Fast Forward

I'm hitting fast forward Seems like we'd gotten kind of stuck Time to get out of town and try to Set the controls for sometime off in the future Where people will be happy instead of Getting dumber and getting scareder all the time Scared of their own shadows and scared to take a fall Either miserable with millions or dying for a dime Desperate to live forever or lucky to live at all And if I could see myself from some other planet Would I be shaking my head sadly or Would I be laughing Saying it's always been the same But anyway Not going back to the Age of Gold or the Age of Sin Fast forward till I understand the age I'm in And it's always the old guys bitching About the young guys growing beards Or turning into sissies or something While they're trying to hold back time As if that isn't weird Meanwhile the young guys are Waiting for respect when what they wanna be is cool Cool calm and collected just as if that isn't strange Or they wanna blow the whistle, ring the bell and change the rules When the game goes on forever It's just the uniforms that change If this is the best of times or if it's the worst There's some difference of opinion out there Everyone is a genius But no one has any friends Or is it the other way around Not going back to the Age of Gold or the Age of Sin Fast forward till I understand the age I'm in Sometimes I look at the Moon And I think I know just how she feels Going round and round us again As we go round the Sun Watching us as fools and geniuses rush in And you and me age disgracefully And have way too much fun And everyone knows about what's over and done And tied up with pretty ribbons on it One king after another With a mad one and a queen or two Thrown in for good measure and meanwhile We can make the future, make it every bit as clear Make a friendly Star Trek universe, 'cause everything's allowed The only place that's seriously strange to be is here And the only time that's maddeningly mysterious is now So I'm hitting fast forward Come on get on board You don't wanna be late now Not going back to the Age of Gold or the Age of Sin Fast forward till I understand the age I'm in