The Who - the punk and the godfather

노래는 개인의 꿈과 정체성을 추구하는 과정에서 사회와 타인의 기대에 의해 상처받고 고통받는 내용을 담고 있다
주인공은 과거의 실수와 사회의 가짜 이미지 속에서 혼란스러움을 표현하며, 결국 자신이 조종 당하고 있다는 사실을 받아들인다
이로 인해 그는 진정한 자아와 자유를 찾고자 하는 갈망으로 가득 차 있다

You declared you would be three inches taller
You only became what we made you
Thought you were chasing a destiny calling
You only earned what we gave you
You fell and cried as our people were starving
Now you know that we blame you
You tried to walk on the trail we were carving
Now you know that we framed you
I'm the guy in the sky
Flying high, flashing eyes
No surprise I told lies
I'm the punk in the gutter
I'm the new president
And I grew and I bent
Don't you know? Don't it show?
I'm the punk with the stutter
(My, my, my, my, my g-g-g-g-generation)
(My, my, my, my, my g-g-g-g-generation)
We tried to speak between lines of oration
You could only repeat what we told you
Your axe belongs to a dying nation
They don't know that we own you
You're watching movies, trying to find the feelers
You only see what we show you
We're the slaves of the phony leaders
Breathe the air we have blown you