Run (Snow Patrol song)

"Run"
Single by Snow Patrol
from the album Final Straw
B-side	"Post Punk Progression"
Released	26 January 2004 (2004-01-26)[1]
Recorded	2003
Studio	Britannia Row (London, England) The Diving Bell Lounge (Glasgow, Scotland)
Genre	Britpop[2] post-Britpop[3]
Length	5:56 (album version) 4:16 (radio edit)
Label	Fiction Polydor
Songwriter(s)	Gary Lightbody Jonathan Quinn Mark McClelland Nathan Connolly Iain Archer
Producer(s)	Jacknife Lee Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol singles chronology
"Spitting Games" (2003) "Run" (2004) "Chocolate" (2004)

"Run" is a song by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. It was released in the UK on 26 February 2004 as the second single of their third album, Final Straw (2003). The song was conceived in 2000 by frontman Gary Lightbody after an accident he had during a bender. "Run" has been described as a Britpop power ballad. It received critical acclaim, and was compared to Coldplay's "Yellow".

A music video, directed by Paul Gorewas, was released to promote the song; in it, band members use distress flares and motorcycles at night. An unreleased video, directed by Mark Pellington, was also filmed. The single reached the top five on the UK Singles Chart in 2004, and since it has appeared multiple times in the chart. Additionally, "Run" reached the Top 40 of Ireland, the Netherlands and the American Modern Rock Tracks.

"Run" has been covered by multiple artists, including Leona Lewis, who released it as a single in November 2008. Her performance received critical and commercial success, topping the charts of Austria, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom, where it became the fastest-selling download ever, selling 69,244 copies in just two days.