Eddie Benjamin, RUN! | Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥

In the 41st edition of Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 (2025), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “RUN!” by Eddie Benjamin.

[otw_shortcode_dropcap label=”A” size=”large” border_color_class=”otw-no-border-color” shadow=”shadow” square=”square”]h, bring on Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥! Wait – it is not usually hot at midnight! Well, it is steaming hot 🥵 at midnight when it comes to this naughty, innuendo-laden, and sex-laden column featuring songs intended for nighttime. These risqué, unapologetic records often raise eyebrows and temperature alike. In the 41^st edition of Midnight Heat (2025), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “RUN!” by Eddie Benjamin. [/otw_shortcode_dropcap]

Sex songs don’t have to be forever long. Australian singer/songwriter Eddie Benjamin keeps his sex song, “RUN!”, brief, to the tune of two minutes and change.  Despite the brevity, matters of the bedroom and the heart are the modus operandi.  “We’re tangled up in the sheets, but you’re drifting away,” he sings in the first verse. Oh, snap! He continues, “We keep recording to tape, and you love pushing play / Do you remember the first time you kissed me?” Word! Benjamin wrote and produced “RUN!” alongside Alex Salibian.

A sensual song deserves a sensual backdrop, right? Right.  “RUN!” gets a sensual-sounding pop/rock backdrop. Not only do we get some sick guitar sounds, but also some ear-catching synths, and a robust bass line. Eddie ‘tears it up’ with his awesome, nuanced, falsetto vocals. His voice sounds incredibly pure.  He sells those suggestive, love-oriented lyrics like a champ.  The verses feature tuneful melodies, articulated by that scintillating high tenor. Per Eddie in the second verse, “We’re drowning in our own spit, got you gasping for air / It’s psychological warfare of love.” Damn, Daniel, rather, damn, Eddie! The crowning achievement – the crème de la crème – is the chorus, also tuneful and rhythmic:

“Run, run, you run away?

When our love’s brighter than the sun

Don’t run away

From our love

Much better when you don’t

Run, run, you run away

When our love’s brighter than the sun

Don’t run away

From our love

It’s better when we’re one, yeah.”

Eddie Benjamin never made two minutes and two seconds sweeter.  “RUN!” is a sensual pop song that you won’t want to run away from! 

Eddie Benjamin // “RUN!” // Vol. I / Epic // 2025

Eddie Benjamin, RUN!: Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 No. 41 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Vol. I / Epic; Francesco Ungaro, Hasan Muneer, Natan, Tazz Vaughn from Pexels; AcatXlo, Aristal Branson, Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay]