Run for Your Life
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| "Run for Your Life" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| from the album Rubber Soul | ||
| Released | December 3, 1965 | |
| Recorded | November 11, 1965 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 2:18 | |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| Writer(s) | John Lennon (Lennon-McCartney) | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Rubber Soul track listing | ||
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"Run for Your Life" is a song recorded by the Beatles for their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
The song, while credited to "Lennon/McCartney" (as were all Beatles songs by either composer), was primarily a John Lennon composition. Reflecting his negative, even misogynistic view of male-female relationships at the time, 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". Lennon designated this song his "least favorite Beatles song" in a 1973 interview, and later said it was the song he most regretted writing.
The line "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man", which was the initial inspiration of the song, is actually a direct lift from the Elvis Presley song "Baby, Let's Play House". Lennon admitted this in a number of interviews. He also stated that this song was one of George Harrison's favourite songs on Rubber Soul at that time despite Lennon's dislike of it.[1]
Lennon would revisit this theme in a more apologetic fashion with his post-Beatles song "Jealous Guy".
A 1966 version of "Run for Your Life" performed by Nancy Sinatra was released on her album Boots. Although it did not chart nationally, this version experienced regional success at such stations as WPTR in New York.
Beatles' spoof thrash metal band Beatallica recorded a version of this song in a live gig in Cleveland, Ohio, with only some alterations to the lyrics, and not changing the title. [1]
The song was also recorded by Gary Lewis & the Playboys on their album "She's Just My Style," released in March 1966, and by Robert Gordon on "Lost Album Plus...," released May 20, 1998.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Playboy Interviews With John Lennon and Yoko Ono; conducted by David Sheff; edited by G. Barry Golson; Playboy Press, New York: 1981
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