When I Was Your Age

From the album ’’Off the Deep End’’ (1992) [Intro] [Verse 1] Let me tell you sonny. Let me set you straight You kids today ain’t never had it rough Always had everything handed to you on a silver plate You lazy brats think nothing’s good enough Well nobody ever drove me to school when it was ninety degrees below We had to walk butt naked through forty miles of snow Worked in the coal mine twenty two hours a day for just half a cent Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent [Chorus 1] When I was your age.     When I was your age    When I was your age.     When I was your age [Verse 2] Let me tell you something you whiny little snot There’s something wrong with all you kids today You just don’t appreciate all the things you’ve got We were hungry broke and miserable and we liked it fine that way There were seventy-three of us living in a cardboard box All I got for Christmas was a lousy bag of rocks Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt If we were really good we didn’t get desert [Chorus 2] When I was your age.     When I was your age    When I was your age.     When I was your age [Bridge 1] Didn’t have no telephone didn’t have no FAX machine All we had was a couple of cans and a crummy piece of string Didn’t have no swimming pool when I was just a lad Our neighbor’s septic tank was the closest thing we had Didn’t have no dental floss had to use old rusty nails Didn’t have Nintendo we just poured salt on snails Didn’t have no water bed had to sleep on broken glass Didn’t have no lawnmower we used our teeth to cut the grass [Solo] [Verse 3] What’s the matter now sonny you say you don’t believe this junk? You think my story’s wearin’ kinda thin? I tell you one thing I never was such a disrespectful punk Back in my time we had a thing called discipline Dad would whip us every night till a quarter after twelve Then he’d get too tired and he’d make us whip ourselves Then he’d chop me into pieces and play frisbee with my brain And let me tell ya Junior you never heard me complain [Chorus 3] When I was your age.     When I was your age    When I was your age.     When I was your age When I was your age.     When I was your age