Текст Tom Paxton – Something Going On

We used to talk for hours
We ain’t talkin’ anymore
He’ll sit and tap his fingers
Then he’s up and out the door
My kid was a reader
He always had a book
You gave my kid a book to read
And that was all it took
And now he don’t read nothing
He don’t even watch TV
He checks his watch time after time
And he hardly looks at me
There’s something goin’ on
The kids are walkin’ away
If we don’t help ‘em around
We’ll have some terrible dues to pay
There’ll be something goin’ on
We might not get them back
The papers say this crack
Is killing a generation
My kid, he was happy
He tore around the place
You’d always hear him laughlng
With a grin across his face
Now he ain’t much for showers
He forgets to comb his hair

He looks in your direction
But he doesn’t know you’re there
‘Cause there’s something goin’ on
The kids are walkin’ away
If we don’t help ‘em now
There’ll be some terrible dues to pay
There’s something goin’ on
We might not get them back
The papers say this crack
Is killing a generation
My kid’s got me worried
My kid’s acting strange
He was always cheerful
Now there’s been a change
We used to talk for hours
We ain’t talkin’ anymore
He’ll sit and tap his fingers
Then he’s up and out the door
But there’s something goin’ on
The kids are walkin’ away
If we don’t help ‘em around
There’ll be some terrible dues to pay
There’s something goin’ on
We might not get them back
The papers say this crack
Is killing a generation
The papers say this crack
Is killing a generation