Richard Hell and The Voidoids – Blank Generation (1977)

American punk rock band Richard Hell and The Voidoids released their debut studio album Blank Generation in September of 1977 via Sire Records. It was produced by Richard Gottehrer. The band formed in New York City in 1976 by Richard Hell, a former member of the group Neon Boys, Television and The Heartbreakers.

This is a brand new lyric video that I just discovered on the Rhino Records’ YouTube page.

Richard Hell and The Voidoids- Blank Generation – Lyrics

I was saying let me out of here
Before I was even born
It’s such a gamble when you get a face
It’s fascinating to observe what the mirror does
But when I dine for the wall that I set a place

I belong to the Blank Generation, and
I can take it or leave it each time, well
I belong to the.. generation, but
I can take it or leave it each time

Triangles were falling out the window as the doctor cursed
He was a cartoon, long forsaken by the public eye
The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first
The doctor grabbed my throat and yelled God’s consolation prize

I belong to the Blank Generation, and
I can take it or leave it each time, well
I belong to the.. generation, but
I can take it or leave it each time

To hold the T.V. to my lips, the air so packed with cash
Then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in the vacant lot
To lose my train of thought and fall into your arms tracks
And watch beneath the eyelids every passing dot

I belong to the Blank Generation, and
I can take it or leave it each time, well
I belong to the.. generation, but
I can take it or leave it each time

(Taken from Richard Hell and The Voidoids- Blank Generation – Lyrics)