Soundtrack to a Generation

The smell of trees can only be that way

On a sunny day, floating through the open window

To the cool inside where we lay side by side

How can anything we feel ever mean so much

As a summer love?

How can anything we need ever get in touch

With the meaning of

A whole life waiting, wishing suddenly

That it's going to be the real thing

Or separating, try your luck again

It's just part of the adventure

Holy cow, you do it to me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Oh wow, you're getting to me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Another tune before the light has gone

And we'll be on our way

The sounds and smells will always linger on

They're in my heart today

We feel so lucky then the world's a massive place

But we run into each other

Just one small happening an accident of fate

Or the work of co-conspirators?

But if we knew what could it do to help us now?

Holy cow, you do it to me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Anyhow, just give it to me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Oh wow, you really get me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Holy cow, you're getting to me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Years have gone on in between

But all I knew at seventeen is all I know now

Through times of joy and suffering

The music flavors everything that's all I know now

Holy cow, you do it to me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Oh wow, you really get me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Anyhow, just give it to me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Just give it, you're getting, you do it, you really got me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Just give it, you're getting, you do it, you really got me now

The soundtrack to a generation

Oh wow, you really get me now

The soundtrack to a generation