What does The Kids Don't Stand a Chance mean?

Vampire Weekend: The Kids Don't Stand a Chance Meaning

Tagged:   No tags, suggest one.
Album cover for The Kids Don't Stand a Chance album cover

The Kids Don't Stand a Chance Lyrics

"The Kids Don't Stand A Chance"

A devastating backstroke
All the way from France
With shiny, shiny cufflinks
A shirtsleeve to enhance

The pin-striped men of morning
Are coming for to dance
With pure Egyptian Cotton
The kids don't stand a...

  1. anonymous
    click a star to vote
    May 21st 2013 !⃝

    this song is pretty obviously about how our generation (the kids) dont stand a chance thanks to the older generation who have kindly ruined the world for us. you know global warming, debts, war. its not hard to figure out

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  2. anonymous
    click a star to vote
    Nov 21st 2012 !⃝

    Drug dealers stealing our son's and daughters souls.

  3. anonymous
    click a star to vote
    Apr 5th 2011 !⃝

    I have read on another website that someone believes that this beautiful song Is about settlers coming to America and setteling but in the process taking the land from the native people. To me this makes the most sence.


More Vampire Weekend songs »


 


Latest Articles

 


Submit Your Interpretation

[ want a different song? ]




Blog posts mentioning Vampire Weekend

Just Posted

Steve's Going to London anonymous
Yes I'm A Mess anonymous
Droppin' Plates anonymous
Rat anonymous
Cry for the Moon anonymous
And the Snakes Start to Sing anonymous
Gingerbread Man anonymous
Not Like the Movies anonymous
This Masquerade anonymous
Birthday Suit anonymous
Dollhouse anonymous
Death anonymous
Copy Cat anonymous
I Hate Jimmy Page anonymous
I Hate Jimmy Page anonymous

(We won't give out your email)