Pushing Me Away

"Pushing Me Away"
Song

Pushing Me Away is the final song on Linkin Park's 2000 debut album, Hybrid Theory.

In 2002, a remix of the song titled P5hng Me A*wy was included on Linkin Park's remix album, Reanimation. After Reanimation was released, the band stopped playing the original Hybrid Theory version at their live shows, instead playing the Reanimation version of the song from 2002 to 2005.

In 2006, the band composed a new version of the song with Mike playing keyboards and Chester singing. The "piano version" includes no rapping, guitar, bass, drums or samples. Therefore, the only members on stage when it is played live are Mike and Chester. The piano verson was first played live in Sendai, Japan at the 2006 Summer Sonic Festival. The live recording was also included on the band's LPU 6 CD released in December 2006 for the Linkin Park Underground.

"Pushing Me Away"
Song

P5hng Me A*wy

On the sixth track on Linkin Park's 2002 album Reanimation, there is a remix of the Hybrid Theory song titled P5hng Me Aw*y. It was reinterpreted by Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson, and featured additional vocals by Taproot frontman Stephen Richards in the intro and bridge. The chorus in the remix differs from the original chorus. Mike played most of the guitar and Joe Hahn created most of the beat, rather than Rob Bourdon drumming. When this song is performed live, Rob plays the main beat, however.

This song contains backmasking during the intro and the breaks (at 0:42 and 1:56 respectively). It goes, "Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually break down. Everything has to end, you'll soon find we're out of time left to watch it all unwind," which are lyrics of the original song.

This song was performed live by Linkin Park during the Summer Sanitarium 2003 tour in Dallas (Live in Texas on the DVD). In this, Chester performs the intro and outro of the song originaly done by Stephen Richard, "When I look into your eyes..." and Mike sings the rest of Stephen Richard's vocals.