[Verse 1]
Raised on rust and secondhand smoke
Seatbelt dangling
Dad’s old jokes
Latchkey kings of the cul-de-sac
Bruised-up knees and a busted backpack
Cable glow and a microwaved dinner
Learned to lie
Learned to be a sinner
Drank from hoses
Slept on floors
Every scar a scoreboard
[Pre-Chorus]
We were wild
Unsupervised
Laughing while the world went sideways
[Chorus]
We’re the feral kids that made it
Blood on our shoes
And we still won’t fake it
Every bad idea that brought us here
We scream it out
Make it loud
Make it clear
We didn’t break
We bent the rules
Raised ourselves and wrecked their schools
Gen-X hearts
Beat like war drums
Dear
Feral kids
Still here
[Verse 2]
Riding in the back with no one strapped
Fistfights first
Then we just laughed
Metal lunchbox
Hidden smokes
Dark arcade full of broken jokes
Raised on fear of the end of days
Turned it into razorblade grace
We grew teeth in the TV glow
Learned to leave and never let it show
[Pre-Chorus]
We were wild
Unsupervised
Burned our names across the sky
[Chorus]
We’re the feral kids that made it
Blood on our shoes
And we still won’t fake it
Every bad idea that brought us here
We scream it out
Make it loud
Make it clear
We didn’t break
We bent the rules
Raised ourselves and wrecked their schools
Gen-X hearts
Beat like war drums
Dear
Feral kids
Still here
[Bridge]
No regrets
Just receipts in our skin (hey!)
All the wreckage
Turned to armor within
Call us bitter
We just call it truth
We survived
And we kept our youth (oh!)
[Chorus]
We’re the feral kids that made it
Blood on our shoes
And we still won’t fake it
Every bad idea that brought us here
We scream it out
Make it loud
Make it clear
We didn’t break
We bent the rules
Raised ourselves and wrecked their schools
Gen-X ghosts
We refuse to disappear
Feral kids
Feral kids
Still here