Jeff Zarling - Generation X

We turn the dial beneath the blanket
Searching stations through the night
Waiting for the perfect song
To rise above the waves of white
A finger resting on the record button
Hoping no one spoke too soon
We caught our dreams on plastic tape
Inside a quiet bedroom
The telephone went round in circles
Every number took its tongue
And every voice meant something more
When someone stayed upon the line
We learned that waiting had a meaning
We learned that distance made things real
Nothing came without a journey
Nothing vanished with a tick
We are generation
X The answer no one could predict born between the past and future with an unknown name to fit we are generation x
Raised on rhythm tape and text they called us undefined for f but we became what happened next the television filled
The living room with colors from another place a rented movie the evening, rewound before we change the theme
We knew the sound of turning pages, we knew the weight of photographs, a moment lived inside a picture, not
Disappearing quite so fast
We rode our bicycles till sunset, no location on a screen
The world was wider than a window and every road was still unseen
We learned to fall without an audience, to make mistakes and rise again
We carry questions without answers and found the strength to face the end we are generation x the answer no one could
Predict born between the past and future with an unknown name to fit we are generation x raised on rhythm tape and
Text they called us undefined forever, but we became what happened next
Generation X
We were never just a letter
Generation X
We were learning to remember
We watched the machines become companions, watched the wires leave the wall from vinyl grooves to satellites we lived
The changing of it all we knew a life before connection when silence did not mean goodbye when friendships lived
Beyond the signal and stars were still inside the sky we were children of transition with one foot planted in change
Final ones who knew the old world first to turn the future's page
We had less but we imagined more
We waited outside every door
We made our music, made our way and carried yesterday into today
We know the value of a promise
We know the cost of starting new
The world became a little faster, but we remember what was true
A radio glowing in the darkness
A cassette turning through the night
A rotary phone beside the doorway
A generation learning life
They gave us
X because they wondered who we were and what came next
Now the answer stands before them
We are Generation X
We are Generation X
The answer no one could predict
Born between the past and future with an unknown name to fit
We are Generation X
Every scar and every step
We cross the bridge from then to now and we are standing stronger yet
We are generation
X, not a large heart in a digital age
We carried history in our hands and turned the future stage
Generation X
We were never just a letter
Generation X
Still becoming still together generation
X, from the radio to the internet generation
X, the world will never forget