Generation X - Your Generation (video e testo)

Billy Idol era biondo e non ancora famoso. Passato dal Bromley Contingent ad inseguire i Sex Pistols sul palco del Marquee, come si vede in video.

Generation X è l'omonimo album di debutto del gruppo punk inglese Generation X, pubblicato nel 1978 dalla EMI. 

Questa traccia è contenuta nell'album pubblicato in USA ed il video risale al 1977.

Spesso l'album è considerato atipico rispetto al punk dell'epoca, ad esempio per le linee di chitarra più complesse e per la presenza della power ballad Kiss Me Deadly, che in qualche misura anticipa le ballate hair metal degli anni ottanta.

Testo, lyrics:

Trying to forget your generation

You know all the ways when in what I see

The ends must justify the means

Your generation don't mean a thing to me

I say your generation don't mean a thing to me

I say your generation don't mean a thing to me

Might take a bit of violence

But violence ain't our only stance

Might make our friends enemies

But we gotta take that chance

There ain't no time for substitutes

There ain't no time for idle threats

Actions are rather hard to place

'Cause what you give is what you get

So, that's your generation

It's your generation

Well it's your generation

It's your generation

Trying to forget your generation

You know all the ways when in what I see

The ends must justify the means

Your generation don't mean a thing to me

I say your generation don't mean a thing to me

I say your generation don't mean a thing to me

Might take a bit of violence

But violence ain't our only stance

Might make our friends enemies

But we gotta take that chance

There ain't no time for substitutes

There ain't no time for idle threats

Actions are rather hard to place

Cause what you give is what you get

So, that's your generation

It's your generation

Well it's your generation

It's your generation

To the end justify the means

To the end justify the means

To the end justify the means

To the end justify the means

It time for generation