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'cause you wanna live forever in the lights you make when we were young we used to say that you only hear the music when your heart begins to break now we are the kids from yesterday

The Kids from Yesterday

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“The Kids from Yesterday” feels like the silence after the explosion. In an album (Danger Days) drenched in neon chaos, speed, and rebellion, this track arrives unexpectedly — slow, soft, and reflective.

This isn’t just a song about letting go. It’s a letter to your past self, a moment of realization that you can’t stay in who you were, even if you loved them deeply. Lines like “We used to play outside when we were young / And full of life and full of love” are tender, nostalgic — almost like the ending scene of a coming-of-age film. It doesn’t feel regretful, just reverent.

And when Gerard Way sings “You only live forever in the lights you make,” it lands like a soft, inevitable truth: nothing truly ends if it’s remembered — if it left light behind.