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Songbook / words & recordings

Indie Kid

Hovercraft song file · /lyrics/indie-kid/

01 / The words

Written by Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman

Current recording: Doomed To Live

Wildman / Marsden / Downing / Downing · Lyrics: Wildman
From the 1996 sessions · Reconstructed 2026 · Doomed To Live, Side D 

Indie kid, indie kid
Tall and thin and white
Indie kid, indie kid
Staying out all night

Got to be out all night in your crazy clothes
To get yourself seen
Got to fall for all the crap
In the teen beat magazine

Indie kid, indie kid
Gone without a trace
Indie kid, indie kid
Well out of your face

Gotta know how to party
If it's the last thing you ever do
Gotta see some action
If it turns you black and blue

And when you know what the score is
I bet you wish that you didn't
But it's a natural emotion
It's too late
It's too late

And when you know what the score is
Bet you wish that you didn't
But it's a natural emotion
It's too late
It's still too late

Indie kid, indie kid
England in the rain
Indie kid, indie kid
Coming down again

Indie kid, indie kid, indie kid
Indie kid, indie kid, indie kid

03 / The dossier

About this song.

Written by
Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman
Work
Original

It starts as scene satire — clothes, magazines, parties and poses — then curdles into something closer to elegy, pulling the caricature back into English weather, place and loss.

04 / The archive

The evidence.

Indie Kid — Original set list
Original set list 1995–96

Period set list grouping Indie Kid with Killer Blues and Superman.