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“The Kids From Yesterday” is a song in which the men of My Chem look back on their past. It was released as the final single from Danger Days and, in turn, the last single released by the band from a studio album before their hiatus.
In the lyric booklet of May Death Never Stop You, bassist Mikey Way reveals:
“ allows me to reflect on my entire life – being a kid, growing up, learning about the universe, entering adulthood, and pondering the future. In that respect, it acts as a time capsule/ time machine in my mind. Countless memories pour out of me that I hadn’t thought about in decades or had seemingly almost forgotten.“
When asked if any My Chem songs held a special place in his heart, bassist Mikey Way said the following:
“I think our mutual favorite in the band is the “Kids from Yesterday.” To me the song is like a time machine. You listen to it and it makes us all think about growing up and it makes you think about being a kid. And then it makes you think about being a teenager. And it makes you think about where you are now and where you’re going. It’s just a very somber, introspective song and just one of the most powerful choruses I’ve heard in a rock song.“
His brother, and MCR frontman, Gerard Way spoke to Billboard and shared his feelings about the song:
“Our favorite song on the record and the last song we wrote. I think it’s the most special song for all of us because we were able to come to the conclusion that, yes, we have grown up, but we’ve done it our way. This feeling of completion and success came from that song because we felt like that. It was like, ‘Cool, it was okay to grow up. It’s okay to be in our thirties and make an album.’ But it’s our most immature mature record – the most fun but most mature. The song is really about growing up, nostalgia, finding a new way to describe an adult, which is to say, ‘You’re a kid from yesterday.’“
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