Runaway (Linkin Park song)

"Runaway"
Song by Linkin Park
from the album Hybrid Theory
Released	October 24, 2000
Genre	Nu metal
Length	3:04
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Linkin Park Mark Wakefield
Producer(s)	Don Gilmore

"Runaway" is a song by Linkin Park. It is the sixth track from their debut album, Hybrid Theory. 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 Linkin Park Underground extended play LP Underground 9.0. It is one of three songs on Hybrid Theory to have been written by the band's original lead vocalist, Mark Wakefield.

Critical reception

David Fricke of Rolling Stone 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 Entertainment Weekly 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."

Charts

Chart (2000–2017)	Peak position
UK Rock & Metal (OCC)	10
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)	40
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)	37