Results for “isolation and running”

Songs

Run, Run, Run

Ann Peebles

Ann Peebles delivers a frustrated ultimatum to a partner stuck in aimless repetition, warning that her patience is running out.…

frustration with stagnation failing communication ultimatum and impending departure

Hit It Run

Run-DMC

A boast-driven b-boy anthem in which D.M.C. asserts lineage, dominance, and craft over Jam Master Jay's stripped-down beats. The…

braggadocio hip-hop lineage and authenticity self-naming/identity

We Run This

Missy Elliott

A brash, party-floor anthem in which Missy Elliott asserts sexual and regional dominance in equal measure, treating braggadocio…

sexual assertiveness regional pride/unity self-mythologizing braggadocio

Can't Stop Running

Todd Rundgren

A meditation on ambition and mortality framed as a lifelong sprint, tracing a single motion from infancy to old age. Rundgren…

ambition and drive fear of failure mortality and aging

Run With the Pack

Bad Company

A defiant kiss-off anthem built around the image of running free from a controlling relationship or authority. The narrator…

escape and freedom distrust of authority independence

Running Kind

Merle Haggard

A confessional country ballad in which the narrator diagnoses his own restlessness as an inborn condition rather than a choice.…

compulsive restlessness self-knowledge without self-mastery home as confinement

I'll Come Running

Brian Eno

A deceptively cheerful pop song built on an image of devoted, almost servile waiting, where the narrator's declared eagerness to…

devotion and dependency passivity disguised as patience domestic confinement

Running Up That Hill

Kate Bush

A song about the gulf of misunderstanding between two lovers, imagined as something so vast it could only be closed by a…

miscommunication in intimacy empathy and its limits bargaining with fate

Run That Body Down

Paul Simon

A wry domestic vignette about physical burnout, built from a doctor's warning that Simon repeats first to his wife and then to…

bodily limits self-deception aging

Run Like Hell

Pink Floyd

A pounding, paranoid rocker from the second half of The Wall, built almost entirely on a chanted command to flee. It stages the…

paranoia and surveillance fascism and mob violence guilt and self-disgust

Long May You Run

Neil Young

Neil Young's elegy for a car that has died is written with such tenderness it plays as a breakup song or a eulogy for a person,…

loyalty and companionship loss and mortality nostalgia for youth

Blues Run the Game

Laura Marling

This is Laura Marling's rendition of a 1965 folk standard originally written by Jackson C. Frank, a song about restless flight…

itinerancy and escape addiction as coping mechanism inescapability of sorrow

Darryl and Joe (Krush-Groove 3)

Run-DMC

This is Run-DMC's self-introduction track, a boastful roll call in which each member states his name, role, and superiority in…

self-naming and identity boasting and status group unity vs individual flash

Is It Live

Run-DMC

This is a straight braggadocio track built around DMC and Run trading boasts about their microphone supremacy. It's less a story…

boasting and self-mythologizing rap as combat authenticity vs imitation

30 Days

Run-DMC

Run-DMC turns a courtship pitch into a mock infomercial, with the rapper selling himself as a consumer product complete with…

commodification of romance braggadocio satire of advertising

Proud to Be Black

Run-DMC

A blunt, celebratory statement of Black pride built from direct proclamation, historical name-checking, and defiant refusal of…

Black pride and self-affirmation historical memory and education defiance against oppression

Christmas Is

Run-DMC

Run-DMC repurpose the charity-compilation Christmas song into a pointed piece of social commentary, contrasting the holiday's…

economic inequality charity and obligation commercialized holiday imagery

Hollis Crew (Krush-Groove 2)

Run-DMC

An early foundational Run-DMC record built almost entirely around boasting: each MC takes a turn establishing his name, his…

braggadocio and self-mythologizing identity and naming hip-hop lineage/crew loyalty

Wake Up

Run-DMC

An early-80s Run-DMC track built almost entirely around a single conceit: the narrator recounts a utopian dream of world peace…

utopian longing social inequality disillusionment

Raising Hell

Run-DMC

The title track of Run-DMC's landmark album is a boast-battle anthem built almost entirely from self-crowning imagery and…

braggadocio hip-hop supremacy battle rhetoric

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Kate Bush

A song about the gulf of misunderstanding between two lovers, imagined as a problem that could be solved by literally trading…

empathy and its limits gender and relational miscommunication bargaining with fate

Close Your Eyes (And Count to F**k)

Run the Jewels

A high-velocity posse cut where El-P and Killer Mike trade verses of violent bravado, prison-abolitionist rage, and sexual…

mass incarceration and prison abolition institutional hypocrisy (church, courts, police) hypermasculine bravado and sexual conquest

Oh My Darling Don't Cry

Run the Jewels

A two-verse trade-off between El-P and Killer Mike that functions as pure sonic swagger and threat display, dressed up in…

defiance of authority hypermasculine bravado self-mythologizing

Legend Has It

Run the Jewels

A boastful, mythmaking duo track in which El-P and Killer Mike cast themselves as outlaw legends -- part supervillain, part folk…

self-mythologizing violence as performance drug use and excess

ooh la la

Run the Jewels

A high-energy flex built on a chopped vocal hook lifted from an old funk/soul sample, where El-P and Killer Mike trade boastful,…

braggadocio excess and appetite anti-authority posture

JU$T

Run the Jewels

JU$T is a dense indictment of American capitalism's continuity with slavery, arguing that legal freedom masks economic and…

capitalism as slavery's successor racial oppression and complicity hustle and survival economics

Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)

Run the Jewels

A theme song for a documentary about 1970s New York gang culture, this track has Killer Mike and El-P narrate street survival as…

urban survival and neglect self-made authority religious skepticism

Yankee and the Brave (ep. 4)

Run the Jewels

This interlude-style track opens RTJ4 with a radio-show framing device that quickly gives way to a dense, boastful verse trading…

outlaw persona and mythmaking police violence and self-preservation brotherhood and loyalty

Meowpurrdy

Run the Jewels

A boastful, deliberately grotesque flex track that piles up violent and sexual imagery to assert dominance, then pivots into a…

dominance and threat as performance authenticity versus industry approval transformation from underdog to predator

Change

The War on Drugs

A road-worn ballad of resistance to change dressed as a plea for connection, where the narrator keeps circling images of doors,…

fear of change isolation and running shelter versus exposure

Humility

Gorillaz

A breezy, sun-drenched groove carries a lyric about wanting connection while stuck in isolation. The gap between the song's…

isolation longing for connection self-repair

Nutshell

Alice in Chains

A short, stark meditation on isolation and self-erasure, built from two spare verses and a wordless, keening refrain. The song…

isolation loss of autonomy despair

Leave Me Alone

New Order

A closing-track meditation on isolation and exhaustion, built from fragmented, almost dissociated imagery rather than a clear…

isolation depersonalization communication failure

Computer Love

Kraftwerk

A minimal, deliberately flat lyric sets domestic isolation against the promise of a technological fix for loneliness. The song…

isolation technology mediating intimacy modern alienation

Levitz

Grandaddy

A quiet, defensive song about withdrawal from social life in favor of self-imposed isolation, disguised by early Grandaddy as a…

isolation avoidance technology as substitute for connection

Death Letter

Son House

Son House recounts the death of a lover through a series of stark, repeated images: a letter, a wake, a burial, a failed prayer.…

grief and loss delayed recognition of love religious doubt

Pictures of Home

Deep Purple

A lone figure stranded on a mountainside cries out into silence, caught between physical isolation and a self-created…

isolation self-deception alienation from home

Is There Anybody Out There?

Pink Floyd

This piece is built almost entirely around a single, repeated question, framed by a fragment of hushed, urgent dialogue about…

isolation escape and flight abandonment

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away

Grandaddy

A stranded astronaut, long resigned to isolation on some barren world, walks toward a mirage of swans on a lake he's never seen…

isolation longing mortality and acceptance

Celebrated Summer

Hüsker Dü

A sun-bleached remembrance of teenage summer freedom curdles into something more isolated and melancholy, as Bob Mould traces…

nostalgia adolescence and its end isolation