Listening to it for the first time. I'll have to check it out a few more times before I give a final judgement! First few thoughts though:
-I still miss Brandon's Hot Fuss voice. Seems like he's not budging from his Day and Age/Flamingo thing he's got going on. Guess I'll have to accept it and move on
-Verses and chorus kick total ass. Instrumentation is awesome. You can really tell it's the band and not the session musicians he had for Flamingo.
-Overall, I like it..so far. It makes me curious to see where they're going with the album, because this doesn't really sound like anything they've done before!
-Last but not least, it's a bit too short!
Blonde hair blowing in the summer wind
Blue-eyed girl playing in the sand
I’ve been on the trail for a little while
But that was the night that she broke down and held my hand
Teenage rush
She said: Ain’t we all just runaways?
We got time and that ain’t much.
We cant wait till tomorrow
You gotta know that this is real
Baby, why you wanna fight it?
It’s the one thing you can’t choose
OH!
We got engaged on a friday night
I swore on the head of our unborn child
That I could take care of the three of us
But I’ve got the tendency to slip when the nights get wild.
It’s in my blood
You said she might just runaway
Somewhere else, someplace good
We cant wait till tomorrow
You gotta know that this is real
Baby, why you wanna fight it?
It’s the one thing you can’t choose
Let’s take a chance, baby we cant lose
Ain’t we all just runaways?
I knew it when I met you
I’m not gonna let you runaway
I knew it when I held you
I wasn’t letting go
We used to look at the stars and confess our dreams
Hold each other till the morning light
We used to laugh, now we only fight
Baby are you lonesome now?
At night I come home after they go to sleep
Like a stumbling ghost I haunt this hall
There’s a picture of us on our wedding day
I recognize the girl but I can’t settle in these walls
We can’t wait till tomorrow
No we’re caught up in the appeal
Baby, why you wanna hide it?
It’s the last thing on my mind
(Why you wanna hide it?)
I turn the engine over and my body just comes alive
Ain’t we all just runaways?
I knew it when I met you
I’m not gonna let you runaway
I knew it when I held you
I wasn’t letting go
OH OH OH OH OH OH
(Ain’t we all just runaways?)
Yeah Runaways
(Ain’t we all just runaways?)
Yeah
This song is so good. Like, it's a kind of rockyness we haven't heard from The Killers in a while. It's something you want to grab your guitar and just jam out to, really.