From the recording Family Portraits (Volume IV)
An upbeat song about the generation gap...and celebrating difference.
Lyrics
Prodigals
Don’t you bemoan
What you have sown
Lack of pantone
in your monochrome
home
When you know
It’s only up to you
To choose red, green and blue
Hues
Oh how I wish I was loved, loved like you
I was a good person too
If I lose my way with you
Please save me
Marching to a brand new beat
Prodigal daughters shake down the family tree
Dancing to rhythms I can’t imagine
Prodigal sons bang on a different drum
Don’t lament
Lack of friends
When you’re not content
And the money’s spent
When you know that
It’s up to you
To go
Out there and make a few
Oh how I wish I was liked, liked, like you
I need a good talking too
I wish that I could be you
A winner
Marching to a brand new beat
Prodigal daughters shake down the family tree
Dancing to rhythms I can’t imagine
Prodigal sons bang on a different drum
I will
I won’t
I will obey
I will
I won’t
Obey
Marching to a brand new beat
Prodigal daughters shake down the family tree
Dancing to rhythms I can’t imagine
Prodigal sons bang on a different drum
We are not so different, different, different
We are so different, yeah!
We are so different, different, different
We are so diffident, yeah!