Take my advice
Don't listen to me
It ain't paradise

But it used to be
There was a time
When the river was wide

And the water
came running down
To the rising tide

But the wooden ships
Were just a hippie dream
Just a hippie dream.


Don't bat an eye
Don't waste a word

Don't mention nothin'
That could go unheard
'Cause the tie-dye sails

Are the screamin' sheets
And the dusty trail
Leads to blood

in the streets
And the wooden ships
Are a hippie dream

Capsized in excess
If you know what I mean.


Just because
it's over for you
Don't mean

it's over for me
It's a victory
for the heart

Every time
the music starts
So please

don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine.


Another flower child
goes to seed

In an ether-filled
room of meat-hooks
It's so ugly

So ugly.