Lyrics to
Generation Landslide

This version of Generation Landslide was released by Alice Cooper in 1973.

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Please clean your plate, dear, The lord above can see ya
Don’t you know people are starving in Korea?
Alcohol and razorblades and poison and needles
Kindergarten people, they used ’em they need ’em
The over- indulgent machines were their children
There wasn’t a way down on earth here to cool ’em
‘Cause they looked just like humans at Kresges and Woolworth
But decadent brains were at work to destroy
Brats in battalions were ruling the streets saying
“Generation Landslide close the gap between ’em”
And i laugh to myself every man and the ladies
Who never could see those billions dollar babies

Militant mothers, hiding in the basement
Using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets
Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high-chairs
While mothers limp burned, with certificate papers
Dad gets allowance from his sonny the dealer
Who’s pubic to the world, but involved in high finance
Sister’s out ’til five doing banker’s son’s hours
But she owns a Maserati, that’s a gift from his father
Stop at full speed at one hundred miles per hour
The Colgate invisible shield finally got ’em
And I laugh to myself every man and the ladies
Who never could see those billion dollar babies

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About Lyrics and Generation Landslide by Alice Cooper

The lyrics for Generation Landslide are defined as the words making up the song released by Alice Cooper in 1973. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Generation Landslide have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Alice Cooper and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Generation Landslide by Alice Cooper if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Generation Landslide" means the words set to the music of Generation Landslide, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Generation Landslide and the lyrics to Generation Landslide are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to Generation Landslide, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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