The Beatles were racing to finish Rubber Soul on deadline when John Lennon delivered “Run for Your Life.” John Lennon turned the lyric into “Run for Your Life,” the closing track on Rubber Soul — a song he would later call his least favorite Beatles recording. Lennon later described it as a quick composition built around the Presley lyric that had caught his ear years earlier. And while Lennon would later call it his “least favorite Beatles song” and say he “always hated” it, at least one of his bandmates felt differently. “It was sort of a throwaway song of mine that I never thought much of,” Lennon later said.