Run
by Taylor Swift (featuring Ed Sheeran)

Album: Red (Taylor's Version) (2021)
Charted: 47
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Songfacts®:

  • Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are not only two of the most famous musicians on the planet, but also friends. They are constantly facing scrutiny in the media and invasions of privacy by the paparazzi, so sometimes they want to escape from it all. This song finds the duo imagining running away together to a place "where no one else is."
  • Swift and Sheeran wrote this song in a Seattle hotel room in early 2012 for her Red album. While it didn't make it onto the record, another track they penned a week later, "Everything Has Changed," made the cut.
  • Sheeran actually preferred "Run" to "Everything Has Changed" and hoped his friend would record it one day. Swift granted his wish when she re-recorded the songs on her first six albums after Scooter Braun acquired her old label, Big Machine Label Group and her master recordings in June 2019. When Swift came to redo Red, she also recorded nine songs, including "Run," that did not make the 2012 record.
  • Aaron Dessner co-produced the track alongside Swift. The National band member did not take part in the original Red recordings but was her chief collaborator on her Folklore and Evermore records.
  • Swift performed "Run" live for the first time during her July 24, 2024, concert at the Volksparkstadion stadium in Hamburg, Germany.

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