There is an almost universal hope that Germany will find a way of burying its Eurovision demons and jump off the foot of the scoreboard. With Always On The Run, it might have found the song to do that. 

Isaak is a safe pair of hands. Vocally, he’s a goliath. He’s got grit and grunt and gives power and life to this song that others simply couldn’t. 

It’s intelligent to treat listeners to a splash of the song’s hook right at the start; that way it’s already familiar by the time it peaks during the chorus. “Run-na-na-ayy” is simple and memorable. It works. 

If Vernon Kay introduced the song as BBC Radio 2’s Record Of The Week, I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s the kind of song that would receive just enough radio play to give it an outside chance of making the charts, only for it to be forgotten a week after it peaked at number 39. 

Isaak is undoubtedly better than the song itself, but he gives it a shot at achieving something rather than nothing.