"Run Away From the Mob" by Queens of the Stone Age warns against surrendering to a crowd that demands obedience and blood. The shaking hands and finger guns turn fear into a game, while the mob’s soft force-feeding and signed apologies expose how cruelty disguises itself as order. Fleeing means keeping loved ones close and rejecting washed-clean thinking, even as self-destruction keeps pulling back. The outro’s promise to remain wherever you are becomes the counterweight: love outlasts the mob’s noise.
Run Away From the Mob Lyrics by Queens of the Stone Age
I don’t care what you believe
None what you heard, only half what you seen
It starts with shaking hands
Just point and shoot, finger guns go fingerbang
Run away
Run away from the mob
Get away
They’re out playing God
It’s the same old lines
Force feed you softly
It’s the same morons
Want blood, so thirsty
Hangman’s dreaming
Oh, they make it so clear
“Our mistake”
Signed the mob
Keep your sister and brother close
If I say the word, make a break for the coast
There’s no group to obey
Brains washed clean, dirty knee that you take
Tis the nature of man, to self destruct again and again
I’ve news, the messengers dead
Drowned in a sea of notes unread
Run away
Run away from the mob
Get away
They’re out playing God
It’s the same old lines
They sing you softly
The same brute squad, they crooked finger
Points out someone you love and hold so dear
“It’s a shame”
Signed the mob
Wherever you are (In my heart forever more always with me)
I’m right there wherever you are (In my heart forever more always with me)
I’m right there wherever you are (In my heart forever more always with me)
I’m right there wherever you are (In my heart forever more always with me)
