New Order: Run

New Order - Run music video.
Directed by Robert Frank and produced by Michael Shamberg by Cascando Studios in 1989.

Answer me
Why won't you answer me?
I can't recall a day
that I last heard from you
Well you don't get a tan like this for nothing
So here's what you've got to do
You work your way to the top of the world
Then you break your life in two

Well what's the use in complaining?
When you've got what you don't need
Anyone would think you were hard done to
What do you want me to believe?
What the hell is happening?
I cannot think of anything
I don't know what day it is
Or who I'm talking to

But I know that I'm okay
Because you're here with me today
I haven't got a single problem
Now that I'm with you

So what's the use in complaining?
When you've got everything you need
Anyone would think you were hard done to
What do you want me to believe?

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[djh29971]

The last great New Order single. It was never the same on London Records.

[RodCornholio]

@777system777 Yeah, it was creepy until I watched it again and realized the "storyline":

2 parallel lives come together in the same location. There is NO relation between the two other than this: they both want something that likely will never arrive. The old man wants his date to show up. The little girl wants New Order to show up.

[vprmn]

@ttmor WTF? sure not

[7428marcus]

fuck that, John Denver sucks and this song is way better... New Order should get his royalties because they did better at that riff than his garbage song.. would have been nice to see it live just fucking once.. thanks John Denver lawyers

[canuck21]

@ttmor I like John Denver so I'm trying to be as unbiased as I can. I tried very hard to hear the similarity and I couldn't until now, but it's still not that obvious to me. I'm sure New Order didn't realize it themselves until they were sued. I read that they hired a British specialist to compare and s/he agreed with the American counterpart that there was a similarity so they agree to settle out of court. They wouldn't hire a second opinion if they knew they were guilty of plagiary.

[MrRitKill]

How about the part from 2:40 that was lifted to make "It Hurts", Sweden's 2004 Eurovision entry?

[youtueagain]

What about the part lifted from Lennon's Happy Christmas (War is Over) starting from 2:09?

[sandwichescornertv]

@djh29971 sad but true.

[ttmor]

@Diamondblade2008

Listen to that guitar break. It's a complete lift of the first line of Denver's song. As is much of the rest of the song. They settled out of court cos it was so obvious .

[ttmor]

That guitar line is a complete rip of "leaving on a jet plane" as is the intro. Too much doof doof has damaged yer hearing perhaps!

[stilldasayme]

@Kalhas01 Uh...AC/DC?

:) but I see your point.

[SWalkerTTU]

I wonder if it was intentional that the girl's dancing resembled Ian Curtis'. Granted, it's not MUCH of a resemblance, but it would be rather neat (and/or eerie) if it weren't. Just a thought.