Hanging Around

"Hanging Around"
Album track by Charli XCX
from the album Sucker
Released	December 15, 2014
Length	3:18
Label	Asylum, Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Charlotte Aitchison, Rivers Cuomo, Justin L. Raisen, Jeremiah Raisen
Producer(s)	Justin L. Raisen
Status	Officially released

"Hanging Around" is the tenth track from Sucker, the second album by English singer Charli XCX. The song was co-written by Charli XCX alongside Rivers Cuomo, Justin Raisen, and Jeremiah Raisen.

Appearances

• Sucker (2014)

Overview

NME: Which Charli XCX album do you receive a writing credit on?

Rivers: “Um… I don’t know!” [Laughs]

—NME interview, 2024,

Charli XCX (real name Charlotte Aitchison) first revealed that she had collaborated with Rivers Cuomo in March of 2014. Said Charli XCX, "It was really cool working with Rivers. I was really surprised when he wanted to work with me. He followed me on Twitter and I was like, 'Cool! Maybe this can happen!' and then we got in touch, and I just went over to his house and we wrote two songs together in his studio in his backyard. It was so interesting working with him, just because we're from such different worlds, but he has such an interest in pop music — and in particular in the formulas in pop music, and the structure. That's something that I actually have no interest in at all, but it was really interesting working with someone who is so into that. He's just a cool, nice guy, you know? He's the kind of guy that I want to go bowling with all the time, 'cause I feel like he would let me cheat and win."

Lyrics

Help me out, I need escape
It's the truth, I got to go
With all the boys in the back alley
And all my girls in the superstore
Because we need electricity
City lights gotta glow for me
Oh, I'm more than a car park queen
So get your shit now, we got to roll

Let's blow out of this town
Too bored, hanging around
Sky high, head in the clouds
Never gonna come down
Drums, bass, turn 'em up loud
Free fall, spinning around
Sky high, head in the clouds
Never gonna come down

Take the car and cut the brakes
Driving out into the dark
Even though I love mum and dad
I wanna swim out there with the sharks
I wanna learn to speak Japanese
Razor-sharp on the silver screen
We were made for a limousine
So get your shit now and come with me

Let's blow out of this town
Too bored, hanging around
Sky high, head in the clouds
Never gonna come down
Drums, bass, turn 'em up loud
Free fall, spinning around
Sky high, head in the clouds
Never gonna come down

Blowing bubbles out in the grass
All tangled in the stars
Getting faded in the back seat
You can be hanging with us
We used to walk around the backstreets
Swimming pools with no heat
Fuck a dream, I want it for real
Always make it look so easy
Moving to the city
Take a little sip of surreal
We're much more than nothing, yeah
We're all just trying to be who we feel

Throwing cake up in the air, we don't care, no
Surfing on a silver wave, wanna let go
We're so bored of being here, we don't care, no
I wanna run, be wild and free
And with my friends standing next to me

Let's blow out of this town
Too bored, hanging around
Sky high, head in the clouds
Never gonna come down
Drums, bass, turn 'em up loud
Free fall, spinning around
Sky high, head in the clouds
Never gonna come down

Hey!
Oo-ah-ah
Oo-ah-ah
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Hey!
Oo-ah-ah
Oo-ah-ah
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Hanging around
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Oo-ah-ah
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Hanging around

See also

• List of Rivers Cuomo songs
• Rivers Cuomo discography