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.