In "Kids," Noah Rinker looks back on a childhood love that once felt endless, remembering backyard games and secret late-night calls on a hidden phone. Now they drive separate roads, and he plays bars while she is far away, leaving only the ache of old dreams and cloud-watching days when nothing was at stake. Growing up was just a phrase then, but distance has made it real, and the repeated confession of being in love carries the weight of something lost to time.
Kids Lyrics by Noah Rinker
We were kids who played in the yard
Just afraid of the dark
Still the way that we are, but it’s different
Now
We’re driving in cars
And I’ve been playing in bars
And you’re probably far away from here
Away from here
Now I’m thinking ’bout all the dreaming we used to do
Finding shapes in the clouds on the days when we had nothing else to lose
We didn’t know how bad it burns
‘Cause growing up was just some words
When we were kids
When we were kids
Back when we wrote “Have a Great Summer”
I asked for your number
So I could call you at midnight
From that old iPhone that my parents didn’t know
I was hiding in the drawer till they found out
But we were in love
And what was I supposed to do?
We were in love
Now I’m thinking ’bout all the dreaming we used to do
Finding shapes in the clouds on the days when we had nothing else to lose
We didn’t know how bad it burns
‘Cause growing up was just some words
When we were kids
When we were kids
We were in love
We were in love
We were in love
We were in love
We were kids who played in the yard
Just afraid of the dark
Still the way that we are, but it’s different
Now
It’s so different now
