Remember When...-The Parlotones

Remember when we were young, playing superheroes in our underpants Then the oldest told us batman wasn't real So we grew up rather young We bled real blood just to act real tough We realised pretty soon real life is really real So we cry and crawl and we learn to walk Pretty soon we all fall down We laugh and we dance we all make love And we break our hearts, we all fall down They say, "That's life!" We're born into this world with no book of rules Welcome to the hard knock school They say, "That's life!" Remember when we were young, playing cops and robbers just for fun Then our neighbourhoods filled up, filled up with real guns So we learnt real quick that life is sick When we couldn't fix the problem with a crucifix It was times like these we wished batman was real So we cry and crawl and we learn to walk Pretty soon we all fall down We laugh and we dance we all make love And we break our hearts, we all fall down They say, "That's life!" We're born into this world with no book of rules Welcome to the hard knock school They say, "That's life!" When days are dark and it all goes wrong We'll just hum a long to our favourite songs They say, "That's life!" We're born into this world with no book of rules Welcome to the hard knock school They say, "That's life! We're older now but not braver, Voting for supposed saviours And it's times like these we wish batman was real