# What's this song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 1, 2000, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630 "2000-09-01T12:48:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/1 "2000-09-01T12:48:12Z")
This is pretty vague… but… It’s a recent song… and one of the lines in the chorus finishes with a guy saying “… Runaway, Runaway.” It isn’t The Corrs song “Runaway” and it isn’t that song that goes “Runaway, Runaway, Runaway if you want to survive.” Anyone have any idea what it is? ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/2 "2000-09-01T13:05:19Z")
May you be thinking of Aerosmith’s “Janie’s Got a Gun”? IIRC, there’s a part in the song that may sound similar to what you describe. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/3 "2000-09-01T13:42:58Z")
I take it it doesn’t go “Runaway, a-run run run run runaway”? (In which case it would be Del Shannon’s _Runaway_) The Aerosmith song goes “Runaway, runaway from the pain” IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/4 "2000-09-01T13:51:39Z")
Bon Jovi? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/5 "2000-09-01T14:06:40Z")
No, I know what song you’re talking about. But I can’t remember the name 🙂 It actually ends with 3 'runaway’s, doesn’t it? As in “Runaway, runaway, run-awaaaaay”. Its a VERY recent song, currently on the radio. No? ---
**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/6 "2000-09-01T15:10:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Connor \* > \*\*No, I know what song you’re talking about. But I can’t remember the name 🙂 > > It actually ends with 3 'runaway’s, doesn’t it? As in “Runaway, runaway, run-awaaaaay”. > > Its a VERY recent song, currently on the radio. No? \*\* That’s right Connor… but what’s it called !!! ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/7 "2000-09-01T15:25:57Z")
Are you thinking of that song by Sugar Ray? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/8 "2000-09-01T17:22:25Z")
I think brandocet’s right - It’s called she falls apart or something like that and its by Sugar Ray ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-song/31630/9 "2000-09-01T19:53:25Z")
No it’s a techno song, not Sugar Ray, I have it on a compilation CD but I don’t have it handy. I’ll look it up in a bit if someone doesn’t beat me to the punch.