(pictured), who would later take a significant role in her career. Aurora began playing
piano at age six, and she wrote most of the songs of her debut album, including "Runaway", at a young age. According to her, she wrote the song when she was 11 or 12 years old and created the melody on a piano she had at her home, which took approximately an hour. However, she preferred to keep her music private at the time she wrote the song. When a live performance at Aurora's high school's leaving ceremony and a recording of her song "Puppet" were uploaded online, she was quickly discovered by a representative of the Norwegian management agency of Artists Made Management. Even though she initially denied the proposal, she accepted it since her mother advised her that "maybe there's someone out there who desperately needs [her music]." Aurora was eventually paired with Norwegian musicians and producers
Magnus Skylstad and Odd Martin Skålnes, who were responsible for the production of her debut album. Skylstad would also take a significant role in the singer's career, producing the majority of her music. which was uploaded to
By:larm's website in late 2013 alongside another song titled "We Were Going to Do That". This early version of the song included piano, strings, bass, beat, and a different bridge, which the singer said it was omitted from the final version because she struggled singing that part live. In 2014, Aurora signed a
recording contract with Petroleum Records in Norway,
Glassnote Records in North America, and
Decca Records in the rest of the world. "Runaway" was eventually re-recorded on winter 2014 at Lydriket Studio in
Bergen. Skylstad and Skålnes recorded, produced, and mixed the song, while mastering was made by
Alex Wharton. ==Composition and lyrical interpretation==