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"'''Running Red Lights'''" is a song from an upcoming album by Australian electronic group [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avalanches the Avalanches]. [[Rivers Cuomo]] and musician 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) and the late David Berman | "'''Running Red Lights'''" is a song from an upcoming album by Australian electronic group [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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) and the late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berman_(musician) David Berman] of 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]], Weezer's 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" [https://twitter.com/Weezer/status/1239684521840332800]. | [[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]], Weezer's 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" [https://twitter.com/Weezer/status/1239684521840332800]. | ||
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The song was released on [[March 18]], [[2020]]. The band said, in [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Running_red_lights_statement.png a statement] released alongside the music video: | The song was released on [[March 18]], [[2020]]. The band said, in [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Running_red_lights_statement.png a statement] released alongside the music video: | ||
<blockquote>''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. [...]''</blockquote> | <blockquote>''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. [...]''</blockquote> | ||
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== | ||
The music video was directed by Greg Brunkalla. | The music video was directed by Greg Brunkalla. | ||
<youtube>nsjQ3Gblzys</youtube> | <youtube>nsjQ3Gblzys</youtube> | ||
==Lyrics== | |||
<poem> | |||
Running, running red lights | |||
Red lights, red lights | |||
I been running red lights | |||
To get to you | |||
Running, running red lights | |||
Where you been running all night? | |||
I been running the red lights | |||
Boom, boom, boom | |||
I'm a thundercloud | |||
Ready to burst, like Schrödinger | |||
I'm crying in the car | |||
An invalid, I'm off the grid | |||
Hans is looking for Liesel | |||
Living in Union Square | |||
Shoot this rabid canine | |||
Something's gone horribly wrong | |||
The light of my life is going out tonight | |||
In a pink champagne Corvette | |||
The light in my life is going out tonight | |||
Without a flicker of regret (Without a flicker of regret, dude) | |||
I sleep three feet above the street | |||
In a pink champagne Corvette | |||
Fly out into space | |||
Listen to the music | |||
The stars are making | |||
Without a flicker of regret | |||
California life is alright with me | |||
California life is alright with me | |||
We are, we are, we are, we are, we are all we have</poem> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] | ||
[[Category:Songs featuring contributions by Rivers Cuomo]] | [[Category:Songs featuring contributions by Rivers Cuomo]] | ||