Youth Culture. One. | Page 44

Pity the fates of young fellows

Too long in bed with no sleep

With their complex romantic attachments

All look on their sorrows and weep

They don't get a moment's reflection

There's always a crowd in their eye

Pity the plight of young fellows

Regard all their worries and cry

Their Christian mothers were lazy perhaps

Leaving it up to the school

Where the moral perspective is hazy perhaps

And the climate oppressively cruel

Give me one acre of cellos

Pitched at some distant regret

Pity the fate of young fellows

And their anxious attempts to forget

-John Cooper Clarke