A/N: I can't be the only one who thinks that this song sounds like a disturbing EEnE fanfiction…. For that reason, I apologize if any one else has already done a songfic with this show and song. Anyways, I don't own "Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy", nor "The Kid's Aren't Alright" by the Offspring. Enjoy, R&R please!
When we were young, our futures seemed so bright, the old cul-de-sac was so alive. Every last one of us kids on that whole damn street was going to make it big in life, and not let the hardships that had claimed so many others beat us.
But that was then.
Now the cul-de-sac is cracked and torn, and all of us kids have grown up, worn down by the very hardships they had planned to overcome. We go through our sad and desperate lives wondering one question: how can one little street swallow so many lives?
Nazz had a chance, well she really did. She may not have been the brightest, but she could've graduated with average grades, and probably have gotten a scholarship for cheerleading or something. Then she got pregnant, and instead dropped out and had a couple of kids. Jonny still lives at home, unable to get a job in this economy. He spends all of his time in his parents basement, playing that guitar with a face drawn on it he had named "Plank", and smoking a lot of pot. Then there's Jimmy, poor unfortunate Jimmy. He was bullied his entire childhood, and eventually just couldn't take it any more. Jimmy committed suicide when he was only fourteen-years-old. Kevin became obsessed with performance-enhancing drugs in high school, figuring the only way he could make something of his life was with sports. However, he ended up over-dosing and died. As we all wonder what the hell is going on, we Ed's experience the cruelest dream; reality.
All of our chances have been thrown away, and we quickly realize that nothing in life is free. We spend all of our time longing for what used to be. Still the hardest thing to see, is all the fragile lives around us, wallowing in their shattered dreams.