Lyrics for Spoiled as interpreted by Jawson

Spoiled Lyrics
Spoiled children soon to fall
Freedom is the lie we live
We will wait for tragedy
And scatter helpless to the fire
Sorry for ourselves
Sorry for the things we've seen
No one cries for help
Waiting for the fire
When all our toys are burning
All these empty urges must be satisfied
Acted outside
Precious strength to turn the game to history
Giving up, I'm blown away
He said all I had to say
The final days have come and gone
Safe inside; there’s nothing wrong
Nothing in these words
Sorry force of habit
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it
Dumb & cruel
Cut before it's grown
Lies so forced in bored control
It learned all that it cares to know

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ladyboygrrl
05-25-2004

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this song is played during the credits of the film 'kids'. it means so much to me...i could give an interpretation of every line of this song. it just totally sums up youth, apathy, drugs, sex, growing up too soon.

Freedom is the lie we live (you may think you are free, but you are only doing what your friends, the media and popular culture tells you is cool)

All these empty urges must be satisfied (sex, drugs, they're so empty but i still do them)

Could it be way over my head?
Helpless to describe it (we are beyond what we can handle, we see so much but are powerless to articulate it)

Cut before it's grown (we do not have a chance to grow up- also refers to the HIV+ status of teenagers in the film 'kids')

Lies so forced in bored control (we say that we like drugs and sex, but its really because we're bored of life- these things control and sedate us)

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mr.mr.onbrokenwings
07-01-2004

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wow. that's a really great interpretation. by the way, if anyone out there is reading this, might want to pick up III now, because it's out of print and getting kinda expensive.

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DubC4Life
07-01-2004

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This song breaks my heart.

R.I.P. Justin Pierce

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El Tea
06-12-2005

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Love the song. Can't think of a song more perfect for a movie as this and Kids.

anyways, I'm desperately searching for a guitar tab or chord file for the song and am having NO LUCK whatsoever. I'm terrible at learning songs, especially chord-heavy ones by ear. can anyone help me out? if you know of a place with a tab you can just direct me to it from here. or if you just know the song you can talk to me on AIM, my sn is POJOHEAD

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zenzella
08-18-2005

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Heard this on Kids too. I love this song. I could listen to it all day..

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undErneeth
02-12-2006

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i ♥ this song it just makes you want to cry sometimes. It goes so well with "Kids".

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thisboyistocotronic
05-08-2006

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i always thought it was "helpless, still describing"
oh, well.

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E_m
06-09-2006

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When Justin Pierce stare at us, asking "Jesus Christ, what happened?", eyes get wet, and then you hear this beautiful and sad song about hopeless kids, I cry every time I hear it.
If anyone got a guitar pro tab of this song, or know how to make one, please add me on msn : simonpoto@hotmail.com

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Troll1234
02-22-2007

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Im so glad to see that im not the only one that think that this is one of the greatest songs ever written. Kids is for me and a lot of my friends the movie that defined our youth we was not quite as far out the kids in the movie but at lot it they were at lot of paralels, and the song does this rare thing of summing up all the fellings you have as a teenager.
I have allso been looking for tabs for this song and i did for some time ago find some tabs but it didt´n sound right but now im looking again.

PS. to bad more havent wacht the movie quz then a lot more will have heard this great song

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Troll1234
02-22-2007

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its me again sorry for any gramatik mestake in the previous comment but im from denmark and not the good at english but here it goes. If you want to find tabs then use the search engine altavista click of the family filter and then search sebadoh spoiled tabs then you will get some foreign sites but tabs at least.

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ginadoll187
06-25-2007

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kids is one of the most honest interpretations of being a teenager whether you live in the city or not...and this is one of the greatest songs ever, it fits perfectly with the movie. sebadoh = great band

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fat_mike10
03-10-2008

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the song fits so perfectly with 'kids' because larry clark commissioned lou barlow and john davis (sebadoh and folk implosion) to compose the music for the film. they also did the music for the part where they film random people around ny ('raise the bells'). the film's just amazing, its so personal and natural that you cant help but be affected by it. they need to make more films like this.

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sonicthreat
03-28-2008

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i am brazilian, and in 1995, when 'kids' was released here, i was 16. i was a skateboarder too. i live in sao paulo, almost the same size and the same features of NY, so i could see myself in that movie.
i know how you guys feel. i am 30 yrs old now, and i still can remember leaving the movie and heading straight to a cd shop to buy the kids soundtrack. i still have it. and in the soundtrack i discovered sebadoh ( which is on my top ten bands ever ), slint, ( another of the top ten ), the movie has changed me in a relly deep way. really intense. dense. heavy.
lou hs a really strong power over me.
c you guys.

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givemeanything
02-10-2009

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i saw this movie a billon times, i absolutley love it. i showed my friends it, they did not understand it, it made them want to have sex and do drugs etc. They would say well why wouldnt that guy just wear a condom or stop having sex, they did not get that telly only did it to be cool and fit in. i hate what my friends said about it, kids did not have that message it showed what kids were really like, a rude wake up call to some, just another way to express some kids lives to others, i wish that more people could see that we live in a sick world nowadays, we dont have any voices. if we stand out or do things differently we will be outsiders,

ladyboygrrl
^ you are completley right, we live in a world where we basically are robots, we are just following the trend of what is cool or accepted, it makes me very upset honestly with the wars, hate, racism etc. why
do we even hate? there is no real reason, why dont we stop anything bad going on? we just pretend like we dont see it or laugh along to be accepted or to fit in. it makes me sick honestly. and it makes me even more sick that i do it, but everyone does it, knowone wants to be alone, so we do drugs or have sex in a way to fit in or be accepted. i am very ashamed of myself, i will always have this thought in the back of my head when i do things to impress or get accepted by people.

i always cry at the end of kids,

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leamanc
07-14-2009

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Yeah, it's perfect for Kids. But, I listened to Sebadoh III about 1,852 times before I ever even saw the trailer for Kids, so I'll always think of this song in a different context. It just really conjures up memories of being a teenager and not knowing what the fuck you are doing with your life. Great, great song.

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