[00:00.000] 作曲 : Albert Hammond/Michael Hazelwood[00:10.289]My father is a doctor, he's a family man[00:14.903]My mother works for charity whenever she can[00:20.013]They're both good clean[00:21.696]Americans who abide by the law[00:24.911]And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war[00:29.699]My happyness was paid for when they laid their money down[00:34.531]For summers in a summer camp and winters in the tow[00:39.438]My future in the system was talked about and planned[00:44.473]But I gave it up for music and the free electric band[00:57.814]I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair[01:02.608]And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air[01:07.423]And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep[01:12.445]And he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep[01:17.267]Then my father organized for me a college in the east[01:22.131]But I went to[01:23.637]California, the sunshine and the beach[01:27.257]My parents and my lecturers could never understand[01:31.973]Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band[01:40.961]Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career[01:45.634]Alawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer[01:50.328]Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand'[01:55.389]Cause all[01:55.979]I need is music and the free electric band[02:08.677]My father sent me money, and[02:10.780]I spent it very fast[02:13.583]On a girl[02:14.616]I met in Berkeley in a social science class[02:18.227]Yes, and we learnt about her body, but her mind we didn't know[02:23.199]Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show[02:27.944]She wanted to get married even though she never said[02:32.771]And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head[02:37.739]She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land[02:42.607]So I gave her up for music and the free electric band