Run for Your Life (Beatles song)
| "Run for Your Life" | |
|---|---|
| Song by the Beatles | |
| from the album Rubber Soul | |
| Published | Northern Songs |
| Released | 3 December 1965 |
| Recorded | 12 October 1965, EMI Studios, London |
| Genre | |
| Length | 2:18 |
| Label | Parlophone |
| Songwriter(s) | Lennon–McCartney |
| Producer(s) | George Martin |
"Run for Your Life" is a song recorded by the Beatles for their 1965 album Rubber Soul. Though credited to "Lennon–McCartney", it was primarily a John Lennon composition.
The song's 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." The line was taken from an early Elvis Presley song, "Baby, Let's Play House" (written by Arthur Gunter and Buddy Holly) . Lennon designated it as his "least favorite Beatles song" in a 1973 interview and later said it was the song he most regretted writing. He also stated that it was one of George Harrison's favourites on Rubber Soul at that time, despite Lennon's dislike of it.
Lennon would revisit this theme in a more apologetic fashion with his post-Beatles song "Jealous Guy".
Ian MacDonald criticised the vocal performance and added these comments about the guitar: "The guitar-work, some of which is badly out of tune, is similarly rough, the piercingly simplistic blues solo suggesting that the player was not Harrison but Lennon himself."
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 Albany, New York.
The song was also recorded by Gary Lewis & the Playboys on their album, She's Just My Style, which was released in March 1966. Johnny Rivers also released the song in 1966 on his live album ...And I Know You Wanna Dance.Thee Headcoatees also covered it on their album "Girlsville" in 1991.
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