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About This Track
“Run” is a song by alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released as the second single from their third album Final Straw. It brought the band its first taste of mainstream success, reaching #5 on the UK charts. The song has also been covered by Tre Lux in 2006, by Three Graces in 2008 and Leona Lewis in 2008.
In Australia, the song was ranked #77 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2004.
Written by Lightbody, McClelland (now with Little Doses), Quinn, Archer, Connelly
Lead singer Gary Lightbody said of the song in Q Magazine April 2007: “I’ve never told anyone before and I don’t want to spoil it for people because it has its own meaning for them. But in 2000 I was on a massive bender and one night I was drinking in the bar of the Glasgow School Of Art. I fell down a full flight of stairs. Jonny Quinn (Snow Patrol’s drummer) found me in the stairwell with blood coming out of my head. He said I looked like a police chalk line and he thought I was dead.
I was very lucky. A fall like that could easily finish you off. I split my head open and my eye was closed and I lost a few teeth. I was put on a plane to see my mum and dad and they were terrified when they saw me. I wrote Run soon after…The words ‘Light up, light up’ gave this sense of a beacon. There had to be a light at the end of a tunnel.”
In Australia, the song was ranked #77 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2004.
Written by Lightbody, McClelland (now with Little Doses), Quinn, Archer, Connelly
Lead singer Gary Lightbody said of the song in Q Magazine April 2007: “I’ve never told anyone before and I don’t want to spoil it for people because it has its own meaning for them. But in 2000 I was on a massive bender and one night I was drinking in the bar of the Glasgow School Of Art. I fell down a full flight of stairs. Jonny Quinn (Snow Patrol’s drummer) found me in the stairwell with blood coming out of my head. He said I looked like a police chalk line and he thought I was dead.
I was very lucky. A fall like that could easily finish you off. I split my head open and my eye was closed and I lost a few teeth. I was put on a plane to see my mum and dad and they were terrified when they saw me. I wrote Run soon after…The words ‘Light up, light up’ gave this sense of a beacon. There had to be a light at the end of a tunnel.”
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Final Straw
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Shouts
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Zoe_Amber wrote:
Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear (с) ♥♥♥
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Unriiipe wrote:
\m/
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AnIslandGurl wrote:
Sooooooooooo beautiful!! ♥
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yuronmyarm192 wrote:
Haunting. Takes me back...
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Joeawefm wrote:
I like this original version~
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GenesisOrbit wrote:
This song will always remind me of the "romance of the jedi" spoof video I saw years ago lol. Good song though!
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Paolavox wrote:
I hate Leona Lewis for destroying this INCREDIBLE SONG and beeing so succesfull with it... [5]
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rikrijean wrote:
~~~~~OUTSTANDING~~~~~~
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hoellenmatilde wrote:
I hate Leona Lewis
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MasterXfm wrote:
Ah so truthful masterpiece.. I hate that emotional feelings, when u meet absolutely fantastic girl, but for some reasons you can't stay together.. so I'll sing it one last time for you, Then we really have to go..
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pantseeker wrote:
I haven't heard this song in years, then today I hear it and the memories from my youth come flooding back... Wow how time flies and how different we have all become from what we once were. I will never forget my youth, with songs like this.
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martsusixx wrote:
so amazingly beautiful but kinda sad
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Olessa28 wrote:
I hate Leona Lewis for destroying this INCREDIBLE SONG and beeing so succesfull with it... [4]
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Retrospektive wrote:
Awesome! Keeps me alive!
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okokoo wrote:
coldplay steals music!!!!! i think they stole this song style!
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AnnGrace1 wrote:
I hate Leona Lewis for destroying this INCREDIBLE SONG and beeing so succesfull with it... [3]
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papermoon13 wrote:
Sounds a bit like Coldplay.
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AvatarJC wrote:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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kaftoskaitsiou wrote:
What a great song!
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pristorres wrote:
I hate Leona Lewis for destroying this INCREDIBLE SONG and beeing so succesfull with it... [2]
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