Self Destructive Zones Lyrics - Brighter Than Creation's Dark - Drive By Truckers

It was 1990 give or take I don't remember 

When the news of revolution hit the air 

The girls hadn't even started taking down our posters 

When the boys started cutting off their hair 

The radio stations all decided angst was finally old enough 

It ought to have a proper home 

Dead fat or rich nobody's left to bitch 

About the goings' on in self destructive zones 

The night the practice room caught fire 

There were rumors of a dragon headed straight for Muscle Shoals 

"Stoner tries to save an amplifier" 

And it's like the dragon's side of the story is never told 

When the dream and the man and the girls hang around long enough 

To make you think it's coming true, 

It's easier to let it all die a fairy tale, 

Than admit that something bigger is passing through 

The hippies rode a wave putting smiles on faces, 

That the devil wouldn't even put a shoe 

Caught between a generation dying from its habits, 

And another thinking rock and roll was new 

Till the pawn shops were packed like a backstage party, 

Hanging full of pointy ugly cheap guitars 

And the young'uns all turned to karaoke, 

Hanging all their wishes upon disregarded stars 

My Grandaddys shotgun is locked in a closet 

And it never shot a thing that could have lived 

An old man decided that you couldn't choose your poison 

Till you're nearly old enough to vote for him 

They turned what was into something so disgusting 

Even wild dogs would disregard the bones 

Dead fat or rich nobody's left to bitch 

About the goings on in self destructive zones