Ian Hunter - Restless Youth Lyrics
(ian hunter)Hes much the same as anyone - he dont do what hes toldHe got hostile on his school report - and he leaves his mother coldHis father owned a bakery - one day they found him hangedIt aint good to be free in little italy - his sons the leader of the gangChorusRestless youth - restless youthRestless youth - restless youthHe soon found out he could not work - the money was no goodThis child of the city hit the welfare kitty - did some runnin for the hoodsAnd the logic of the street was such - that everything was bentTheres a lot of white collars - stealing government dollars - wouldnt noticeSuch a little percent.ChorusNow I went to his graduation - in some brooklyn overnight jailHe said he was a member of the rockn roll nation - but his face was drawn n paleThey gave him a suspended sentence - n he got straight on the phoneCalled a big, big, man with a miami tan n saidHi Im al capone - the 2nd restless youthChorusNow his first hit came at seventeen - his second was his lastSome dealer ran screaming from the scene - as the bullets whistled pastn the cop that killed him shook his head n said I swear the truthWhen I know it was some old, old man n not a restless youth.ChorusNow the moral of this story is that all he saw was greedLegal, illegalities n all them politician thievesGood people of the u.s.a. if you want your kids to growThen check your harvest carefully - dont reap; before you sowChorus
