Latchkey Kid - John Moreland

Well tonight the stars are screaming

And I’ve long been learning how to let them go

I got these old familiar feelings

Looking back on how I got so low

Sometimes life plays like a series of exams

And you need someone to wash the bad blood off your hands

Well you’ll always be my favorite latchkey kid

I’m sorry that I hurt you like I did

There’s something wrong, something missing

Something I’ve seen inside my friends

And lord, it’s hard to find the vision

Standing at the darkest of dead ends

Won’t you tell me how the story goes and goes

When I’m too lost to tell my temples from my toes

I’ve got too many pages left to turn

To sit and wonder why that book won’t burn

So here I stand, right before you

Waiting for my turn to tow the line

Don’t let me die in California

While I’m dragging all these rivers in my mind

Cause I’ve found a love that shines into my core

And I don’t feel the need to prove myself no more

And when I look into the mirror, now I see

A man I never knew that I could be