"Run" as written by and Bernard (gb 2)/hook Sumner....
Answer me
Why won't you answer me
I can't recall the day that I last heard from you
Well you don't get a town like this for nothing
So here's what you've got to do
You work your way to the top of the world
Then you break your life in two
Well what's the use in complaining
When you've got what you don't need
Anyone would think you were hard done to
What do you want me to believe
What the hell is happening
I can't think of everything
I don't know what day it is
Or who I'm talking to
But I know that I'm ok
'Cause you're here with me today
I haven't got a single problem
Now that I'm with you
So what's the use in complaining
When you've got everything you need
Anyone would think you were hard done to
What do you want me to believe
Why won't you answer me
I can't recall the day that I last heard from you
Well you don't get a town like this for nothing
So here's what you've got to do
You work your way to the top of the world
Then you break your life in two
Well what's the use in complaining
When you've got what you don't need
Anyone would think you were hard done to
What do you want me to believe
What the hell is happening
I can't think of everything
I don't know what day it is
Or who I'm talking to
But I know that I'm ok
'Cause you're here with me today
I haven't got a single problem
Now that I'm with you
So what's the use in complaining
When you've got everything you need
Anyone would think you were hard done to
What do you want me to believe
Lyrics submitted by numb, edited by radio4head
"Run" as written by Gilliam Gilbert Bernard Sumner
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I have always assumed the lyrics is about someone who has worked hard to become sucessful (sacrifing their personal relationship to some degree) and their partner is complaining... could of course be completely wrong but its the tune that makes it memorable.
Supposedly it's just the guitar melody in the break that is similar to Leaving on a Jet Plane. So for subsequent releases, they don't include it.
The Denver case was settled out of court, I think. It seems baffling when you think you know both songs. Isn't it about a faint melodic similarity between the last line of the verse (also in the guitar)? "I hate to wake you UP to say goodbye" with "I can't recall the day *when I* last heard from you"? There are extra beats in Run, but the interval is similar.
In Run Wild (another song by NO), the parent won't give up their child to Jesus/Jehovah because the parent "loves" their child so much, they can't let go (i.e., more pedophilia). Look at the album cover art of Get Ready, you will see the kid shooting back.
I hear a couple of things differently:
"Well you don't get a tan like this for nothing"
They recorded this album in Ibiza, and they're all from Manchester where it never stops raining.
and
"Anyone would think you were hard done to"
to feel "hard done to" meaning to feel "not treated fairly" or "taken advantage of unfairly"