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Brownies for Breakfast
words & music © copyright 2001 Holly Tannen |
I'm reading your annual letter It's full of your annual cheer You tell me what's happening back in New York And you wonder what's happening here | |
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Your daughter's a junior at Swarthmore Your son's made the basketball team Your husband will clear ninety thousand this year Your house is an architect's dream | |
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(Refrain) | But in Mendocino it's different I run with a musical bunch We like to have brownies for breakfast We like to have mushrooms for lunch. |
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I spent all the 60s in Berkeley I'm sorry that you were not there We took LSD while you watched TV And laughed at our clothes and our hair | |
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We studied our psychical innards While you gained political clout You learned to deal, while we learned to feel Turning on, tuning in, dropping out | |
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I'm teaching my parrot to yodel I'm learning to play the guitar I walk by the sea, I don't own a TV I'm driving a ten-year old car | |
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I've strolled through your house in the suburbs Admiring all of your stuff And I may need a shrink, but I can't help but think That there is such a thing as enough | |
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I really loved reading your letter I hope you're enjoying my news I'd wish you a wonderful Christmas Except that we're both of us Jews | |
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(Refrain) | Yes, in Mendocino I'm happy I run with a musical bunch We like to have brownies for breakfast We like to have mushrooms for lunch. |
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| updated 25 February 2002 : 7:34 Caspar (Pacific) time |
copyright © 2002 by Holly Tannen