The Killers - Runaways

The song includes the line, "I got the tendency to slip when the nights get wild." The Independent on Sunday asked Flowers if the lyric is storytelling, or autobiographical? "Ah-ha," the committed Mormon frontman replied. "Ah, you know it's… there's a little bit of me in [everything] – it's inevitable that I'm gonna creep my way into these songs. But I am also good at observing what's happening around me. And 'Runaways', that's not some grand statement that I'm here to make. But it is an observation of what I'm seeing every day, and living. I see just…There just seems to be a tough… it's not the coolest subject, I guess… It seems to be harder than ever for people to commit to each other."