Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
“Kids on the Street” is about being young and enjoying flouting social standards of decency and propriety. It is narrated from the point of view of a bratty, young, punk kid who disdains polite society.
Stylistically, it’s on the more straightforward “alternative” side of the tracks on Kids on the...
[Verse 1]
It's time
For a new understanding
If you're one of the many
Who the family's let go
Hold on
Stay together, we're crashin'
Sellin' fake hits of acid
To a college asshole
[Chorus 1]
I can tell that I disgust
Ugly old faces I see
You call us mallrats; the town
Is callous to the kids on the street
Kids on the street
Kids on the street
Kids on the street, yeah
[Verse 2]
I know
Like an animal's knowledge
What you'll never acknowledge
And prefer to ignore
I go
Like a brick through a window
There may be no tomorrow
I don't care anymore
[Chorus 2]
Here I am, I ruined your wall
Talk responsibility
Ugliness, mallrats, the town
Is callous to the kids on the street
Kids on the street
Kids on the street
Kids on the street
All the kids on the street
[Bridge]
Smarmy people, I'd like to blow them all away
Vacant faces and a language of cliches
Hypocrites aspiring to be all the same
I will act on all my dreams
And I'll take things to extremes
[Verse 3]
This time
Of a new understanding
With the darkness descending
And your money all gone
I will hang tough
Making weirdness a virtue
I will never desert you
In your quest for the dawn
[Chorus 1]
I can tell that I disgust
Ugly old faces I see
You call us mallrats; the town
Is callous to the kids on the street
Kids on the street
Kids on the street
Kids on the street
All the kids on the street
All the kids on the street
All the kids on the street