After guitarist Nathan Connolly joined the group in 2002, Snow Patrol signed a contract with Fiction Records and began recording a new album alongside producer Chris Lord-Alge. With the power ballad "Run" serving as its lead single, the album Final Straw became the band's breakthrough hit, spinning off four Top 40 singles in the U.K. and eventually selling more than four million copies worldwide.
The song "Run" written by Gary Lightbody, Mark Pete Mcclelland, Jonathan Graham Quinn, Nathan Connolly and Iain Denis Archer is a song I would include in any of my playlist and best played during a sweater weather.
I always thought the song was about leaving someone you really care for, but still having hope that in for our lives it is like they are wanting to escape from everything else and just the end it will all work out like “I know we'll make it anywhere” kind of feeling. I think they're getting ready to leave each other and won't meet again for a while as the lyrics are suggesting. And also, when he sings 'Louder, louder, we'll run stay how they are at that moment, like their lives will not be the same without each other but when I did my research the song was really about family.
When Gary was asked if the song was about a love or break up song Gary explained: ''It's really about family. It is like wanting to protect them from all the people in the world that want to destroy. It's about running away and keeping them safe not about fighting which perpetuates the violent cycle. It's a hopeful song. The opening line, ‘I’ll sing it one more time for you’, is about singing my kid to sleep. I don’t have a kid, but I hope I do one day”
It is just surprising to know the real context of the song after the listeners have made their own interpretation. This song certainly gives a feeling of mixed sadness and happiness because of the melody and the tempo and to me, I think the sounds of the guitars sound like they are crying and then we add Lightbody’s majestic voice especially when he sings with those “half whispers” of his. I first heard Leona Lewis version of this song and immediately liked it and I have found out that it was only a cover of Snow Patrol. Well, I liked the Leona Lewis cover but Snow Patrol’s original track is what I have such loved.
