We were the electric youth
Ready to redefine the rules
Build a better way to live
With a brand new set of tools

Defeating the ‘isms’ of childhood
That held our hopes back
Changing mindsets to bring the train
On to the right track

We were powered by a fight
Against all that was wrong
Shared through the mediums
Of sport, performance and song

Breaking down the sickness of society
The sexism, the racism, the hate
The antagonist’s scrawl on the wall
We thought was just a matter to wait

That in our achievements, our success
They would run out of their hateful calls
Shown to be the evil that none would want
We thought the ‘isms’ would fall

We were the electric youth 
Ready to define the world’s way
Seeing the destruction, the fear of hate
To give birth to a better day

We could see the ills the wrongs
Of ‘isms’ even as a child
Then why in this age that’s gone
Are we still to wait a while

We WERE the electric youth
We did not achieve our aims
Pick up the batten youth of today
Run to change this shame.