16 Oct run for your life beatles
Better to sing about it than actually do it. Come on. I guess it’s not the worst thing to be the “worst” song on the tightest sounding album of all time.
But on Rubber Soul, “Run For Your Life” is sorely out of place. Well, everyone’s got an opinion. Help! It has a line from an old Presley song: “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man” is a line from an old blues song that Presley did once.
), when the world got a lot stalkier and women were a lot less shy about saying, “hey! Such a creepy song.
I’m trying to think about if listening to this song in the wake of my 2.5 years relationship ending and her now dating someone 13 years younger than her is cathartic or am I tapping into something that I shouldn’t be messing with? If you asked John at another time he probably would have said it was his favorite song on Rubber Soul. It’s just a piece of music after all. I’ve always felt that it would’ve sounded more at home on “Beatles For Sale”.
It was written primarily by John Lennon, though credited to Lennon–McCartney.
I think I agree with many of the seemingly incompatible opinions previously expressed: 1.
It’s there, we’re Beatles fans, and we just learn to live with it! Just one more little note…I used to write songs sometimes. They all got cut except Run for Your Life and Norwegian Wood, which made it onto Rubber Soul. Rubber Soul: pot and alcohol Revolver: acid, pot, and alcohol Both: genius and imagination. In My Life – what's happening in your life currently? Apart from What goes On, that was a marketing duty, the rest of the album contains a “history changer” list of songs, amongst them, the great Run for your life. Is this a weak song?
For the likely intended meaning, it should be “I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to SEE YOU with another man.”. A commenter above suggested that the song is better suited to the “Beatles For Sale” album. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'beatlesbible_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_5',139,'0','0']));The song with which The Beatles began the Rubber Soul sessions, John Lennon’s ‘Run For Your Life’ was based around a line from an Elvis Presley song.
I tolerate. It might be the least adventurous and most formulaic song that Lennon ever wrote.
A strong finish. Yeah, there probably was an undertone to Run For Your Life related to John’s (now) well-documented turbulent marriage to Cynthia (combined-with: 1965 being his self-loathing, “Fat Elvis Period”)…HOWEVER: listen closely to stuff all the way back through to, for instance, YOU CAN’T DO THAT and — his SAME kind of snide (BRILLIANTLY ENGLISH) sarcasm is THERE TOO! I’m amazed at the amount of people disliking the song (or even hating it) for its lyrical subject. The Beatles always wrote songs about topics like love, togetherness, life decisions, struggles ... even drug use.
These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Written by: Lennon-McCartney Recorded: 12 October 1965 Producer: George Martin Engineer: Norman Smith, Released: 3 December 1965 (UK), 6 December 1965 (US). But just as that was the last track of ‘Revolver’ and left listeners in awe, “Run For Your Life” served up the same level of shock to fans eight months earlier. “Hide your head in the sand” is textbook signature Beatles absurdism.
Most of them play guitar in the basement of their mother’s house and are brain dead from sniffing glue!
Perhaps Johnny Cash did his own version? It seems to me that he’s “in character” here, portraying the kind of man that far too many women fall in love with and then have good cause to regret it. I can live with the lyrics. A little note Martin must have liked it.under his production he believed in starting an album with a strong song and ending with something hard to follow.its a fact he was quoted in sessions.ie a day I. Lennon's bandmate, Paul McCartney, told author Barry Miles that he thought the song actually reflected Lennon's life in some way.
Yes, I do like George’s Chet Atkins-like guitar licks on the song; that’s the one positive part of it. I think it’s a great song, the lyrics perfectly match the mind of a jealous man (and I well know this).
I’m not sure how someone couldn’t like this song. The line goes, "I'd rather see you dead, little girl than to be with another man."
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I feel like once in a while John would just come up with a song to see what he could get away with…and his voice is so good on this song that they definately get away with the rather malicious lyrics.
There was a line on it – I used to like specific lines from songs – ‘I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man’ – so I wrote it around that but I didn’t think it was that important. Maybe You Won’t See Me, but I really like Paul’s vocals and the harmonies. I guess what “Run For Your Life” does is kind of lighten up a rather introspective album. I think that the reason why he said he “hated” it is because of 2 reasons; 1–He lifted a line from “Baby Let’s Play House” for the lyrics, and 2–The arrangement is very much in a rockabilly-type vein, which they were very well-versed in, being admirers if Carl Perkins. I’m curious why no one seems to call attention to the apparent homophobia (or grammatical faux pas) of this song’s first line: “I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man.” It actually says that if he had to choose between having a gay sexual encounter (“be with another man”) and witnessing the death of his partner (“see you dead”), he’d prefer the latter.
I listen to it over and over in my truck, turning it up each time. that’s not cool” that people started feeling squicky about this song – seems to me.
I’ve been listening to both RS and Revolver a lot over the last year, and have recently come to the conclusion that RS is an alcohol album, and Revolver is a pot album. eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'beatlesbible_com-box-4','ezslot_13',141,'0','0']));The lyrics recall Lennon’s previous excursions into misogyny, ‘I’ll Cry Instead’ and ‘You Can’t Do That’, both from A Hard Day’s Night. Not that that’s a bad thing, but the music was not a stretch for them circa late-1965, it was old hat by then, not too ground breaking.
Oh but that is the pure beauty of their music. Just a sort of throwaway song of mine that I never thought much of, but it was always a favourite of George’s.
=). Leave feedback, The song lyrics establish a threatening tone towards the singer's unnamed girlfriend (referred to throughout the song as "little girl"), claiming "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man". Hey, I don’t think you’re totally correct here. But they were not always on drugs I bet.
One more thing about “Run for Your Life” – I wonder why this song bothers me lyrically whereas “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, which is equally nasty, does not. I think the point someone made above, about Hey Joe, is well taken, and at the time of their release, songs with these types of sentiments probably weren’t a big deal.
I lot of people dislike it because John, in one of his passive moods, said he hated it. It reminds me very much of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer in that you’re singing along to it and all of a sudden you listen to the words and you’re like, “Whaaaa..?” I don’t think it’s necessarily a malicious song — but I was thinking maybe it was written by someone like Johnny Cash and the Beatles reworked it into a an entirely different tempo/interpretation.
Go directly to shout page. My bigger concern is that Lennon ripped off a line from a young songwriter who died in his late 40s. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website.
It was loosely based upon ‘I Want To Play House With You’, a 1951 country and western hit for Eddy Arnold, written by Cy Coben. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies.
John didn’t play any electric guitar.
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"Just a sort of throwaway song of mine that I never thought much of, but it was always a favourite of George's," Lennon recalled in the novel All We Are Saying by David Sheff.
What Goes On would probably be the worst song on the album and maybe the worst Beatles song at all – if it wasn’t for Run For Your Life.
Agree.
The Beatles Bible uses cookies to bring you a better browsing experience. It was never a concern of mine, at all, because I had a girlfriend and I would go with other girls; it was a perfectly open relationship so I wasn’t as worried about that as John was. Gunter’s song was a fairly straightforward statement of desire. Sounds like some serious homophobia on John’s part (although it was really Arthur Gunter who penned that dreadful lyric originally).
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