Lyrics to
Run Like Hell

This version of Run Like Hell was released by Pink Floyd in 1979.

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Run, run, run, run
You better make your face up in
Your favourite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
As the cockleshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down your door
You better run

Run, run, run, run
You better run all day
And run all night
And keep your dirty feelings
Deep inside. And if your
Takin’ your girlfriend
Out tonight
You better park the car
Well out of sight
‘Cos if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks
They’re gonna send you back to mother
In a cardboard box
You better run

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The lyrics to Run Like Hell are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Pink Floyd in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Run Like Hell are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Pink Floyd and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Run Like Hell back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd in a number of ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Run Like Hell" means the words set to the music of Run Like Hell, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Pink Floyd. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Run Like Hell and the lyrics to Run Like Hell are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Pink Floyd who came here looking just for the lyrics to Run Like Hell, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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