We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Little Kids

from The Hard Truth by D.M. Franklin Kane

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

lyrics

We can try to fool our children but they're smarter than you think
We can try to fool our lovers, too, but they'll read us like a shrink
You can run to trick your mothers, but I tried and never did

All grown up
The truth is out
Inside we're little kids

Hey, mister engineer, whose face is like a stone
Toiling till the morning in his office all alone
His thoughts are with the first he loved
His eyes are on the grid

He's all grown up but
The truth is out
He's still a little kid

Why did that cold shoulder yesterday
Roll off me into abyss?
And yet that same sort of shoulder years ago
Still hurts me?

Hey, children everywhere in playpens or with canes
Here's some dime store wisdom you can bounce around your brains
Remember how I tried to trick my ma, but never did?

Well, you should never kid a kidder
That's such a waste of play
With one who was a child inside until her dying day

So orphans, mormons, sleeper cells
We're labeled, locked, and hid
The truth is out, we're all screwed-up
But still just little kids

So orphans, mormons, sleeper cells
We're labeled, locked, and hid
The truth is out, our broken hearts
Belong to little kids

credits

from The Hard Truth, track released March 4, 2014
© 2014 D.M. Malboeuf (502 Tunes / ASCAP)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

D.M. Franklin Kane Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Up, Alive!" is the latest collection of songs from North Carolina's D.M. Franklin Kane.

This is Kane's first full-length release since 2014's "The Hard Truth."

contact / help

Contact D.M. Franklin Kane

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like D.M. Franklin Kane, you may also like: