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"'''Running Red Lights'''" is a song from the [[2020]] album ''[ | "'''Running Red Lights'''" is a song from the [[2020]] album ''[[Wikipedia:We_Will_Always_Love_You|We Will Always Love You]]'' by Australian electronic group [[Wikipedia:The_Avalanches|the Avalanches]]. [[Rivers Cuomo]] and musician [https://pitchfork.com/artists/pink-siifu/ Pink Siifu] are featured performers on the song, and Cuomo is a credited co-writer alongside Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi (of the Avalanches), Andrew Szekeres (of Midnight Juggernauts), Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere (of Woods), and the late [[Wikipedia:David_Berman_(musician)|David Berman]] (of [[Wikipedia:Silver Jews|Silver Jews]]). | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[[Image:Runningredlights apra.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The entry for "Running Red Lights" in the APRA database]]"Running Red Lights" was added to the APRA songwriting database on [[February 20]], [[2020]]. On [[March 16]], {{ | [[Image:Runningredlights apra.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The entry for "Running Red Lights" in the APRA database]]"Running Red Lights" was added to the APRA songwriting database on [[February 20]], [[2020]]. On [[March 16]], {{PN|Weezer}} official Twitter account retweeted a tweet from the Avalanches' Twitter account on [[March 13|the 13th]] that read "We have a beautiful song coming for you next week."<ref>(Weezer) "Coming soon @TheAvalanches ft @RiversCuomo", ''Twitter''. 16 March 2020. https://twitter.com/Weezer/status/1239684521840332800</ref> | ||
The song was released on [[March 18]], [[2020]]. The band said, in [[:File:Running_red_lights_statement.png|a statement]]<ref name="statement">Minsker, Evan. "The Avalanches Share New Song With Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu: Listen" ''Pitchfork''. 18 March 2020. https://pitchfork.com/news/the-avalanches-share-new-song-with-weezers-rivers-cuomo-and-pink-siifu-listen/</ref> released alongside the music video: | |||
{{Quote box||Running Red Lights didn't start out as a defining moment; 'a single' as it were. But Rivers responded to our fuzzed out Spacemen 3 inspired jam with such open heartedness, that we soon dropped all pretense and got down to the heart of the matter... loss.<br><br>We love that wide eyes, elated, almost evangelical Los Angeles sense of possibility that he tapped into. He captures that feeling that comes on the other side of the abyss, when you have lost everything and so then, there is nothing more to lose. [...]|The Avalanches|March 2020<ref name="statement" />}} | |||
The song features a lyric previously heard from Berman's Purple Mountains project in the song "[https://genius.com/Purple-mountains-darkness-and-cold-lyrics Darkness and Cold]." | The song features a lyric previously heard from Berman's Purple Mountains project in the song "[https://genius.com/Purple-mountains-darkness-and-cold-lyrics Darkness and Cold]." | ||
==Music video== | ==Music video== | ||
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==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
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We are, we are, we are, we are, we are all we have</poem> | We are, we are, we are, we are, we are all we have</poem> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] | *[[Rivers Cuomo discography]] | ||
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references /> | <references /> | ||
[[Category:Songs featuring contributions by Rivers Cuomo]] | [[Category:Songs featuring contributions by Rivers Cuomo]] | ||
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]] | |||