Album: Life On Earth (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Wolves" is an expansive track where Hurray for the Riff Raff frontperson Alynda Segarra urgently repeats the refrain, "run, babe, you know how to run."
  • Raised in the Bronx, Segarra is an American rock musician of Puerto Rican heritage. They (the singer uses they/them pronouns) left their home at 17 and crossed North America, hopping freight trains before settling in New Orleans. "Wolves" frames Segarra's own experiences against urgent global issues. "I wrote this because I have spent a lifetime running, from leaving my home at 17, to wandering the country, running from dangerous situations," they told Uncut magazine, "from roles and norms expected of me, from so-called natural disasters caused by a climate emergency."

    Segarra added that the song is also about "people and creatures who must pack up and go, running for their lives."
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff recorded "Wolves" for their seventh studio album, Life On Earth. The record contains "music for a world in flux - songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening." This opener sets the tone for the New Orleans-based Americana band's examination of escapism, immigration, and identity.

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