Pink Floyd: On the Run Meaning

On the Run Lyrics

(female announcing flights)
"...have your passports ready....Rome..."

"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"

1. anonymous

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   Oct 9th 2023 !⃝

   Not gonna lie, every time I hear this, I picture something along the lines of Mission: Impossible (the first one). The sound effectcs are really well done (especially for the time!). If I had to figure out a plot for this one... a corrupt business executive is in a hurry to leave the country. Some disgruntled "normal folks" (people he's screwed over) decide to blow up the train/aeroplane/helicopter he's using as his escape. There seems tp be some activity in an airport of some sort, so I would wager a private jet.
2. anonymous

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   Mar 8th 2023 !⃝

   The title " how down to earth you are, and I am from the house of david dceribes a tree's conviction of a murderer from the beginning, I nuclearly abandoned this on 09/16/71.
3. anonymous

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   May 17th 2019 !⃝

   We always thought it was about an insane airport controller that plans and executes the crashing of 2 planes together.
4. anonymous

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   Oct 13th 2017 !⃝

   I believe it deals with fear of death in a way and in one part of the video you see a man going up in the air in a hospital bed i bet he was thinking i'm going to die and you can see the bed move by it's self untill the very end it speed's up utill it crashe's at the very end of the video
5. anonymous

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   Dec 12th 2016 !⃝

   It is an airplane, not a train. During performing the song, a model plane flew across the stage, crashing on the other side.
6. anonymous

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   Mar 18th 2016 !⃝

   I've read in a Pink Floyd bio it's about birth. You guys are all wrong.
7. anonymous

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   Jun 24th 2013 !⃝

   You are all wrong! The guy is running to catch a train! You don't run to catch an airplane! The train then leaves the station (hence the steady beat and cadence). The train is buzzed by the spaceship, then the first missile is fired at the train; fantastic simulated sound of the missile missing the train; then a short time later the spaceship fires the second missile and bingo; a direct hit and explosion!

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
8. TiggerGrrr

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   Mar 15th 2010 !⃝

   If you listen to the first part, a man is running to catch a plane. You hear voice over an intercom relaying flight information and sound effects emulating planes flying.
   
   Then the engines of a plane preparing to and also taking off. Next is the obnoxious sound of a man laughing in the plane that is taking off which is the flight the first guy is running to catch. The obnoxious guy sees the first man running down the terminal and laughs.
   
   He laughs all the way until the plane crashes! Then you hear the guy arriving at the terminal. Probably thinking holy shit I could have been on that flight and dead!

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