The song is about growing up and the changes that come with it. It discusses how friendships can drift apart as times and cultures change. The singer feels lonely and uncomfortable living in the city, longing for the happier times spent with friends and family in the suburbs. While the world keeps changing in ways beyond their control, the singer searches for a sense of belonging and hopes to reconnect with old friends.

1. Lyric Analysis
Let's go for a drive, see the town tonight
There's nothing to do but I don't mind when I'm with
you
This town's so strange they built it to change
And while we sleep we know the streets get rearranged
My old friends, we were so different then
Before your war against the suburbs begin
Before it began
Now the music divides us into tribes
You grew your hair so I grew mine
You said the past won't rest
Until we jump the fence and leave it behind
My old friends, I can remember when
You cut your hair, I never saw you again
Now the cities we live in could be distant stars
And I searched for you in every passing car
The night's so long
Yeah the night's so long
I've been living in the shadows of your song
Living in the shadows of your song
In the suburbs I, I learned to drive
You told me we would never survive,
So grab your mother's keys, we leave tonight
But you started a war that we can't win
We keep erasing all the streets we grew up in
Now the music divides us into tribes
Choose your side, I'll choose my side
All my old friends they don't know me now
All my old friends are staring through me now
All my old friends they don't know me now
All my old friends they don't know me now
They don't know me now
All my old friends, they
He’s saying how quick times change, we
take things for granted and that the
people we know aren’t always the same
and we’re all afraid of the forever change
in the world, what was once home is now
nothing.
The song is about growing up and moving
on, he’s saying how down and grim it is to
live in the city, but once he’s with his
friends, family or lover its all okay and that
he’s at ease
How different cultures between friends get so
easily divided, how easily led we are by our
friends and how easy it is to live but not forget.
Saying how times change and friends move on,
how he and his friends live in different cities but
he still hopes to see him drive by one day.
He’s lonely and regrets living in the
city, he’s been clinging onto the things
that once made him happy, as he’s
uncomfortable and unhappy now.
When at home he was initially at home he
leant to drive and was happy with life, he’s
saying lets just go back home and forget
everything.
Saying that living in the city was too much to
take for him, the memories of living at home
have been taken away by the city and he has
to blend in or live uncomfortable
He’s lived away so long, his friends don’t
know who he is and he doesn’t know who
they are, times change and the world
changes, faster than we know it and
there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s hard
to grasp others from feeling singled out of
society