WE ARE THE KIDS FROM YESTERDAY //
✋japanese clay blend snowbutter
👃aloe drink, sun-bleached plastic, grass-stained t-shirt, forgotten crayons
The tiny plastic cottage’s pastel walls are sun-bleached and grimy with years of exposure to the elements. As the sun casts a warm, golden light on this place you once spent so many hours, you gently push open the door & breathe in the familiar faint scent of grass, earth, & toy-plastic. Inside, everything is just as you remember: the little sink where you made magic potions, the table where you served tea made from hose water to an appreciative audience of stuffed animals. Only now, everything is coated with a fine layer of dust, undisturbed for years, & the only child’s voice is an echo in your memory.
The Kids From Yesterday is the last song MCR recorded for Danger Days. Vocalist Gerard Way describes it as a song about “growing up, nostalgia, [& doing it] our way.”
“This could be the last of all the rides we take / So, hold on tight & don't look back”
It’s a last hurrah, the understanding that life is impermanent & ever-changing; we must live in the now and embrace the ephemerality of our experience. And despite that…we carry the memories of our past & the wisdom of all of our past selves with us: “When we were young, we used to say / That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break.”
The lyrics go on to say, “You only live forever in the lights you make”. Growing old is inevitable, but the impact we create on the world is our legacy. We must stay true to ourselves through it all.
This slime represents looking back on one’s younger years – the feeling of the things we have left behind but the memories we still carry with us as we meet our future.
This slime is layered in the colors of the iconic Little Tikes victorian playhouse. It comes with a clay top featuring a dissolvable photo print of a worn, weathered, sun-bleached polaroid. This is a photo I took around age 13 of myself standing on the torn-apart plastic playhouse from my childhood. It feels so special to share something from such a tender and significant time of my life with you, and the photo carries new meaning for me now as an adult.
