Run for Your Life
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"Run for Your Life" | ||||
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Song by The Beatles | ||||
Album | Rubber Soul | |||
Released | 3 December 1965 | |||
Recorded | 12 October 1965, EMI Studios, London |
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Genre | Folk rock, pop rockTemplate:Sfn | |||
Length | 2:18 | |||
Label | Parlophone | |||
Writer | Lennon/McCartney | |||
Producer | George Martin | |||
Rubber Soul track listing | ||||
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“ | 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. Just sort of a throw-away song of mine that I never thought much of... but it was always a favourite of George's. | „ |
—John Lennon, The Playboy Interviews, 1980 |
“ | John was always on the run, running for his life. He was married; whereas none of my songs would have 'catch you with another man.' 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. A bit of a macho song. It was largely John's. | „ |
—Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, p.279, 1994 |
“ | I never liked 'Run For Your Life,' because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from — this is a very vague connection — from 'Baby Let’s Play House.' 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. | „ |
—John Lennon, Rolling Stone interview, by Jann Wenner, 1971 |
Check out "classic" Elvis performing 'Baby Let's Play House'...