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BASTARDS OF YOUNG Lyrics

Artist: The Replacements
Album: Tim

God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons

Clean your baby womb, trash that baby boom
Elvis in the ground, there'll ain't no beer tonight
Income tax deduction, what a hell of a function
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons

Unwillingness to claim us, ya got no word (war?) to name us

The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons

Young...take it, it's yours...

Comments/Interpretations
by aileen on 5/19/2008 1:10pm uh one of the best songs of all time. there is no question about that.
by seamus on 5/27/2008 3:57pm one of the greatest songs ever if not the greatest.....
by shirley on 9/11/2008 1:38am I love!1 the line when it says how the ones love us least are the ones we'll die to please!
by ex-ex-alien on 10/1/2008 9:18pm I love the line "The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest"
by hunter on 10/22/2008 10:02pm if you like this song listen to the rainman suite version of it. better than the replacements version.
by truman on 10/24/2008 6:40pm imitation can never out do the original
by Happy One on 11/9/2008 8:47pm I was taking a walk today ~ trying to clear my head and I stopped dead in my step - the stanza that I've heard numerous times before just rang out so true and pure: The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest And visit their graves on holidays at best The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them. It put things into perspective for me today. I need to work it out and certainly MOVE ON! Thankful.
by BILLY on 12/17/2008 12:50am Truman - But a cover isn't always going to try and be a replication of the original. It's usually a reinterpretation which is an entirely different story. An obvious obvious example is Hallelujah. Boring original version written and performed by Leonard Cohen which was then transformed by Jeff Buckley.
by bvaljalo on 1/9/2009 3:11pm what i always thought ... 'elvis in the ground, we're waitin on beer tonight' 'one hell of a function' 'we got no war to name us' one of the greatest albums of all time, here comes a regular was the first song i learned to play and sing on the guitar at the same time ... all these reissues take me back to my college daze, kinda forgot what great discs were 'tim'-'all shook down'. long live the 'mats!
by Diego on 1/22/2009 5:57pm The replacements are certainly another level. How I would have loved to have seen them live. This song kicks ass.
by fish on 1/24/2009 4:38pm its you got no word to name us
by Cuervo on 4/15/2009 3:06pm Listen to the Superdrag version too on "Greetings from Tennessee" the best cover of this song.
by adam on 4/20/2009 9:54am i always thought it was "we got no war to name us", and always was impressed by that idea: the baby boom, the greatest generation, etc. and then...what are we? we weren't part of anything. no have nothing to represent us. we represent nothing, etc. thus, the orphan/"bastard" tie-in...
by Matt on 5/23/2009 12:55pm Against Me! also does a pretty ripping cover of this song as well.
by Kate on 5/29/2009 10:15am I saw them in 1989 (90?) in Philadelphia at the Tower Theater. They were so drunk and raucous...Tommy fell off the stage...ha! ha! ha!

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