Fuck and Run

Phair wrote it and Brad Wood produced the album version. An earlier Girly-Sound version is on the tape GIRLSGIRLSGIRLS from 1991, and Wikipedia says she re-recorded it in 1993. The Ringer and Songfacts pair it with "Happy", track ten of Exile on Main St. She told Elle in 2018 that there was no one encounter that she went home and wrote the song about, and called the lyrics so nakedly emotional delivered deadpan, a classic pop song, and probably the most emblematic of what drew people to her, in a Rolling Stone track-by-track relayed by Songfacts. Songfacts, quoting Spin second-hand, says it was tracked in one night and that Wood saw her dancing to the playback and knew they had hit the right formula.

Medialoper's Jim Connelly calls it perhaps the most musically simple song on the whole record, and a PopMatters Between the Grooves roundtable called it a bona fide classic. Setlist.fm lists it at 218 plays, second only to "Divorce Song" at 219. At a Planned Parenthood benefit at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on March 4, 2017, organized by Best Coast, she played it with Best Coast, and at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Gen X Festival at Disney Hall on May 10, 2022 she opened the encore with it. Ted Leo joined her for it in Brooklyn in 2019. We found no chart history or video for it; Frank Rogala has covered it.