"Slum Kids" lyrics - THE KINKS
We're just slum kids, and we know it,
And we never stood a chance.
We were dragged up from the gutter,
From the wrong side of the tracks.
So how dare you criticize,
When you don't know what it's like
To be dragged up from the gutter,
From the wrong side of the tracks.
Why do rich kids get all the breaks,
While the poor slum kids have to work, sweat, struggle and slave?
Why, Lord, there's so much injustice in this world?
Slum kids never stand a chance.
Look at all the slum kids all around you,
Oh, they never stood a chance.
We were dragged up from the gutter,
From the wrong side of the tracks.
Why do rich kids get all the breaks,
While the poor slum kids have to work, sweat, struggle and slave?
Why, Lord, there's so much injustice in this world?
Slum kids never stand a chance.
Look at all the slum kids all around you,
Oh, they never stood a chance.
We were dragged up from the gutter,
From the wrong side of the tracks.
So how dare you criticize,
When you don't know what it's like
To be dragged up from the gutter,
From the wrong side of the tracks.
Preservation Act II (1974)
- Announcements
- Introduction To Solution
- When A Solution Comes
- Money Talks
- Shepherds Of The Nation
- Scum Of The Earth
- Second-Hand Car Spiv
- He's Evil
- Mirror Of Love
- Nobody Gives
- Oh Where Oh Where Is Love?
- Flash's Dream (The Final Elbow)
- Flash's Confession
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- Artificial Man
- Scrapheap City
- Salvation Road
- Mirror Of Love
- Slum Kids