Intro
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[Verse]
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The VCR and the DVD - there wasn't none of that crap back in 1970
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We didn't know about a World Wide Web
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Was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid
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Wanna get down in a cool way?
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Picture yourself on a beautiful day
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Big Bell Bottoms and groovy, long hair
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Just a-walking in style with a portable GD player - No!
[Chorus]
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You would listen to the music on the EM Radio
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Yeah, you could hear the music on the EM Radio
[Verse]
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Flashback to '72
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Another summer in the neighborhood, hanging out with nothing to do
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Sometimes we'd go driving around in my sister's Pinto
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Cruising with the windows rolled down
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We'd listen to the radio station - we were too damn poor
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to buy the 8-track tape
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It wasn't then a good time to want to be inside
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My momma want to watch that TV all goddamn night
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I'd be in bed with the radio on
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I would listen to it all night long just to hear my favorite song
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You'd have to wait but you could hear it on the EM Radio
[Chorus]
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Yeah, you could hear the music on the EM Radio
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I can still hear momma say, "Boy, turn that radio down!"
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Aww, mom, not that show again!
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I don't wanna watch that show
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Can't we watch Good Times or Chico And The Man or something cool?
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Turn it off!
[Verse]
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Things changed back in '75
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We were all growing up on the in and the outside
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We got in trouble with the police man
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We got busted getting high in the back of my friend's van
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I remember 1977
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I started going to concerts and I saw the Led Zeppelin
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I got a guitar on Christmas day
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I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come to Santa Monica and teach me to play
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Teach me to play
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Teach me to play
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There isn't any place that I need to go
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There isn't anything that I need to know I did not learn from the radio
[Interlude]
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[Outro]
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Yeah, when things get stupid and I just don't know where to find my Happy
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I listen to the music on the EM Radio
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You could hear the music on the EM Radio
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You could hear the music on the EM Radio
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I like Pop, I like Soul
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I like Rock
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But, I never liked Disco