Tom: C C F C Mama said to me we gotta have your life run right C Off you got to school F G C Where you can learn the rules they're right C Be just like your dad lad F C Follow in the same tradition C F G C G Never go astray and stay an honest lovin' son C Son of my father F G C Molded, I was folded, I was preform-packed C Son of my father F G C Commanded, I was branded in a plastic vac' F G C Surrounded and confounded by statistic facts C F C Tried to let me in but I jumped out of my skin in time C F G C I saw through the lies and read the alibi signs F C So I left my home, I'm really on my own at last F G C Left the trodden path and separated from the past C Son of my father F G C Changing, rearranging into someone new C Son of my father F G C Collecting and selecting independent views F G C Knowing and I'm showing that a change is due C Son of my father F G C Molded, I was folded, I was preform-packed C Son of my father F G C Commanded, I was branded in a plastic vac' F G C Surrounded and confounded by statistic facts