No More Runnin

Dave "Avey Tare" Portner told Pitchfork Media how the band penned the songs for Merriweather Post Pavilion. He explained: "The songs for us are written in really different ways. There are some songs that I still like [to do] on acoustic guitar or on a piano. 'No More Runnin'' I wrote on the piano. I just wanted it to sound differently. But other songs are written just listening to a sample play over and over again, and just developing the structure that way."

Avey Tare explained to Pitchfork why he wrote this song on a piano: "Around the time of working on this record, I spent a lot of time at our old practice space, which was in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. My wife Kristin and I bought a piano and kept it in that space, and I really like playing the piano a lot. It's probably my favorite acoustic instrument, sound-wise. It was just a matter of me sitting down and writing one piece at a time, basically. Sometimes you sit down with an instrument and songs just come really, really fast, and one like that or 'Bluish,' they came really fast when I picked up the instrument."

Some critics have likened this song's sound to that of a 1970s pop rock band such as Fleetwood Mac. Avey Tare commented to Pitchfork on this: "Noah ('Panda Bear' Lennox), actually, says a lot of my songs remind him of Lindsey Buckingham... I like Fleetwood Mac a lot, in terms of older bands or pop bands, they're one of the greatest. Tusk, Rumors - the Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, that whole lineup has definitely been an influence on me. I wrote an e-mail to the dudes when I sent a demo of 'No More Runnin' to them that I saw it as this beach-side or lagoon - we talked about lagoons a lot when we were making the record - and just how I saw it as this guy sitting next to this really shallow lagoon with frogs and other things going around him. Just to get this really lagoony, laid-back, hazy feeling going with it, and sad, too."