Moyet later described how her song "Goodbye 70's" had been inspired by her disillusionment with how the late-1970s punk scene had turned out, saying, "'Goodbye 70's' is about punk and not caring how you were dressed, and then I discovered that so many of my friends that I'd thought it all really meant something to just saw it as another trend... That's what 'Goodbye 70's' was all about, about how sour the whole thing became."
Rock and roll is history,
It’s like reading in a library,
It’s got little or nothing to do, nothing to do with me
Rock and roll is as cold as clay,
It’s time to take the corpse away,
Smell it rot on a hot, hot, hot, hot, hot summer day
It’s all right, it’s all right,
It’s all right,
It’s all right, it’s all right,
It’s all right
Rock and roll means nothing to me,
It’s just some other kid’s poetry,
Keep the art for the students,
The students and the bourgeoisie
Rock and roll is a simple lie,
I can see it when I squint my eyes,
Repetition is a cheap yet convincing, a cheap yet convincing disguise
It’s all right, it’s all right,
It’s all right,
It’s all right if you’re white and you wanna be uptight,
It’s all right
It’s all right if you’re white and you wanna be uptight,
It’s all right if you’re bright and you’re staying up all night,
It’s all right if you’re tight and just wanna be polite,
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s like reading in a library,
It’s got little or nothing to do, nothing to do with me
Rock and roll is as cold as clay,
It’s time to take the corpse away,
Smell it rot on a hot, hot, hot, hot, hot summer day
It’s all right, it’s all right,
It’s all right,
It’s all right, it’s all right,
It’s all right
Rock and roll means nothing to me,
It’s just some other kid’s poetry,
Keep the art for the students,
The students and the bourgeoisie
Rock and roll is a simple lie,
I can see it when I squint my eyes,
Repetition is a cheap yet convincing, a cheap yet convincing disguise
It’s all right, it’s all right,
It’s all right,
It’s all right if you’re white and you wanna be uptight,
It’s all right
It’s all right if you’re white and you wanna be uptight,
It’s all right if you’re bright and you’re staying up all night,
It’s all right if you’re tight and just wanna be polite,
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
Lyrics submitted by Ken Braley
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