Little Boxes

Yesterday as I was driving to work from my yuppie house in the burbs, like someone in the Indianopolis 500, except surrounded by SUVs instead of sleek racecars, I found myself humming "Little Boxes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvK0ZKaK6h8, written by Songwriter and social activist Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978). Oh how did I ever sell my soul?

Malvina Reynolds

Little boxes on the hillside
~ Little boxes made of ticky tacky
~ Little boxes on the hillside
~ Little boxes all the same
~ There's a green one and a pink one
~ And a blue one and a yellow one
~ And they're all made out of ticky tacky
~ And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
~ All went to the university
~ Where they were put in boxes
~ And they came out all the same
~ And there's doctors and lawyers
~ And business executives
~ And they're all made out of ticky tacky
~ And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course
~ And drink their martinis dry
~ And they all have pretty children
~ And the children go to school
~ And the children go to summer camp
~ And then to the university
~ Where they are put in boxes
~ And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business
~ And marry and raise a family
~ In boxes made of ticky tacky
~ And they all look just the same
~ There's a green one and a pink one
~ And a blue one and a yellow one
~ And they're all made out of ticky tacky
~ And they all look just the same.

Words and music by Malvina Reynolds. Copyright 1962, Schroder Music Company