The existence of "More The Victim", the vocal version of the song was revealed for the first time in the Meteora 20 tracklist. Mike Shinoda said that version is "basically the furthest we got with it, in terms of a demo." He added about the first three songs on the Lost Demos CD: "I really wanted to keep it true to the initial intention, because I didn't want to taint this time warp. What I love about the three new songs is that all of them represent a different facet of the band, as it was in 2003." The instrumental on "More The Victim" is an evolved form of "Cumulus", with a slightly different sample pattern, a different guitar part, live drums, strings, scratching, and more. Brad Delson did a track-by-track commentary of the Lost Demos disc for the "Super Deluxe Box Set" book on which the song is listed as "Cumulus/More The Victim". He wrote: "Mr. Hahn's scratching is instantly recognizable. Riveting how a pre-existing sample, rubbed shrewdly on a record, breathes a distinctly human element into the musical bed. Joe's flourishes can be ambient, roaring, or restrained. Often, when the vocals recede, Mr. Hahn's turntables emerge center stage. Love Mike's verse. Love Chester's vocal in the Pre. Love the interplay between Rob's kit and Mr. Hahn's records. The joke is you have your whole life to write your first album and, if you're lucky, three weeks to write the second. While we definitely had the luxury of more than three weeks, crafting the follow-up to our meteoric debut was a totally different experience. Keeping pace with it all was an adventure and then some. Listening back to the experimentation in these demos brings that experience back to the surface. Hybrid Theory was so packed with great songs, we were determined to follow with another timeless body of work. Incredible we're here celebrating Meteora 20 years later." Words that Chester spray painted on the Meteora art wall of "somebody angry broken" are from the bridge of "More The Victim." After premiering the song on the Howard Stern show, on February 14, 2023, Mike explained how he wrote the lyrics about something Chester told him: "I remember that, when we were writing that, that was one of ones that I came in with something for him, that I was like, 'Oh, this is about your thing. I know your story enough at this point.' No names or anything, he was telling about somebody who was always talking to them, always felt like a competition for who had the worst. You'd say like, 'Oh, this bad thing happened,' and they'd be like, almost like a little kid would do, where they go like, 'Oh, that's nothing, check this! Like, this happened to me!' There's always this competitiveness like, he was like, 'I can't stand this, this drives me crazy, I hate them,' like, 'I'm so angry.' In the studio, when we get on to those lyrics, and we get into the core of what the song is about, I was trying to get him in the booth as quick as possible, like, 'Okay, I got these lyrics, it's good, I'm positive this is the one,' 'Oh, are you sure?' 'I'm positive! Let's go, let's record it!' Because I wanted to have that intensity that he was feeling when writing the lyrics, I wanted to him to have that intensity on the mic." Phoenix said that Linkin Park intended to release the extra songs from Meteora at some point. He said, "I vaguely remember after Hybrid Theory, we had a couple of different things that popped up that needed an extra track or something that was previously unreleased. There was a specialty album maybe for Japan and with that also we did "My December" for a KROQ release, and all this stuff. I remember thinking a little at Meteora, even if this song or a couple of songs, even if we don't put them on the album, there's always going to be spots where it's going to be awesome to use them. And then I think that we just never used it, we just pressed forward and it never circled back to that."