The Musical Theatre Lyrics
"Young Men"

We'll loan it off to the radicals
Lend it to the left
Then we'll stick those kids
So far into debt
They can't dig out

Love the call of the creditors
Capitalize on the con
End your sentence with a period
Not an exclamation mark

And when they laugh
We'll cap it up in a bottle
And sell it back

And when they moan
We'll leave an automated
Message on the other end of the telephone

And when they cry
Computer screens will
Keep us from looking them in the eye

And it's a scheme
That's been in place
From the very beginning

It only took a little
Longer than my teenage years
It only took a little
To learn to smile and revel in
That the odds are stacked against us
Coming out from
Our teenage years

Loan it off to the radicals
Lend it to the left
Then we'll stick those kids so far into debt
They can't see out

Love the call of the creditors
Capitalize on the con
End your sentence with a period
Not an exclamation mark

And when they hear
Music that makes them feel
We'll make sure they can't feel for real

And when they complain
We'll say we made the umbrella
That's keeping them from the rain

And when they lie
We'll know the truth
Before it comes to light

'Cause it's a scheme
That's been in place
From the very beginning

It only took a little
Longer than my teenage years
It only took a little
To learn to smile and revel in
That the odds are stacked against us
Coming out from
Our teenage years