[ti:The Free Electric Band]
[ar:Albert hammond]
[al:The Free Electric Band]
[00:10.01]My father is a doctor, he's a family man
[00:15.00]My mother works for charity whenever she can
[00:19.83]And they 're bothgood clean Americans who abide by the law
[00:24.48]And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war
[00:29.32]My happiness was paid for when they laid their money down
[00:34.15]For summers in a summer camp and winters in the town
[00:39.04]My future in the system was talked about and planned
[00:43.90]But I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band
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[00:57.70]I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
[01:02.35]And the school was big ang newly built and filled whith light and air
[01:06.84]And the teachers taught us values that we had to learn to keep
[01:12.10]And they'd clip the ear of any idle kid who went to sleep
[01:16.57]And my father organised for me a college in the east
[01:21.63]But I went to Clifornia, the sunshine and the beach
[01:26.71]My parents and my lecturers could never understand
[01:31.47]Why I gave it up for music and The Free Electric Band
[01:40.05]Well,they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
[01:44.97]A lawyer or a doctor or a civil  engineers
[01:49.88]Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand
[01:54.81]Cause all I need is music and The Free Electric Band
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[02:07.88]My father sent me money and I spent it very fast
[02:12.78]On a girl I met in Berkeley in a social science class
[02:17.06]Yes, and we learnt about her body but her mind we didn't know
[02:22.49]Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to
[02:27.45]She wanted to get married even though she never said
[02:32.20]But I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
[02:37.14]She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
[02:41.90]So I gave her up for music and The Free Electric Band
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[02:50.31]Ooh...The Free Electric Band
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