"Run" is a Britpop power ballad composed using common time in the key of C major, with a tempo of 72 beats per minute. Problems playing this file? See media help. "Run" includes guitar riffs, as noted by Adrienne Day from Spin. The words 'Light up, light up' gave me this sense of a beacon." Besides Lightbody, it was written by Quinn, Nathan Connolly, Mark McClelland and Iain Archer. I wrote Run soon after on this little guitar I'd tried to smash up in my shitty little room near Hillhead. I split my head open and my eye was closed and I lost a few teeth. Jonny Quinn found me in the stairwell with blood coming out of my head. He described: "I was on a massive bender and one night I was drinking in the bar of the Glasgow School of Art. In an interview with Michael Odell, from Q magazine, Lightbody explained the song was not written about "being a child", as he tended to say. Snow Patrol's frontman, Gary Lightbody, conceived the idea of writing "Run" in 2000.
Her performance received positive reviews and commercial success, topping the charts of Austria, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom, where it became the fastest-selling download ever after it sold 69,244 copies in just two days. "Run" has been covered by multiple artists, including Leona Lewis, who released it as a single in November 2008. Additionally, "Run" reached the Top 40 of Ireland, the Netherlands and the American Modern Rock Tracks. The single reached the top five on the UK Singles Chart in 2004, and since it has appeared multiple times in the chart. An unreleased video, directed by Mark Pellington, was also filmed. "Run" is described as a Britpop power ballad and was received with positive reviews by music critics, who compared it with Coldplay's " Yellow".Ī music video, directed by Paul Gorewas, was released to promote the song in it, band members use distress flares and motorcycles at night. The song was conceived in 2000 by frontman Gary Lightbody after an accident he had during a bender. It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2004 as the second single from the album.
" Run" is a song by Scottish-Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol from their third studio album, Final Straw (2003).
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