Well when you're too cool for school
You've gotta play by the rules
Yeah you can call yourself a hipster
But they don't care for rock n roll
So try as you need
But they ain't easy to please
They'll drive you wild

Oh flower child of the new generation
Flower child of the new generation

I've been waking around
Wondering what in the hell
Is up with the world
And where did we go wrong
I don't need my education to see

That when you're too cool for school
You've gotta play by the rules
Yeah you can call yourself a hipster
But they don't care for rock n roll
So try as you need
But they ain't easy to please
They'll drive you wild

Oh flower child of the new generation
Flower child of the new generation

I've been stumbling around
Dazed and confused
Smoking the green to take away my blues
If you use imagination you'll see

That when you're too cool for school
You've gotta play by the rules
Yeah you can call yourself a hipster
But they don't care for rock n roll
So try as you need
But they ain't easy to please
They'll drive you wild
(Wild)

Flower child of the new generation
Flower child of the new generation

Don't need my education
To use imagination
Don't need my education
To use imagination
Don't need my education
To use imagination
Don't need my education
To use imagination