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Latch Key Kid

from Tales Of The Oceans by Roy Smiles

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Produced by Simon Walker.

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Latch Key Kid

A father lost to silence, a mother lost to life
A house almost violent, anger its wife
Peeling the potatoes, fetching the coal
I was just a latch key kid, searching for his soul.

A brother lost to grieving, a mother lost to kin
A father self-deceiving, sons who couldn’t win
Peeling the potatoes, fetching the coal
I was just a latch key kid; searching for his soul.

Chorus
Wearing my brother’s hand me downs: a ragamuffin child
Threadbare & broken, hated, reviled
Wearing my brother’s hand me downs: a ragamuffin boy
With a heart unspoken - no bully could destroy.

A son lost to darkness, a mother lost to light
A house in shadow even when the sun was bright
Peeling the potatoes, fetching the coal
I was just a latch key kid, searching for his soul.

One son lost to dreaming, another lost to pain
Words said with no meaning, tears spilt like rain
Peeling the potatoes, fetching the coal
I was just a latch key kid, searching for his soul.

Chorus

(Instrumental)

A daughter lost to leaving, a brother lost to cries
Nobody grieving when a mother dies
Peeling the potatoes, fetching the coal
I was just a latch key kid, searching for my soul
I was just a latch key kid, searching for my soul
I was just a latch key kid searching for my soul.

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from Tales Of The Oceans, released July 19, 2000

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk. ... more

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