This song is about Lights thinking about her childhood. She has returned to the town she grew up in and with her old friends again, “just like the old times.”
In the video, no boys are present despite the fact the song is called “Running With the Boys”
[Verse 1]
We were kind of feral
Wicked, little machines
Captains and cavalries
Forming empires in the shade of the trees
Without hesitation
Kings of the forest town
Holding the ocean down
We were half this heavy and twice this loud
[Chorus]
So, turn up the noise
Dress to the nines
Running with the boys
Your hand in mine
Singing every song, loving every line
'Til the night is gone
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
[Verse 2]
Was what you made it
We had our friends around
All the images and sounds
Superimposed into all the backgrounds
Use to be clumsy
Lost in a thousands ways
Captivated by a craze
Those were hands down my favorite days
[Chorus]
So, turn up the noise
Dress to the nines
Running with the boys
Your hand in mine
Singing every song, loving every line
'Til the night is gone
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
[Bridge]
Suspicion wasn't in our heads
It was only underneath the beds, beds
Saline eyes didn't have to hide
They were always open way too wide,way too wide
[Chorus]
So, turn up the noise
Dress to the nines
Running with the boys
Your hand in mine
Singing every song, loving every line
'Til the night is gone
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
[Outro]
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
Just like the old times
Running with the Boys was written by Lights & Drew Pearson.
Running with the Boys was produced by Drew Pearson.
Lights released Running with the Boys on Mon Jan 26 2015.