Run Like Hell

Gilmour wrote the music and Waters the lyrics. Waters's first version of the music was scrapped for Gilmour's while the demos were being made. It was released as a single in 1980 and reached number 15 in Canada, number 18 in Sweden and number 53 in the United States. It is the last original composition written by both men under the Pink Floyd name. Gilmour used drop-D tuning and a delay that gives its rhythm, and said he was trying to imitate the chopping cellos in Good Vibrations. It has the only keyboard solo by Wright on The Wall, on a Prophet-5, and producer Bob Ezrin brought in Lee Ritenour to beef up the sound.

On the song, Pink imagines himself a dictator turning the audience into a mob.

Live

After Waters left, the band played it regularly, usually to close the show. On the Division Bell tour Guy Pratt sang the lines Waters had sung, and at the final Earls Court shows he sang London instead of mother, as heard on Pulse. Gilmour left it out of his 2024 tour, saying he now found it a bit terrifying and violent.