high expectations (2)

Once the basic idea for a song is there, the next step, in regard to lyrics, is gathering phrases, rhymes, sentences, or just single key words. I intend to write about the 1970's ideals and misconceptions (?). And these were my first notes:

propagated free love
bourgeois family
struggled to overcome our jealousies
struggled with (our) jealousy
freedom was alright if (as long as) it was meant for me
destroy hierarchies
mistrusted authorities
love and peace

Two verses are already taking shape:

we propagated free love, despised the bourgeois family
although we had enough to do struggling with our jealousy
freedom was alright as long it mainly was meant just for me

we were proud to be surrounded by fierce enemies,
mistrusted all authorities, tried to distroy all hierarchies
our overall ideal was a life in total anarchy

Although I keep a scrap book, or rather a scrap file on the hard disk, I haven't utilized it for this song as yet. The scrap file contains all those ideas I found cool at some time, but somehow never managed to cast into a song. Several lines for 'bush fires' remained in this file until their subject had become rather obsolete. Not quite, actually. I only completed the text recently. One of the few lyrics without a tune to them, so it's more some kind of poem, I should think.