Running If You Call My Name

Song by HAIM

## *Days Are Gone* Chronology

"**Running If You Call My Name**" is a song by American pop-rock band HAIM. It was released on September 27th 2013 through Polydor Records and serves as the eleventh track to the band's debut studio album, *Days Are Gone*.

## Background

In an interview with *Genius*, all three sisters said:

> **Danielle**: Um, it was, that was actually the last song that we wrote, um, when we were recording the record. We never really wrote a lot of songs on the piano, well you play piano, Alana plays piano.
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> **Alana**: Yeah.
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> **Danielle**: Um, but we never really, I don't know why we never really wrote on piano but this is kind of like the first one where we had this piano line and it just felt kind of like a closer for some reason.
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> **Alana**: We put like blood, sweat, and tears into the last song. It was kind of like the end of this long, long recording process and we had such a crazy year this year and um, with Running If You Call My Name every time we played it it kind of just felt like you could- at least for us, every time I listen to it I can like feel all like the craziness that we went through and all the fun times and all like the really stressful times we went through. It's just like this big release every time I hear it and it just felt like such a good closer cuz it was the end for us. You can, I think you can kind of tell when you listen to it that it like, we put everything that we had into that song and it just seemed like a really nice way to end since it was the end for us on this record. That was it, just kind of like a release. It was, and we had written that like at the very, very end, it was like the last thing. We were just like "This is it, this is the last ounce of creative juice we have. This here."
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> **Este**: Yeah.
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If you would to like to view the full *Genius* interview for "Running If Your Call My Name", click *here*.

## Composition

Musically, "Running If You Call My Name" is set in the key of C Major with a tempo of 134 BPM, a Camelot of 8B, and a total length of 4 minutes and 3 seconds.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

I went back to our room

And every memory came rushing back too soon

As I packed my bags, and I lied down

I felt the bed sink in and the covers surround, I let go

'Cause with my eyes closed, I see the door open wide

And with my eyes closed, I'm leaving it all behind

**[Chorus]**

I, I'll run away if you call my name

And I, I'll keep running if you come my way

And I, oh, I'll run away if you call my name

And I, I'll keep running if you come my way

When you come my way

I'll keep running if you come my way

**[Verse 2]**

I jumped back in a daze

I saw the face of someone slowly slip away

And he had your eyes, it's too bright

And now I'm slipping through the white

Bringing me into cold dark night now

And with my eyes closed, I see the door open wide

**[Chorus]**

I'll run away if you call my name

And I, I'll keep running if you come my way

And I, oh, I'll run away if you call my name

Oh, and I, I'll keep running if you come my way

When you come my way

I'll keep running if you come my way

**[Post-Chorus]**

And with my eyes closed, I see the door open wide

(I'll keep running if you come my way)

And with my eyes closed, I see the door open wide

(I'll keep running if you come my way)

And with my eyes closed, I'm leaving it all behind

**[Chorus]**

I, I'll run away if you call my name

And I, I'll keep running if you come my way

And I, no, oh, I'll run away if you call my name

Oh, and I, I'll keep running if you come my way

When you come my way

**[Outro]**

Keep, keep running if you call my name

I'll keep running if call my name

I'll keep running if you call my name

Call my name, when you call my name

I'll keep running if you call my name

I'll keep running if you call my name

I'll keep running if you call my name

I'll keep running if you call my name

Keep, when you come my way now

When you call my name now

When you call my name now

Run, run, run, run if you call my name

I'll keep running, running if you call my name

I'll keep running, running when you come my way

When you come my way

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## References

1. ↑ https://genius.com/Haim-haim-on-running-if-you-call-my-name-annotated
2. ↑ https://tunebat.com/Info/Running-If-You-Call-My-Name-HAIM/7p3vvpBKc7QRY1ur4qj2jP