"Shoot the Runner" is a song by English rock band Kasabian and is the second track on their second album, Empire.

Meighan sings the chorus, starting with the lines 'Shoot the runner, shoot shoot the runner/I'm a king and she's my queen' while Pizzorno sings the other parts (starting with the line 'Dream, dream again in your way/Always knew that you would').

It is also the band's first single to feature profanity, and therefore 'bitch' was censored on radio edits.

It is prominently heard in the Gameloft crime video game Gangstar Vegas, where it is one of the songs in the fictional radio station The Knife 87.8.

It is also featured in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The music video was directed by Alex & Martin (best known for their work on the video for The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army"), and is similar in style to the music video for Queens of the Stone Age's "Go with the Flow" except more colourful; it features animation made by rotoscoping the band members.