"Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)" is a song composed and written by Harry Vanda

Harry Vanda

Harry Vanda , is a Dutch-born Australian popular music singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer.-Career:...

, George Young, Patti Russo

Patti Russo

Patricia "Patti" Russo is an American singer/songwriter/actress. She is perhaps best known as Meat Loaf's female lead vocalist, touring the world with his Neverland Express band for eighteen years.-Career:...

, Sarah Durkee

Sarah Durkee

Sarah Durkee is a singer-songwriter, a television lyricist and screenwriter, and an author and humorist.Durkee and her husband Paul Jacobs are the creators of the theme song for the popular PBS literacy education series, Between the Lions, and have also written many other musical numbers for the...

, and Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor...

 (who also recorded it). The song was released in 1995

1995 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....

 as the third single from the album Welcome to the Neighborhood

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Welcome to the Neighbourhood is Meat Loaf's seventh studio album, released in 1995 as follow-up to the popular album Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. The album went platinum in the US and UK....

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Being a minor single off the record, Meat Loaf never performed this song live, nor executed a music video like all singles before and after.

Tracks

The single was released in two versions, a CD maxi single and a 12" picture disc

Picture disc

Picture discs are gramophone records that show images on their playing surface, rather than being of plain black or coloured vinyl.-Development:...

. The CD contains the album version of the song and live versions of "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back", "Amnesty is Granted" and "Dead Ringer for Love

Dead Ringer for Love

"Dead Ringer for Love" is a rock song performed by American rock singer Meat Loaf and American singer-actress Cher from Meat Loaf's third studio album, Dead Ringer...

". On the 12", "Amnesty is Granted" was replaced by "Midnight at the Lost and Found".