You were a child Crawling on your knees toward it Making momma so proud But your voice is too loud We like to watch you laughing You pick the insects off plants No time to think of consequences Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted The water is warm But it's sending me shivers A baby is born Crying out for attention Memories fade Like looking through a fogged mirror Decisions to decisions are made and not bought But I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot I guess not Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees
You were a child Crawling on your knees toward it Making momma so proud But your voice is too loud We like to watch you laughing You pick the insects off plants No time to think of consequences Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted The water is warm But it's sending me shivers A baby is born Crying out for attention Memories fade Like looking through a fogged mirror Decisions to decisions are made and not bought But I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot I guess not Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanted to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees
O single “Kids” foi lançado em 13 de outubro de 2008, sendo o terceiro single do álbum de estreia *Oracular Spectacular* e já recebeu indicação ao Grammy.
A canção passou por múltiplas gravações, com versões anteriores em *Time to Pretend* (2005) e *We (don't) Care* (2004), e a versão “newer” do álbum foi atualizada a partir dessas gravações.
Em 2009, “Kids” atingiu a posição nº 16 no Top 40 britânico, após ser usada em um comercial da BBC1 para *Waterloo Road*, e chegou a nº 9 na Billboard Modern Rock Tracks nos EUA.
A faixa foi destaque em diversos meios de entretenimento, aparecendo nas trilhas sonoras de *FIFA 09* e *Shaun White Snowboarding*, nos filmes *That's It, That's All*, *American Teen* e *Stranger Than Fiction*, e nas séries *Survivors*, *Paris Hilton's British Best Friend*, *Waterloo Road*, *The Real Hustle* e *The Vampire Diaries*.
A música alcançou o topo da parada nórdica, mas somente baseada em downloads, o que gerou controvérsia por não ter sido playlistada em grandes rádios antes de cair na lista na semana seguinte.
Diversos artistas já gravaram versões acústicas de “Kids”, incluindo The Kooks em 2008 para a compilação *Like a Version* da Triple J e Ben Lee em 2009 para o CD bônus de *The Rebirth of Venus*.
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