05) Cold, “Run” (Snow Patrol cover)
We recently highlighted Cold’s Snow Patrol cover of “Run” on our Six videos to check out this week 12/20 list. The video landed at number two, and now, it has reached our fifth favorite cover song of the year. We asked Scooter Ward’s reason for covering the Snow Patrol track, as he answered:
“Yeah. That song was a big deal for me. I think everything I’m answering is emotional.
Yeah. When I was a kid, well not kid, when I was younger and my kids, whenever I had to leave my kids for touring or my family or making records for long periods. I’m so emo. I’d listen to sad songs when I was driving away or something, and fall to my emo-ness on that. And so, “Run” was always one of those songs. When me and Nick were going through the record, we were almost to the end of the album I was like, “Man, you know, I really don’t like doing covers, but there’s this one song just keeps popping up at me,” and I go, “You know, I always loved Snow Patrol’s version of it.”
That is the most beautiful song ever. But I always add harmony. So I was like, “I always liked to do that song with harmonies just to see what it sounded like.” So I told Nick, “Let’s try it.” We did, and it ended up sounding really good. Not only did we not want to make it like a B side, but we wanted to add it to the album, and I think it worked out.”
