Du-du-du-dun, du-du-du-dun
Dun-dun-du-dun, dun-du-du-dun
Du-du-dun, du-du-du-du-dun
I've seen the best minds of my generation
Packed and shipped and sold
Numbers change color
As the young become old
And I can see why
But I don't know how
Thousands can bury
Their brains in the ground
Du-du-du-dun, du-du-du-dun
Dun-dun-du-dun, dun-du-du-dun
Du-du-dun, du-du-du-du-dun
Du-du-du-dun, du-du-du-dun
Dun-dun-du-dun, dun-du-du-dun
Du-du-dun, du-du-du-du-dun
I've seen the best minds of my generation
Packed and shipped and sold
(Packed and shipped and sold)
Numbers change color
As the young become old (become old)
And I can see why
(And I can see why)
But I don't know how
(But I don't know)
Thousands can bury
Their brains in the ground
Du-du-du-dun, du-du-du-dun
Dun-dun-du-dun, dun-du-du-dun
Du-du-dun, du-du-du-du-dun
Du-du-du-dun, du-du-du-dun
Dun-dun-du-dun, dun-du-du-dun
Du-du-dun, du-du-du-du-dun
Angelheaded hipsters
Burning for the ancient heavenly connection
To the starry dynamo that the machinery of night
Who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high
Sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness
Of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz
Who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes, hallucinating Arkansas
And Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of money and war
I've seen the best minds of my generation
Packed and shipped and sold
Numbers change color
As the young become old
And I can see why
But I don't know how
Thousands can bury
Their brains in the ground
And who, therefore, ran through the icy streets
Obsessed with a sudden flash