Walk Away (Franz Ferdinand song)

Single infobox
Name = Walk Away

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Artist = Franz Ferdinand
from Album = You Could Have It So Much Better
B-side = "Sexy Boy"
Released = 5 December 2005
Format = 7", CD, DVD
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Post-punk revival Indie rock
Length = 3:36
Label = Domino
Writer = Alex Kapranos Nick McCarthy
Producer = Rich Costey
Chart position = * #13 (UK Singles Chart)
Reviews =
Last single = "Do You Want To" (2005)
This single = "Walk Away" (2005)
Next single = "The Fallen / L. Wells" (2006)
Misc = Extra album cover
Background = khaki
Upper caption = Alternate covers


Lower caption = Alternative Sleeve Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Audio file= Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away.ogg‎

"Walk Away" is a song by Scottish alternative rock band Franz Ferdinand and is featured on their second album, "You Could Have It So Much Better". It was released 5 December 2005 as the second single from that album in the UK, entering the UK Singles Chart at #13 a week later (see 2005 in British music).

It was written in autumn 2004 in Hamburg. Fact|August 12, 2007|date=August 2007 The video for the song premiered 4 November, 2005 on Channel 4.

During the Exit festival in Novi Sad, Serbia on 6th of July 2006 Alexander Kapranos explained that the song was dedicated to Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian-Bosnian assassin who shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He said: "Serbians! There's one Serbian who's particularly dear to us. His name is Gavrilo Princip. This song is dedicated to him!" fact|date=August 2008.

Track listings

All tracks written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, except where noted.
*7" RUG215
#"Walk Away" - 3:36
#"The Fallen" (acoustic version)
*CD RUG215CD
#"Walk Away" - 3:36
#"Sexy Boy" (Air Cover) (Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Nicolas Godin) - 3:40
*DVD RUG215DVD
#"Walk Away" (video)
#"Walk Away" (making of video)
#"This Boy" (live in Edinburgh)