"Run" Is A Song By Alternative Rock Band Snow Patrol Released As The Second Single From Their Third Album Final Straw. It Brought The Band Its First Taste Of Mainstream Success Reaching #5 On The UK Charts. The Song Has Also Been Covered By Tre Lux In 2006 By Three Graces In 2008 And Leona Lewis In 2008. In Australia The Song Was Ranked #77 On Triple J's Hottest 100 Of 2004. Written By Lightbody McClelland Now With Little Doses Quinn Archer Connelly Lead Singer Gary Lightbody Said Of The Song In Q Magazine April 2007 "I've Never Told Anyone Before And I Don't Want To Spoil It For People Because It Has Its Own Meaning For Them. But In 2000 I Was On A Massive Bender And One Night I Was Drinking In The Bar Of The Glasgow School Of Art. I Fell Down A Full Flight Of Stairs. Jonny Quinn Snow Patrol's Drummer Found Me In The Stairwell With Blood Coming Out Of My Head. He Said I Looked Like A Police Chalk Line And He Thought I Was Dead. I Was Very Lucky. A Fall Like That Could Easily Finish You Off. I Split My Head Open And My Eye Was Closed And I Lost A Few Teeth. I Was Put On A Plane To See My Mum And Dad And They Were Terrified When They Saw Me. I Wrote Run Soon After...The Words 'Light Up Light Up' Gave This Sense Of A Beacon. There Had To Be A Light At The End Of A Tunnel."