Messin' with the Kid is the fourth track on The Saint’s first album, (I’m) Stranded, where the band slow the tempo down for just short of six minutes to deliver a melancholic ballad about the depressing love life of young men(in perhaps one of the first punk rock ballads?).
It ain't too easy being a young man
Going round in circles all the time
You've played their game now for so long, can't see
What in the world are they trying to do to me
Sometimes you get that old lost feeling
Sometimes it hits you when you're feeling down
It's that old feeling that brings you down
I say it makes you crawl
You walk down the main street out in the city
See all the girls now, they're so pretty
But all their smiling faces are just going to pass you by
It don't make no difference
No matter how hard you try...
Sometimes you get that old lost feeling
Sometimes it hits you when you're feeling down
It's that old feeling that brings you down
I said it makes you crawl
You been hanging around the alleys, hanging around the bars
Just looking for some fun, but there is none & there you are...
Looking for some action, looking for some fun, but you are down in the gutter & you don't get none oh no there is nothing left to do at night.....
How do you feel now that it's all over
Your kid dreams all melted under the sun
Just like a kid take a trip down to the sea
I am struck out in the middle
And there's just nothing left to say
But sometimes you get that old lost feeling
Sometimes it hits you when you're feeling down
It's that old feeling hun, that brings you down
I said it makes you crawl
Messin’ with the Kid was written by Chris Bailey & Ed Kuepper.
Messin’ with the Kid was produced by Mark Moffatt & Rod Coe.
The Saints released Messin’ with the Kid on Mon Feb 21 1977.