hello all
I hope this illuminates some of your points of view :)
This was Snow Patrol's breakthrough British single. 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 in this little guitar I'd tried to smash up in my S--t little room near Hillhead. The words 'Light up, light up' gave this sense of a beacon. There had to be a light at the end of a tunnel."
Jonny Quinn is the nephew of the Northern Ireland TV and film actress Patricia Quinn, whose credits include The Rocky Horror Show, I Claudius and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)
In 2008 a cover by Leona Lewis was included on the deluxe version of her Spirit album. After a show-stopping rendering by the singer on the X-Factor TV program provoked an ecstatic public reaction, Snow Patrol's original returned to the Top 30 of the UK charts. Such was the sudden demand for this song that in the same week an instrumental remake by karaoke specialists Ameritz also entered the UK Top 75. A couple of week's later Lewis' version was issued as a download only release and it went straight in at #1 on the UK singles chart.
Thank you Nicole. The history behind how it was written is really helpful.
The title of the song is Run. The first verse seems to be about running away from somewhere in fear of your life and two people not knowing if they will ever see one another because of this.
But as it goes on it seems to be talking about a sense of separation of an emotional kind: "an easier way out of our little heads".
It manages to be both at the same time. It could be many things: the fear of losing someone to death or in death, a...
Thank you Nicole. The history behind how it was written is really helpful.
The title of the song is Run. The first verse seems to be about running away from somewhere in fear of your life and two people not knowing if they will ever see one another because of this.
But as it goes on it seems to be talking about a sense of separation of an emotional kind: "an easier way out of our little heads".
It manages to be both at the same time. It could be many things: the fear of losing someone to death or in death, a relationship breakup, families broken in war.
It is about running away on your own but also running to somewhere better where you will be together again. Love and hope.
hello all I hope this illuminates some of your points of view :)
This was Snow Patrol's breakthrough British single. 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 in this little guitar I'd tried to smash up in my S--t little room near Hillhead. The words 'Light up, light up' gave this sense of a beacon. There had to be a light at the end of a tunnel." Jonny Quinn is the nephew of the Northern Ireland TV and film actress Patricia Quinn, whose credits include The Rocky Horror Show, I Claudius and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2) In 2008 a cover by Leona Lewis was included on the deluxe version of her Spirit album. After a show-stopping rendering by the singer on the X-Factor TV program provoked an ecstatic public reaction, Snow Patrol's original returned to the Top 30 of the UK charts. Such was the sudden demand for this song that in the same week an instrumental remake by karaoke specialists Ameritz also entered the UK Top 75. A couple of week's later Lewis' version was issued as a download only release and it went straight in at #1 on the UK singles chart.
Confirmation of my thoughts, thank you for posting this.
Confirmation of my thoughts, thank you for posting this.
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Thank you Nicole. The history behind how it was written is really helpful. The title of the song is Run. The first verse seems to be about running away from somewhere in fear of your life and two people not knowing if they will ever see one another because of this. But as it goes on it seems to be talking about a sense of separation of an emotional kind: "an easier way out of our little heads". It manages to be both at the same time. It could be many things: the fear of losing someone to death or in death, a...
Thank you Nicole. The history behind how it was written is really helpful. The title of the song is Run. The first verse seems to be about running away from somewhere in fear of your life and two people not knowing if they will ever see one another because of this. But as it goes on it seems to be talking about a sense of separation of an emotional kind: "an easier way out of our little heads". It manages to be both at the same time. It could be many things: the fear of losing someone to death or in death, a relationship breakup, families broken in war. It is about running away on your own but also running to somewhere better where you will be together again. Love and hope.