Lyric discussion by PeterSi 

Cover art for We Real Cool lyrics by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Another interpretation is the relation of children to their parents - who took their measurements, bought their clothes, ran after them and literally defined the universe for them. But then, the children find a world that provides them all the information they might ever need and with far more certainty. The parents are reduced to somebody that might be called on occasion.

My Interpretation