The Verve Pipe - Latchkey Kid lyrics

Here comes the latchkey kid He's got our world on his shoulders He has a secret identity On a fake ID that will claim he is ten years older With tousled hair and eyes that roll He's cynical, whatever that means There's his sidekick the matchstick girl, her behaviour erratic Confusing her victims with mood shift twirls When backed in a corner she'll hit them with something sarcastic With an attitutde and eyes that roll, while hidden safe behind her bangs What a wonderful piece of mind Living blind to the broken [?] an old excuse One we'll use while we're here Having the time, the time of our lives Relying on the latchkey kid Make way for the latchkey kids They're our hope for the future They're going to erase all the bad things we did With their xbox sk**s and their heads full of short-term memory With eyes that roll and teenage shoulders Shrugging of the universe What a wonderful piece of mind Living blind to the broken As tired as a played out song We all sing along while we're here Having the time, the time of our lives Relying on the latchkey kid See the storm clouds forming there You can feel the tension in the air What a wonderful piece of mind Living blind to the broken We all have our different fears They disappear when unspoken Someone should do something and that someone will bring us redemption Very soons we will raise our gla**es and kiss eachothers' a**es goodbye Until that time, it's been sublime Relying on the latchkey kids Make way for the latchkey kids They're our hope for the future Make way for the latchkey kids They're our hope for the future Make way for the latchkey kids