Pink Floyd Songs - Run Like Hell Lyrics

Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell

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Album: The Wall
Released: 1979

Run Like Hell Lyrics

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run.
You better make your face up in
Your favorite disguise.
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes.
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart.
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past.
With your nerves in tatters
When the conch shell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down your door.
You'd better run.

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run,
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run.
You better run all day
And run all night.
Keep your dirty feelings
Deep inside.
And if you're taking your girlfriend
Out tonight
You'd better park the car
Well out of sight.
'Cause if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks,
They're gonna send you back to mother
In a cardboard box.
You better run.

"Hey, open up!"
"Hammer, hammer"

Writer/s: WATERS, ROGER/GILMOUR, DAVID JON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Like the last few songs on The Wall, this can be summarized as Hitler's rise into power and downfall into hell just as Pink's life did in the movie The Wall. This isn't as detailed as "Waiting For the Worms", but it is a look into Hitler's terror. The entire theme is based on the dreaded Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass translated from German) on November 9th, 1938 which came during Hitler's order of terror. Nazis raided Jewish businesses and synagogues, places of recreation, even homes; throwing people out, destroying what they could. Many were killed and hundreds injured, and 7,500 business and 177 synagogues were destroyed. This is the terror that Pink in The Wall brought over citizens of his own kind. (thanks, J.I. - Pittsburgh, PA)

Producer Bob Ezrin convinced the band to use a Disco beat on this. Even though dance music was not what Pink Floyd was about, they got a good, catchy sound by putting a beat to this.

This was one of the last songs Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour wrote together. By the time they started working on The Wall, there was a lot of tension between them, which got worse on their next album and became real nasty in 1986 when Waters left and Gilmour continued Pink Floyd without him.

When they first recorded this, it was a lot longer. They had to cut it down so it would fit on the album. There was a limited amount of space on vinyl records.

If Waters and Gilmour could get along, they could go back to the master tapes and produce a longer version of this as they had recorded originally. They have not spoken in years, and Waters has no intention of ever again working with Gilmour.

Waters sang lead on this. In 1987, when Pink Floyd toured without him, Gilmour did the vocals. They usually played it as an encore.

The stage show for the tour of The Wall was very theatrical. As the band played, 340 enormous bricks formed a wall in front of them, representing the distance between the performers and their audience. During this, the wall was knocked down.

In the movie version of The Wall, the main character, a rock star named "Pink," rampages a village with a group of Skinheads. "Pink" was played by Bob Geldof.

On July 21, 1990, Waters staged a production of The Wall in Berlin to celebrate the destruction of The Berlin Wall. The 200,000 people who attended cheered wildly he played this.

The female rock group Kittie covered this in 2002.

The Wall is a concept album about a rock star whose disturbed past and excessive lifestyle causes him to slowly go insane. (thanks, Jamie - Sydney, Belgium)

On the inner sleeve of the vinyl album, both "Run, run, run..." lines Aren't printed. What's there instead is the line "You better run like hell." (thanks, Elies - Surrey, Canada)

Artist Gerald Scarf came up with the symbol of the two hammers crossed. When he was doing the animation for The Wall he wanted to have an army of hammers marching but couldn't figure out how to make a hammer "march." He then realized that two hammers together gives the illusion of two legs, so he used that method in the animation and the "crossed hammer" symbol was born. (thanks, Dogma - Alexandria, LA)