From the recording Family Portraits (Volume 1)
A guitar-driven, jangly, critique of the "Baby Boomer" generation, born during the end, or just after, WWII. No generation has ever had it so good. Yet they moan the most. Their parents ("the greatest generation") were selfless...saved us from Hitler. But their children were truly useless. Very self-centered: the hippies of the sixties became the Thatcherites of the eighties; became the populists of today. Very self-involved and self-indulgent. It's the lot that gave us Trump and Brexit. The super-entitled generation. The "angry gammons"!
Lyrics
Octogenarian Sagacity
Eileen never like her name
So contracted it to "E"
She may
Have been unwittingly appropriate
‘Cos it rhymed so well with “Me! Me! Me!”
The world was her oyster, really
But it went straight to her head
Her rudeness was legendary
Overstepped all etiquette
And so
The wisdom of ancients
Handed down across the ages
Was wasted
On the children of the greatest generation
The Baby boomers
Oh Jeremy doth protest too much
It was never his fault
He says
So he might have absented himself
But really he tried his best
Anyway
Children should not be seen
And never heard
How can anyone listen to Mahler
Across a din of sextuplet verse?
And so
The wisdom of ancients
Handed down across the ages
Was wasted
On the children of the greatest generation
The babies
The children of empire
Enjoyed everything on a plate
Now claim
They deserve the future too
Their appetite un-sated
(me, myself and I)
The wisdom of ancients
Handed down across the ages
Wasted
On the children of the greatest generation
The Baby boomers