Lyrics

Nobody Says They Dig It

We were sitting in a café, sipping our lattes,
Comparing our investments, IRAs, 401Ks,
When we heard the roar of a boom box, and a skateboarding fool,
screaming down the sidewalk and he shouted out, “It’s so cool!”

Nobody says they dig it when they love it anymore,
This breakin’ ground just hardly makes the scene,
But when I say I dig it you’ll know I love it,
And you won’t have to wonder what I mean.

I was raised a way up in the country, don’t you know,
We kept close to the earth on which we’d grown,
So when I say I dig it, it’s just plain speakin’ to me,
back to my roots, a little bit like back home.

Why don’t they say they dig it when they love it anymore?
I think it’s hip to dig it so I do.
Some city folks they keep things on the surface, oh, yeah!
But I get down and dig it, I can’t stay cool.

Well, one day my kid while listening to his I-pod said to me,
“This dude who’s playing guitar, Dad, he sure is bad.”
I heard the same thing he did. I thought for once we might agree,
Seems “bad” don’t have the meanin’ I thought it had.

Why don’t they say they dig it when they love it anymore?
That’s just beatniks and hippies and they don’t make the scene.
But when I say I dig it you’ll know I love it,
And you won’t have to wonder what I mean.