Latchkey Kid

So, the Best Acoustic Band/Act Showcase for The 2010 Orange County Music Awards the other night served as the debut for a brand new song that I recently wrote called “Latchkey Kid.”  The performance of this song for the first time was a rousing success and definitely the highlight of my night—thank you all for that!  Since performing the song at the showcase, I’ve been getting tons of people asking me about its lyrics (thank you again for that as well), so I thought that I would post them here on my blog for you to read.  ”Latchkey Kid” is definitely going to be on my next album: I am working on the production in my head as I speak.

Latchkey Kid
Words and Music:  Mike Vitale

Coloring books when I was nine
Anything that I could do to pass the time
Finished up my homework after I go home from school
Built a blanket fort in my living room

Set the oven to 400 degrees myself
Perched up on the countertop to reach a kitchen shelf
It’s dinner time, and my parents are nowhere to be seen
So corn dogs and fish sticks are my routine

I’m a Latchkey Kid, and nobody cares about the trouble that I’m gettin’ in

Waiting by the phone for my parents to call
Staring at our family portrait hanging on the wall
My daddy says, “no TV” if stay up too late
Too bad he aint here to regulate

I’m a Latchkey Kid, and nobody cares about the trouble that I’m gettin’ in
I’m a Latchkey Kid, and nobody cares about the trouble that I’m gettin’ in

Sometimes my father would come home late
And my mother would be drunk by then, smell perfume, and throw a dinner plate
No one to read me story when I tuck myself into bed
So I dream of love
I dream of love
and then start my day again

I’m a latchkey kid, and nobody cares about the trouble that I’m gettin’ in
I’m a latchkey kid, and nobody cares about the trouble that I’m gettin’ in
I’m a latchkey kid
I’m a latchkey kid
I’m a latchkey kid