I think the song is definitely about parents and the establishment. I used to listen to this song all the time when I was a teenager. I didn't like the rules or like having to be boxed in with other people around me who were always trying to get you to conform or clean up your act or be who they want you to be. Punk rock and ska were a great outlet for how fucked up everything was and still is. Then you grow up and you find out adulthood isn't that much different. People are always trying to get you to conform to their ideals or their ideas of who or how you should be.
That's what a lot of punk rock was about, kids dissatisfaction with growing up in a society that supposedly respects individualism, but is really constantly trying to conform you into this person who is respectable. A lot of people will act like they're doing you a favor when they try to conform you, but usually they are just hypocrites. Many people also act one way when it benefits them, but when it doesn't benefit them, you realize that they just used you. This happened a lot when I was a teen, and I always felt like this growing up in SF.
I think the song is definitely about parents and the establishment. I used to listen to this song all the time when I was a teenager. I didn't like the rules or like having to be boxed in with other people around me who were always trying to get you to conform or clean up your act or be who they want you to be. Punk rock and ska were a great outlet for how fucked up everything was and still is. Then you grow up and you find out adulthood isn't that much different. People are always trying to get you to conform to their ideals or their ideas of who or how you should be.
That's what a lot of punk rock was about, kids dissatisfaction with growing up in a society that supposedly respects individualism, but is really constantly trying to conform you into this person who is respectable. A lot of people will act like they're doing you a favor when they try to conform you, but usually they are just hypocrites. Many people also act one way when it benefits them, but when it doesn't benefit them, you realize that they just used you. This happened a lot when I was a teen, and I always felt like this growing up in SF.