[00:00.000] 作曲 : Albert Hammond/Michael Hazelwood
[00:10.289]My father is a doctor, he's a family man
[00:14.903]My mother works for charity whenever she can
[00:20.013]They're both good clean
[00:21.696]Americans who abide by the law
[00:24.911]And they both stick up for liberty and they both support the war
[00:29.699]My happyness was paid for when they laid their money down
[00:34.531]For summers in a summer camp and winters in the tow
[00:39.438]My future in the system was talked about and planned
[00:44.473]But I gave it up for music and the free electric band
[00:57.814]I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair
[01:02.608]And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air
[01:07.423]And the teacher taught us values that we had to learn to keep
[01:12.445]And he clipped the ear of many idle kid who went to sleep
[01:17.267]Then my father organized for me a college in the east
[01:22.131]But I went to
[01:23.637]California, the sunshine and the beach
[01:27.257]My parents and my lecturers could never understand
[01:31.973]Why I gave it up for music and the free electric band
[01:40.961]Well, they used to sit and speculate upon their son's career
[01:45.634]Alawyer or a doctor or a civil engineer
[01:50.328]Just give me bread and water, put a guitar in my hand'
[01:55.389]Cause all
[01:55.979]I need is music and the free electric band
[02:08.677]My father sent me money, and
[02:10.780]I spent it very fast
[02:13.583]On a girl
[02:14.616]I met in Berkeley in a social science class
[02:18.227]Yes, and we learnt about her body, but her mind we didn't know
[02:23.199]Until deep rooted attitudes and morals began to show
[02:27.944]She wanted to get married even though she never said
[02:32.771]And I knew her well enough by now to see inside her head
[02:37.739]She'd settle for suburbia and a little patch of land
[02:42.607]So I gave her up for music and the free electric band