lovers on the run songs

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"The Get Away" -- Pretty Girls Make Graves
"The Road Goes On Forever" -- Robert Earl Keen
and of course...
"Thunder Road"

― Jesse Fox, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

and every single song on "Nebraska"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Rod Stewart - Young Turks (! - one of my secret favorite songs)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The Shangri-La's, "I Can Never Go Home Anymore"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Recognition Scene" Mountain Goats (amongst many others, I guess)

Oh, and,
"Take The Money And Run" Steve Miller

― wl (wl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Love is a Battlefield"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a light - The smiths
- although its a little lame in the sense that they dont actually do anything and he doesn't plan on getting very far, and its not quite clear if they're lovers or anything...

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say not lovers on "There Is A Light." It's more like the narrator feels a lot of sexual tension/desire, but can't act upon it: "and in the darken underpass/ I thought, 'Oh God, my chance has come at last,' but then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask."

(This actually hits close to home, but by the same token literally asking, in contrast to the sentiment of another Smiths song, isn't always the best route to getting what you want.)

Anyway, good call on pegging that as a lovers-on-the-run deal, even if they're not quite lovers and just on the run about town.

― wl (wl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Fireball -- Ducks Deluxe.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Motley Crue - "Public Enemy #1"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Re. "There Is a Light...": that song is so beautiful, it manages to convey a number of things, from specific to universal (joy and terror of discovering one's own sexuality, the need to belong, the death wish, all mixed up together), without being at all didactic. The Derek Jarman video is wonderful too.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

wl - Is that really your email ? Was there NOTHING ELSE left ?

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Amatuerist - I never saw the video, what happens ?

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not really a "what happens" video--it's more a series of haunting images that amplify the emotions in the song. Rent that Smiths video compilation; it's on there.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

KBrady-- Yeah, it's my e-mail. Or just an idle thought. Anything to that domain comes to me, actually. Makes me sound like an asshole, huh? Might be accurate.

Amateurist-- You're on the mark re: "There Is A Light." I think I might've been too literal, pinning it down too much. It's quite complicated, if still a bit, mmmm, adolescent. (Not a bad thing.)

― wl (wl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

WL, I didn't mean my post as a correction to yours; I actually wrote it before I had read yours

Re. the video, I actually wasn't attuned to all the emotions of the song until I saw it. That's what a video is supposed to achieve, yet so few do.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Cool, but it also sorta served as such. Which is fine.

― dub you well (wl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

obviously: Tatu - Not Gonna Get Us

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The New Caledonians - "Don't Let Pappy Catch You With That Bun In Your Oven, Nancy"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Runaway - Del Shannon

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe Serge's "Bonnie & Clyde?" I've long since lost the ability to read French, so maybe not.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

tom waits - 'burma shave'

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

'I Think We're Alone Now' - Tommy James or Tiffany
'500 (Shake Baby Shake)' by Lush? (Let's run away and be so alive/Escape the drudgery of this 9 to 5..)

― Alexis, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Runaways-"Dead End Justice"

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"The 6-Teens"-Sweet

― Charles McCain, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jackson," sorta

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

There Is A Light always strikes me as a song about someone trying to replace someone else, transferring their "love" for the previous person to the new person to not feel the pain of loss....ie the line about how it's not his home, it's their home and he's wanted no more. The ex has moved on to a new person, so he is forcing himself to be totally "in love" with new person.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting. I've never heard it that way. I always presume "their home" meant his parents' home, and he's this sad outcast (gay) child who can't be himself there. I've always presumed this song was set in the singer's adolescence.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean. 'No more love on the run....'

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Miller Band - "Take the Money and Run"!!!!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

paul simon - fifty ways to leave your lover

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

it's immaterial - driving away from home
lionel ritchie - running with the night.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 27 February 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dark End of the Street"--perhaps the ultimate lovers-on-the-run songs, despite the fact that it's fairly clear that they're never going anywhere. Though this is, techincally, a soul song, my fave version is my Richard and Linda Thompson from Richard's Guitar, Vocal album. There's something about the stark folkie setting and those two voices together that really brings out the dread in the song. I mean, they way they sing "They're gonna find us" makes it sound like "They're gonna find us, AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US."

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

. . . "by Richard and Linda Thompson," that is.

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Deanna" by Nick Cave.

― Ian Johnson, Thursday, 27 February 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"Strangeways Inside" - Mull Historical Society

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 28 February 2003 03:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Wings. "Baaaaand, on the run!"

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 28 February 2003 05:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"I think we're alone now" is *clearly* about a pair of terrrorists running from the police after planting a bomb. Go listen to it again.

― Dave Fischer, Friday, 28 February 2003 05:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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