Positive Jam

Woke up in the '20s

And there were flappers

And fruits in white suits

It was right before the crash

We got thrashed throughout the '30s

Queuing up for soup and scabby sores

Then they sent us off to war

We came back in the '40s

And there were wheelchairs, guns and ticker-tape

We poured it on the floor

And we made love to the interstates

We got shiftless in the '50s

Holding hands and going steady

Twisting in the dark parts

Of the large Midwestern cities

Tripped right through the '60s

With some blissful little hippie

Some Kennedys got shot

While you were screwing San Francisco

And the '70s got heavy

We woke up on bloody carpets

Got tangled up in gas lines

And I guess that's where it started

The '80s almost killed me

Let's not recall them quite so fondly

Some Kennedy OD'ed

While we watched on MTV

And in the '90s we were wired and well-connected

Put it all down on technology

And lost everything we invested

We gotta start it off with a positive jam

Gotta start it with a positive jam, man

Gotta start it with a positive jam

All the sniffling indie kids

Hold steady

And all you clustered-up clever kids

Hold steady

And I got bored when I didn't have a band

And so I started a band, man

We gotta start it with a positive jam

Hold steady