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]

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.

[TheElectricticker]

John Denver's posse got here first. Maybe they should sue Bryan Adams too.

[Habib4ly]

they used the same tune as ''One night love affair'' by Bryan adams ...

Fuck this shit !

[BlueberryNight10]

I could listen to that again and again.

[claywag]

I know man. That woman carrying the book entitled "Listen To God" was THE only reason why I commented on the video/song. That track was, essentially, in the very middle of the best album ever made. I am very aware the N.O. can't be bothered nor care less about making videos. My comment was only intended to remind all of us who have gone thru a break-up that there is often an intermediate phase when we momentarily separate from our former girlfriend and look skywards towards God.

[pyrtwist]

First of all NO thinks fuck all about videos and hates to be present for a video shoot. Michael Shamberg was given free reign to do what ever he wanted. Remember this was after the drug filled year in Ibiza and when NO broke up for the first time after the 1989 tour.

But at the very end of this there is a woman in a crowd holding a book titled "Listen to God."

[Ray Ryder]

Bernards a funny bloke,He spent the 1st decade or so performing live just standing there with his eyes closed.Now he wont stop dancing even though he stinks.Love him.

[charly9927]

brilliant as usual! New Order forever!

[claywag]

I'm a NO, and esp. Barney disciple. "Technique" is by far their best album. It's really a record that was driven by his divorce, inter-spliced with his new found freedom, hence "Fine Time" to "LoveLess", & the greatest trifecta closer of all time "Mr. Disco", "Vanishing Point" & "Dream Attack". I think "Run" is Bernard addressing God ("Answer me, why won't you answer me?/ I can't recall the day when I last heard from You.) The man laughing @ the end representing peace via the girl's youth. No?

[David Griffiths]

... what the hell is happening?

[david j]

Yes they were less rough after this.