From '' The Lost Album, Plus... ''
Label: Bear Family Records – BCD 16251 AH
Format: CD
Country: Germany
Released: 1998
Tracklist
01. She's Not Mine Anymore
02. It Hurts So Much
03. Run For Your Life
04. One Day Left
05. Suspicion
06. Movin' Too Slow
07. You Girl
08. I Found You
09. Signs Of Love
10. Wasting My Time
11. Girl Like You
12. So Young So Bad
13. If This Is Wrong
14. Blue Eyes (Don't Run Away)
15. Is This The Way
16. Endless Sleep
17. Woman (You're My Woman)
18. Sweet Surrender)
19. It's In The Bottle
20. Sea Cruise (Single Version)
21. Fire (Single Version)
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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\", was primarily a John Lennon composition.
Background
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\".
That line was taken from the Elvis Presley song \"Baby, Let's Play House\" written by Arthur Gunter.
Lennon designated this song his \"least favourite Beatles song\" in a 1973 interview, and later said it was the song he most regretted writing.
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.
Lennon would revisit this theme in a more apologetic fashion with his post-Beatles song \"Jealous Guy\".
Personnel
John Lennon -- vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney -- harmony vocal, bass
George Harrison -- harmony vocal, lead guitar
Ringo Starr -- drums, tambourine
Personnel per Ian MacDonald
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.\"
Covers
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,\" released in March 1966, by Johnny Rivers on his live album ...and i know you wanna dance in 1966, and by Robert Gordon on \"Lost Album Plus...,\" released 20 May 1998.
In the early 1990s, the song was banned by Ottawa radio station CFRA for its allegedly misogynistic message. When the radio station was asked if it had also banned Presley's \"Baby, Let's Play House\", the program director confessed to not being familiar with that song. Upon listening to the Presley song, however, the program director banned it as well.[citation needed]
British girl group Thee Headcoatees covered the song on their 1991 album \"Girlsville\". In their version, the genders were swapped to reflect the female vocalist (for example: \"Run for your life if you can, little boy\").
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Lyrics
Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am.
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end little girl.
Well you know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line.
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end little girl.
Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I've said
Baby, I'm determined
And I'd rather see you dead.
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end little girl.
Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or you won't know where I am.
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end little girl.
