"Runaway" is title of a song recorded by the country music

Country music

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 group Love and Theft

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. It is the lead-off single to the band's debut album World Wide Open. The song debuted on the Hot Country Songs

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 chart in March 2009.

Content

The song's narrator wants to get from with his current life as it's not going well, and he decides to become a "runaway".

Reception

Dan Milliken of Country Universe.net gave the song a C rating, and said this in his review of the song that the band "is another three-piece boy band who sound like they paid a lot of attention to 80’s pop-rock and care deeply about the inner yearnings of suburban girls between the ages of 11 and 17." Juli Thanki of The 9513 gave it a thumbs-down, saying that the band "combine[s] the adult contemporary pop of 'Iris' era Goo Goo Dolls

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 and the treacly sentiment featured in your average Rascal Flatts

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 song with the nonthreatening cuteness of the Jonas Brothers

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." She also thought that the lead vocals lacked grit in comparison to the song's theme of running away.

Chart performance

"Runaway" debuted at number 60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart for the week of March 14, 2009. It debuted at number 65 on the Hot 100 for the chart dated September 12, 2009.
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Chart (2009)	Peak position