Youth Gone Wild

Album: Skid Row (1989)
Charted: 42 99
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    Since I was born, they couldn't hold me down
    Another misfit kid, another burned out town
    I never played by the rules and I never really cared
    My nasty reputation takes me everywhere

    When I look and see it's not only me
    So many others have stood where I stand
    We are the young (hey), so raise your hands

    They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trial
    We walk an endless mile, we are the youth gone wild
    We stand and we won't fall, we're one and one for all
    The writing's on the wall, we are the youth gone wild

    Boss screaming in my ear about who I'm supposed to be
    Get a three-piece Wall Street smile, and son, you'll look just like me"
    I said, "Hey man, there's something you ought to know
    Well, I'll tell you Park Avenue leads to Skid Row"

    Well, I look and see it's not only me
    We're standin' tall, ain't never a doubt
    We are the young (hey), so shout it out

    They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trial
    We walk an endless mile, we are the youth gone wild
    We stand and we won't fall, we're one and one for all
    The writing's on the wall, we are the youth gone wild

    Well, let me hear you get wild

    They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trial
    We walk an endless mile, we are the youth gone wild
    We stand and we won't fall, we're one and one for all
    The writing's on the wall, we are the youth gone wild

    Whoa, whoa
    Whoa, we are the youth gone wild
    Whoa, whoa
    Whoa, we are the youth gone wild
    Yeah, yeah
    Yeah, we are the youth gone wild
    Whoa, whoa
    Whoa, we are the youth gone wild Writer/s: David Sabo, Rachel Southworth, Robert Affuso, Scott Mulvehill, Sebastian Bierk
    Publisher: ROUND HILL CARLIN, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • Diverdriver from Northern CaliforniaLuke, do you know what the word facetious means? Read my comment again then look it up in the dictionary if you don't know.
  • Luke from Manchester, England1. diverdriver - no, I didn't make a racist comment as racism is made from ignorance, not experience.
    If I say "all Frenchmen are smelly and f--k cheese at weekends" - that's racist, if I have seen a lot of Americans post idiotic statements about heavy metal songs, then it's not.

    2. stephanie, as an Englishman I can catagorically state I do know where the white folk settling into the US were from, we also sent them to Australia.
    My point about Americans was not a generalisation, it was from reading post upon post upon post on many, many songfact pages (not trawling, actually reading posts about songs I like) about how "Master Of Puppets" by Metallica is about Satan (it's about drug addiction) or "Revelations" by Iron Maiden is about drugs ( (it's about The bible)...
  • Willie from Scottsdale, AzWhere is England? ;-)
  • Stephanie from Eva, AlUm.... Luke you do realize that most american settlers came from ENGLAND! and just because we're not still there doesn't mean we're not capable of intellectual thought and reasoning! i personally love the song and never once thought it to be about Drugs or the devil!
  • Diverdriver from Petaluma, CaHey Luke, you realize you made a racist comment. I'm being facetious. In this litigious world, especially here in the US, you never know when some asshole who wants a freeride will be offended and file a lawsuit. Idiots like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
  • Adam from Yarmouth, MeI never ever thought that it never made sense with the song in my mind
  • Luke from Manchester, EnglandYou'd be surprised at what some Americans think songs are about (read the Metallica comments)
  • Sarah from Tavares, FlI'm American too and I never thought that either
  • Luke from Manchester, EnglandTo any Americans out there: THIS SONG IS NOT ABOUT THE DEVIL OR HEROIN SO GROW UP
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