"Runaway" is a song by

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. It is the sixth track from their debut album, ''

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''. The song was also remixed for their first remix album '' Reanimation'', titled "Rnw@y". The song was written by the band and Mark Wakefield. A 1998 demo of the song, titled as "Stick and Move" (which was originally titled as "Stick N Move" that appeared on Xero's 4-track sampler tape ''Xero'' in 1996), was released on the band's ninth

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''. It is one of three songs on ''Hybrid Theory'' to have been written by the band's original lead vocalist, Mark Wakefield.

Music and live performances

It is one of the few songs on ''Hybrid Theory'' to contain unusually little rapping by

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, just like " Crawling". During live performances, two constant changes occur. Firstly, drummer Rob Bourdon performs a

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just before the second verse. Finally, during the second verse vocalist

Chester Bennington Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of the bands Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, a ...

alters the line "guilty by association" to "you're all guilty by association" while waving his arm to the audience. Both can be evidenced on '' Live in Texas'' and ''

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'' CD's. "Runaway" was a staple in live performances even before ''Hybrid Theory'', and was omitted in 2006 until the first leg of the Living Things Tour in 2012.

Critical reception

David Fricke of ''

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'' noted the "tumbling funk" of Bourdon in the song, as well as the way that Shinoda and Bennington "shoot and share rhymes ... their bodies rocking with spasms of conviction." Writing of Linkin Park's remixing of the track for their album ''Reanimation'', David Browne of ''

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'' called "Rnw@y" "more sonically expansive" than the original version had been. He wrote that "Rnw@y" (along with a few others on the album) made Linkin Park sound like "experimental DJs.""Review: Linkin Park rewarms, serves 'Reanimation'"
by David Browne, for ''Entertainment Weekly'', 14 August 2002.

Charts

"Runaway" charted in the

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during the height of ''Hybrid Theorys popularity.

References

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