Run A Red Light Lyrics
Cashed up and all set
It's a lock-in here until he says so
A little bump from a car key
Sit back, darling, it's all about us
Forget the losers, forget the morning
Put a tune on, and put your feet up
It was my idea, I hope you know that
We're gonna have this, I'm the one now
[Chorus]
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
[Verse 2]
It's the bar take, not the door split
A few weeks and I can work it
Keep it simple, keep the same crowd
We're on the inside, I'm the one now
Yeah, I'm the one now
It's 2 AM, wе're leaving loudly
Wake thе neighbours, we won't come quietly
They'll all know my name soon
Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
Run a red light
Forget the morning
This is tonight
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Ben Watt:
I met a lot of characters during my years in clubland, and I wrote this song about the guy at the end of the night, who dreams his big moment is just around the corner. All the bravado and good intentions masking the vulnerability.
— via NME
Ben Watt:
We were a few songs into recording when one evening I played Tracey some songs I’d demoed a few years back. This was one of them, and Tracey picked it out immediately, saying, ‘That is a killer song, you must let me sing it.’ The ‘run a red light’ lines only appeared once, as a coda at the end, but we turned it into the chorus instead and sang the lines together, with my vocal heavily Auto-Tuned so that it has a bit of what Mark Ronson calls that ‘sad robot’ quality. The lyric is a portrait of the kind of guy I often met at the end of the night during my DJ days, the guy who thinks he just needs one break and he could turn everything around.
