R&P Run for it! What are some of your favourite songs about running?

Question

Running has its rhythm, which has inspired musicians. But most song lyrics refer to metaphorical running as well as, occasionally, the actual thing.

MQ: What are your favourite songs about running?

A few of mine:

Jo Jo Gunne - "Run Run Run"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buMg7cDtlls

Brian Eno - "I'll Come Running"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFz50q_QmfE

Van der Graaf Generator" - Running Back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3K5VK3ykGQ

BQ: What are you running from?

Answer 1

Favourite answer

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Run Run Away - Slade

Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd

Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

Walk, Don’t Run - The Ventures

Before They Make Me Run - Rolling Stones

BQ: Work.  I’m on vacation this week.

Answer 2

Silent Running- Mike + The Mechanics

Answer 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eNAdz8LM5g

Answer 4

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

U2 - Running to Stand Still

The Eagles - The Long Run

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

Pat Benatar - You Better Run

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Beatles - Run for Your Life

Rod Stewart - Cut Across Shorty

Bryan Adams - Run to You

Steve Miller Band - Take the Money and Run

CCR - Run Through the Jungle

Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream

Answer 5

The Corrs - Runaway

Answer 6

Runnin' Back to Saskatoon - The Guess Who

Keep on Running - Spencer Davis Group

Answer 7

Running Up That Hill - Chromatics

Answer 8

From the most intense desire to stop me I've ever had. I'd sit down with such a thump as to make a crop circle. But I absolutely cannot, because those behind me are not my pursuers, but the ones I should reach. Maybe one day I reach them with a backward somersault.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Xlms2pj-0

Source(s): *quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, ipse sequor*

Answer 9

Run Baby Run  - The Newbeats

Band on the Run - Paul McCartney &Wings

Long Train Runnin' - The Doobie Brothers

Take It On The Run - Reo Speedwagon

Runnin' Down A Dream - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Answer 10

The Temptations - Run Away Child Running Wild

John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band - Runnin' Thru The Fire

Bryan Adams - Run To You

CCR - Run through the Jungle

Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

Answer 11

Ha!!!

No one even thought of the Yes song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFdkr2_UKgA