------ Know the Way       The king and the queen in their castle of billboards   Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind   All their possessions and transient treasures   As they go to worship the electronic shrine   On which is playing the late late commercial   In that hollowest house of the opulent blind   And I wave goodbye to Mammon   And smile hello to a stream       O the new children buy ------ I am young   All the world for a song ------ I will live   Without a dime ------ I am strong   To which they belong ------ I can give   Nobody owns ------ You the strange   Anything anywhere ------ Seed of day   Everyone's grown ------ Feel the change   Up so big they can share ------ Know the Way       The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage   And shatter their audience with submachine guns   And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns   Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons   While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"   And Love the Magician disappears in the fun   And I wave goodbye to murder   And smile hello to the rain       O the new children can't ------ I am young   Tell a foe from a friend ------ I will live   Quick to enchant ------ I am strong   And so glad to extend ------ I can give   Handfuls of dawn ------ You the strange   To kaleidoscope men ------ Seed of day   Come from beyond ------ Feel the change   The Great Wall of Skin ------ Know the Way       The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen   Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives   And the men who aren't men leave the women alone   See them all faking love on a bed made of knives   Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies   And in secret divorce they will never survive   And I wave goodbye to ashes   And smile hello to a girl       O the new children kiss ------ I am young   They are so proud to learn ------ I will live   Womanwood bliss ------ I am strong   And the manfire that burns ------ I can give   Knowing no fear ------ You the strange   They take off their clothes ------ Seed of day   Honest and clear ------ Feel the change   As a river that flows ------ Know the Way       The antique people are fading out slowly   Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide   Godless and sexless directionless loons   Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide   They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily   The new children will live for the elders have died   And I wave goodbye to America   And smile hello to the world