"The Boys of Summer" is about looking back on a past relationship and wanting your ex back - wanting to return to what you had. The first verse depicts how the writer is left behind. His ex has moved on but he hasn't and still hangs onto hope: But babe, I'm gonna get you back I'm gonna show you what I'm made of Those days are gone forever I should just let them go but... At first he is hanging onto hope but then he realizes that he must let go. The "boys of summer" could refer to the boys his ex is now seeing, and how they are just summer flings, while he is in it for the long haul.
Don Henley told the NME that he really did see a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. Said the Eagles frontman: "I was driving down the San Diego freeway and got passed by a $21,000 Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the right-wing upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie – all the guys with the blue blazers with the crests and the grey pants – and there was this Grateful Dead 'Deadhead' bumper sticker on it!"
The opening lines, "Nobody on the roads, nobody on the beach," refer to the California coast as summer turns into fall. It becomes a much quieter place when the weather gets cold.
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