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Foo Fighters

Run

Release date: 14th September 2017

From Concrete and Gold
Track 2
5:23
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About This Track

'Run' opens with an urgent call to wake and flee, the song built on a simple, propulsive rhythm that builds from a soft intro into something heavier. Dave Grohl's vocals arrive distorted and forceful over the verse, then pull back into a melodic pre-chorus before the track swells into its weightier chorus. The architecture is deliberate: restraint and release, tension and catharsis. Lyrically, the song frames escape as both literal and metaphorical. Rats on parade, hounds on the chase, everything erased, the imagery suggests a world collapsing under its own chaos, yet the repeated offer to run together carries an odd hopefulness. There's an invitation embedded in the urgency, a suggestion that movement itself, shared movement, might be the only available freedom. The song doesn't resolve the contradiction; it lives inside it, pumping forward regardless.

"Run" is a single by Foo Fighters, from the album Concrete and Gold, released 14th September 2017. The track is 5:23 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Foo Fighters.

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Lyrics

Run

Wake up
Run for your life with me
Wake up
Run for your life with me

In another perfect life
In another perfect light
We run
We run
We run

The rats are on parade
Another mad charade
What you gonna do?
The hounds are on the chase
Everything's erased
What you gonna do?

I need some room to breath
You can stay asleep
If you wanted to
They say that nothing's free
You can run with me
If you wanted to
Yeah, you can run with me
If you wanted to

Before the time runs out
There's somewhere to run
Wake up
Run for your life with me
Wake up
Run for your life with me

In another perfect life
In another perfect light
We run
We run
We run
Run

We are the nation's stakes
If everything's erased
What you gonna do?
I need some room to breathe
You can run with me
If you wanted to
Yeah you can run with me
If you wanted to

Before the time runs out
There's somewhere to run
Wake up
Run for your life with me
Wake up
Run for your life with me

In another perfect life
In another perfect light
We run
We run
We run
Run

Wake up
Run for your life with me
Wake up
Run for your life with me

In another perfect life
In another perfect light
We run
We run
We run
Run

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Track details

From Concrete and Gold

5:232017Single
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Concrete and Gold
Concrete and Gold
Foo Fighters
15th September 2017
Track number
2
Release year
2017
  1. 1T-Shirt
    1:23
  2. 2Run
    5:23
  3. 3Make It Right
    4:39
  4. 4The Sky Is a Neighborhood
    4:05
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    • Credits

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    Writer
    Chris Shiflett, Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, Taylor Hawkins
    Producer
    Greg Kurstin
    Bass
    Nate Mendel
    Drums
    Taylor Hawkins
    Guitar
    Chris Shiflett, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear
    Keyboards
    Rami Jaffee
    Lead Vocals
    Dave Grohl
    Mellotron
    Rami Jaffee
    Organ
    Rami Jaffee
    Percussion
    Chris Shiflett, Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, Taylor Hawkins
    Piano
    Greg Kurstin
    Synthesizer
    Rami Jaffee
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