"Stay Away" is the 21st single by Japanese rock band

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, released on July 19, 2000. On the same day, Japanese rock band

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's single "Mermaid" was also released. Although "Stay Away" sold over 504,000 copies in the first week, "Mermaid" debuted at number 1 with the sales of over 525,000 copies. The second track "Get out from the Shell" is also included in their album ''

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'' as the English-language song "Get out from the Shell (Asian version)". "Stay Away" was elected as "the best video of the year" at the "

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00". Canadian singer-songwriter

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also performed a cover version in English as part of the 2012 album ''Tribute by L'Arc-en-Ciel''.

Track listing

* Remix by TT man.

References

2000 singles L'Arc-en-Ciel songs Songs written by Hyde (musician) Songs written by Tetsuya (musician) 2000 songs Ki/oon Music singles {{2000s-Japan-single-stub