I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
This time I'ma make a lil', a lil' ah
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
(Say what?) Alkaholiks in this bitch,
Smoke something, drink something
Run wild, run wild
Niggas, bitches, back again to get it cracking
Smoked a blunt, drunk a brew, turned around and look what happened
(What you working with?) Official party clique
Weed smoking drunk, O.D.B. Bob Marley shit
(We got that shit) so ladies come and get it
Custom-fitted flows for all the hoes that's fucking with it
(Liks coming thick) so where the party at?
You know how we act once we buzzed off that Cognac
What you want to do? (What you want to do?)
What you want to do?
Look who's in front of you, crazy old Likwid Crew
What you gonna do?
Get it popping now
It ain't no stopping now, busters we knocking out
(You must be off that rum) I was born to bust
Some say I cuss too much, but I don't give a fuck
Where's it coming from?
It's coming from the soul
Hip-Hop and rock'n'roll, we bout to lose control
[Chorus]
We run wild, run wild! Run wild, run wild!
(run, run, run, run)
We run wild, run wild! Run wild, run wild!
(run, run, run, run) [Repeats: x6]
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
(Run wild) off that gin and tonic
Alkaholiks coming through, smoking all why y'all niggas chronic
(Why you tripping on me?) Straight black and blue
Yo I ain't know homey that bitch I fucked was married to you
Tell me bout your flows
My flow is lethal
J-Swift and Rico smash mics like the repo
(Can we po' some mo'?) Got beer
Listen here, why y'all niggas could fight, but not in here
Whatcha want to do?
Where the smokey smoke?
Man I just broke a note, up in the club I'm choke
What you gonna do?
We came to beat it up
Break it on down and clown, order another round
(Do the damn thing) Please examine the
Way that we damage ya, peace out to Canada
(These fools can't hang) We running wild tonight
With a new style tonight, we bout to
[Chorus]
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
{"Run run") we go all out to ball out
CaTash be running wild like, who let the dogs out?
(Run wild) break yourself through the maze
We rocking ninety-thousand underground at the raves
(Say what?) Dialogue is strange, I wrote this in the rain
I do what I do then I pop that champagne
Pop that champagne
I rap passionate
Bitch, make yo' breath stink, and house party crashing it
Whatcha want to do?
We came to rock for y'all
And it don't stop at all, we bout to have a ball
Whatcha gonna do?
I want to dance with ya
Pose for the camera, are you a fan of the
L-I-K-S
I like the sound of that
Keep it around the map, hip-hop is coming back
Best from the West
We got the shit tonight
Get with Lik-wid tonight, we bout to
[Chorus]
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
(Say what?) Alkaholiks in this bitch,
Smoke something, drink something
Run wild, run wild
Niggas, bitches, back again to get it cracking
Smoked a blunt, drunk a brew, turned around and look what happened
(What you working with?) Official party clique
Weed smoking drunk, O.D.B. Bob Marley shit
(We got that shit) so ladies come and get it
Custom-fitted flows for all the hoes that's fucking with it
(Liks coming thick) so where the party at?
You know how we act once we buzzed off that Cognac
What you want to do? (What you want to do?)
What you want to do?
Look who's in front of you, crazy old Likwid Crew
What you gonna do?
Get it popping now
It ain't no stopping now, busters we knocking out
(You must be off that rum) I was born to bust
Some say I cuss too much, but I don't give a fuck
Where's it coming from?
It's coming from the soul
Hip-Hop and rock'n'roll, we bout to lose control
[Chorus]
We run wild, run wild! Run wild, run wild!
(run, run, run, run)
We run wild, run wild! Run wild, run wild!
(run, run, run, run) [Repeats: x6]
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
(Run wild) off that gin and tonic
Alkaholiks coming through, smoking all why y'all niggas chronic
(Why you tripping on me?) Straight black and blue
Yo I ain't know homey that bitch I fucked was married to you
Tell me bout your flows
My flow is lethal
J-Swift and Rico smash mics like the repo
(Can we po' some mo'?) Got beer
Listen here, why y'all niggas could fight, but not in here
Whatcha want to do?
Where the smokey smoke?
Man I just broke a note, up in the club I'm choke
What you gonna do?
We came to beat it up
Break it on down and clown, order another round
(Do the damn thing) Please examine the
Way that we damage ya, peace out to Canada
(These fools can't hang) We running wild tonight
With a new style tonight, we bout to
[Chorus]
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
{"Run run") we go all out to ball out
CaTash be running wild like, who let the dogs out?
(Run wild) break yourself through the maze
We rocking ninety-thousand underground at the raves
(Say what?) Dialogue is strange, I wrote this in the rain
I do what I do then I pop that champagne
Pop that champagne
I rap passionate
Bitch, make yo' breath stink, and house party crashing it
Whatcha want to do?
We came to rock for y'all
And it don't stop at all, we bout to have a ball
Whatcha gonna do?
I want to dance with ya
Pose for the camera, are you a fan of the
L-I-K-S
I like the sound of that
Keep it around the map, hip-hop is coming back
Best from the West
We got the shit tonight
Get with Lik-wid tonight, we bout to
[Chorus]
Come on everybody Tha Likwid crew
Is coming through your town and we're running wild
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Run Wild Lyrics as written by Eric Brooks Dana Stinson
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