Jeunesse d'Orée

The youth are voting with their feet
Such a shame that the dance-beat
Gets so complicated
Pretty, pretty it seems
On second glance, the look is overrated
In the hot-house there's a magic potion
Timeless motion
Now and again now lasts forever
Jeunesse doree gilding the lily of pleasure

Oh, the youth are voting with their clothes
Such a shame that the hip pose
Is so overstated
(Round and round) round and round it goes
How careless the rapture that's calculated
In the picture lost devotion
Waveless ocean
Time and again
Style goes out of fashion
Jeunesse doree taking the heat out of passion

Look at the kid with the golden touch
Check out the stony expression
Look at the man with the golden arm
And the sensational lesson
Follow-my-leader's a game we can play
Till we swallow the tail without thinking
Catch the hook, toe the line
Never mind that we're sinking! (Sinking, sinking, sinking!)

The youth are voting themselves in
But the wheel takes a fresh spin
And they find tomorrow
Gaudy garments (Gaudy garments, gaudy garments)
Gaudy garments worn thin
All at best rent and the worst are borrowed
(And the worst are borrowed)
Closing orders, fading nation
Dissipation
Time and again, time's unforgiving
Jeunesse doree gilding the lily of living
Now and again, now and forever
Jeunesse doree gilding the lily of pleasure

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