Jumat, 17 Juli 2009
DREAM THEATER LYRICS
1. The Root Of All Evil
Proud enough for you to call me arrogant
Greedy enough to be labeled a thief
Angry enough for me to go and hurt a man
Cruel enough for me to feel no grief
Never could have just a part of it
I always need more to get by
Getting right down to the heart of it
The root of all evil has been running my whole life
Dirty enough for me to lust
Leaving nothing left to trust
Jealous enough to still feel envious
Lazy enough to sleep all day
And let my life just waste away
Selfish enough to make you wait for me
Driven blindly by our sins
Misled so easily
Entirely ready to leave it behind
I'm begging to break free
Take all of me
The desires that keep burning deep inside
Cast them all away
And help to give me strength to face another day
I am ready
Help me be what I can be
Self-centered fear has got a hold of me
Clutching my throat
Self righteous anger running all through me
Ready to explode
Procrastination paralyzing me
Wanting me dead
These obsessions that keep haunting me
Won't leave my head
Help to do for me what I can't do myself
Take this fear and pain
I can't break out this prison all alone
Help me break these chains
Humility now my only hope
Won't you take all of me
Heal this dying soul
I can feel my body breaking
I can feel my body breaking
I'm ready to let it all go
I can feel my body shaking
Right down to the foundation
The root of it all
Take all of me
The desires that keep burning deep inside
Cast it all away
And help to give me strength to face another day
I am ready
Help me what I can be
I am ready
Come to me
Take me away
2. I Walk Beside You
There's story in your eyes
I can see the hurt behind your smile
For every sign I recognize
Another one escapes me
Let me know what plagues your mind
Let me be the one to know you best
Be the one to hold you up
When you feel like you re sinking
Tell me once again
What's beneath the pain you re feeling
Don't abandon me
Or think you can't be saved
I walk beside you
Wherever you re
Whatever it takes
No matter how far
Through all the may come
And all that may go
I walk beside you
I walk beside you
Summon up your ghost from me
Rest your tired thoughts upon my hands
Step inside this sacred place
When all your dreams seem broken
Resonate inside this temple
Let me be the one who understands
Be the one to carry you
When you can walk no further
Tell me once again
What's below the surface bleeding
If you've lost your way,
I will take you there
I walk beside you
Wherever you re
Whatever it takes
No matter how far
Through all the may come
And all that may go
I walk beside you
I walk beside you
Oh, where everything is wrong
Oh, where hopelessness surrounds you
Oh, the sun will rise again
The tide you swim against
Will carry you back home
So don't give up
Don't give in
I walk beside you
Wherever you re
Whatever it takes
No matter how far
Through all that may come
And all that may go
I walk beside you
I walk beside you
3. Another Won
[Majesty Demos]
It was the mortal passion
The flame that lit the fire
The beauty of the starlight
Brought the cruelty of desire
A lovers link was broken
Another's vengeful plan
Was contrived through jealous hatred
For a cross of God and man
I hope it will turn out so
But I can't help being afraid
Perception is hindered by lust
To be sure of the choice you have made
Grant me this request, please
Just promise me your word
Attest to the mighty river
Let the truth be heard!
She asked to see the power
His realm of life and love
His godly immortality
The thunder roared above
Her words were so quickly spoken
Lest he stop her from the deed
I gave you my word, now my love
Your grim request I shall heed!
Leaving his maiden
He rose to the sky
Returning in splendors
To earth he did fly
Subject to presence
Too brilliant to face
Another had killed passions grace
4. Afterlife
I touched with one
who made me run
away from my own soul
In this world with its
many illusions
We are moving like mice through a
maze
And now I find
what's left behind
has served to make me whole
full of doubt, deception, and delusion
seeking purpose to all earthly days
I search within
beneath a skin
that bears both pleasure and pain
In a world full of constant confusion
I will not be a par to the craze
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright?
will cold be warm?
will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife?
will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife
Behind closed eyes
some comfort lies
In knowing the truth never spoken
Through this world with us
hidden conclusion
we'll keep moving like mice through
a maze
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright?
will cold be warm?
will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife?
will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife
5. Under A Glass Moon
Tell me
Remind me
Chase the water racing from
the sky
Always beside me
Taste the memories running
from my eyes
Nervous flashlights scan my
dreams
Liquid shadows silence their
screams
I smile at the moon
Chasing water from the sky
I argue with the clouds
Stealing beauty from my eyes
Outside the soundness of your
mind
Bathing your soul in silver tears
Beneath a blackened summer sky
Praying for time to disappear
Beneath a summer sky
Under glass moonlight
Night awaits the lamb's arrival
Liquid shadows crawl
Silver teardrops fall
The bride subsides to her
survival
By your hand
I've awakened
Bear this honor in my name
6. Innocence Faded
Animation
breathes a cloudless mind
Fascination
leaves the doubting blind
Until the circle breaks and wisdom lies ahead
the faithful live Awake
the rest remain misled
Some will transcend spinning years
One as if time disappears
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you
Callow and vain
fixed like a fossil, shrouding pain
Passionless stage
Distant like brothers
Wearing apathetic displays
Sharing flesh like envy in cages
Condescending
Not intending to end
Some will transcend spinning years
One as if time disappears
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you
Beginnings get complicated
the farther we progress
Opinions are calculated
Immune to openness
Beyond the circle's edge
We're driven by her blessings
Forever hesitating
Caught beneath the wheel
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Cynically jaded
The child will crawl to find you.
7. Raise The Knife
[Song left off of Falling Into Infinity]
Have I thanked you for your time?
Or will your life go unrewarded
Again?
Never asking for a dime
You just gave all of yourself
Until I turned my back on you
My friend
The powers that be made you a martyr
Conspiracy led you to slaughter
I tried to control it but as soon as I showed it
I was shot down again
Once again outnumbered
Appreciation slumbered
You can ask yourself why
But that look in your eye
Doesn't pass the test
You've been laid to rest my friend
Again
Tortured artist bears his soul
Seems the pressure took its toll
Lived a life so punishing
Now he keeps the publishing
Spilling your guts out to a pad and pen
Communication to your silent friend
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
(I once knew)
There comes a time
Compromising my life
(Just won't do)
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
(To reach you)
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
Raise the knife
Cut through
I remember once you were the quiet type
Content to sit and watch the motions of your life
With false sensitivity
You cut yourself open so people would adore you
They all bought into your contrived sincerity
And how you wore your heart and soul right on your sleeve
Laughing sarcastically
You turned your back on the people who adored you
Self-absorbed exhaustion
Self-esteem distortion
Self-infused extortion
Self-serving abortion
I'll take the blame for these things that I say
'Cause I had the heart and the will and the courage to stay
Every day
I won't walk away
Reading through all the digests you show me
I notice the way that you think you control me
Doubting my future, you don't even know me
But I never walked out on you
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
(I once knew)
There comes a time
Compromising my life
(Just won't do)
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
(To reach you)
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
Raise the knife
Cut through
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
(I once knew)
There comes a time
Compromising my life
(Just won't do)
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
(To reach you)
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
And live my life
Without you
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
There comes a time
Compromising my life
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
8. The Spirit Carries On
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go when we die?
What lies beyond
And what lay before?
Is anything certain in life?
They say "Life is too short"
"The here and the now"
And "You're only given one shot"
But could there be more
Have I lived before
Or could this be all that we've got?
If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on
I used to be frightened of dying
I used to think death was the end
But that was before
I'm not scared anymore
I know that my soul will transcend
I may never find all the answers
I may never understand why
I may never prove
What I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try
If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on
"Move on, be brave
Don't weep at my grave
Because I'm no longer here
But please never let
Your memories of me disappear"
Safe in the light that surrounds me
Free of the fear and the pain
My questioning mind
Has help me to find
The meaning in my life again
Victoria's real
I finally feel
At peace with the girl in my dreams
And now that I'm here
It's perfectly clear
I found out what all of this means
If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we�re gone
The spirit carries on
9. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
[I. Overture]
[Instrumental]
[II. About to crash]
She can't stop pacing
She never felt so alive
Her thoughts are racing
Set on overdrive
It takes a village
This she knows is true
They're expecting her
And she's got work to do
He helplessly stands by
It's meaningless to try
As he rubs his red-rimmed eyes
He says "I've never seen her get this bad"
Even though she seems so high
He knows that she can't fly
And when she falls out of the sky
He'll be standing by
She was raised in a small midwestern town
By a charming and eccentric loving father
She was praised as the perfect teenage girl
And everyone thought highly of her
And she tried everyday
With endless drive
To make the grade
Then one day
She woke up to find
The perfect girl
Had lost her mind
Once barely taking a break
Now she sleeps the days away
She helplessly stands by
It's meaningless to try
All she wants to do is cry
No one ever knew she was so sad
Cause even though she gets so high
And thinks that she can fly
She will fall out of the sky
But in the face of misery
She found hopefulness
Feeling better
She had weathered
This depression
Much to her advantage
She resumed her frantic pace
Boundless power
Midnight hour
She enjoyed the race
[III. War Inside My Head]
Napalm showers
Showed the cowards
We weren't there to mess around
Through heat exhaustion
And mind distortion
A military victory mounted on innocent ground
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
Years and years of
Bloodshed and warfare
Our mission was only to get in and kill
A free vacation
Of palm trees and shrapnel
Trading innocence for permanent psychotic hell
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
Feeling strangers staring my way
Reading minds never read
Tasting danger with each word I say
Waging the war inside my head
[IV. The Test That Stumped Them All]
Standing in the darkness
Waiting for the light
The smell of pure adrenaline
Burning in the night
Random blinding flashes
Aiming at the stage
Intro tape begins to roll
Igniting sonic rage
Still they keep me between these hollow walls
Hoping to find in me
The answers to the test that stumped them all
"The boy is just simply crazy
Suffering from delusions
We honestly think that maybe
He might need an institution
He lives in a world of fiction
And really could use some help
We have just the place to fix him
To save him from himself"
Curled up in the darkness
Searching for the light
The smell of sweat and shit
Steaming through the night
Random urine testing
Pills red, pink and blue
Counseling and therapy
Providing not a clue
Still they keep me between these hollow walls
Hoping to find in me
The answers to the test that stumped them all
"We can't seem to find the answers
He seemed such a clear cut case
We cannot just let him leave here
And put all this work to waste
Why don't we try shock treatment
It really might do some help
We have just the tools to fix him
To save him from himself"
[V. Goodnight Kiss]
Goodnight kiss in your nightgown
Lavender in your bed
So innocent as you lie down
Sweet dreams that run through your head
Are you lonely without Mommy's love?
I want you to know I'd die for that moment
You're just a poor girl
Afraid of this cruel world
Taken away from it all
It's been five years to the day and
My tainted blood's still the same
I can't help acting this way and
Those bastard doctors are gonna pay
I'm so lonely without baby's love
I want you to know I'd die for one more moment
I'm just a poor girl
Afraid of this cruel world
Taken away from it all
[VI. Solitary Shell]
He seemed no different from the rest
Just a healthy normal boy
His mama always did her best
And he was daddy's pride and joy
He learned to walk and talk on time
But never cared much to be held
And steadily he would decline
Into his solitary shell
As a boy he was considered somewhat odd
Kept to himself most of the time
He would daydream in and out of his own world
But in every other way he was fine
He's a Monday morning lunatic
Disturbed from time to time
Lost within himself
In his solitary shell
A temporary catatonic
Madman on occasion
When will he break out
Of his solitary shell
He struggled to get through his day
He was helplessly behind
He poured himself onto the page
Writing for hours at a time
As a man he was a danger to himself
Proud enough for you to call me arrogant
Greedy enough to be labeled a thief
Angry enough for me to go and hurt a man
Cruel enough for me to feel no grief
Never could have just a part of it
I always need more to get by
Getting right down to the heart of it
The root of all evil has been running my whole life
Dirty enough for me to lust
Leaving nothing left to trust
Jealous enough to still feel envious
Lazy enough to sleep all day
And let my life just waste away
Selfish enough to make you wait for me
Driven blindly by our sins
Misled so easily
Entirely ready to leave it behind
I'm begging to break free
Take all of me
The desires that keep burning deep inside
Cast them all away
And help to give me strength to face another day
I am ready
Help me be what I can be
Self-centered fear has got a hold of me
Clutching my throat
Self righteous anger running all through me
Ready to explode
Procrastination paralyzing me
Wanting me dead
These obsessions that keep haunting me
Won't leave my head
Help to do for me what I can't do myself
Take this fear and pain
I can't break out this prison all alone
Help me break these chains
Humility now my only hope
Won't you take all of me
Heal this dying soul
I can feel my body breaking
I can feel my body breaking
I'm ready to let it all go
I can feel my body shaking
Right down to the foundation
The root of it all
Take all of me
The desires that keep burning deep inside
Cast it all away
And help to give me strength to face another day
I am ready
Help me what I can be
I am ready
Come to me
Take me away
2. I Walk Beside You
There's story in your eyes
I can see the hurt behind your smile
For every sign I recognize
Another one escapes me
Let me know what plagues your mind
Let me be the one to know you best
Be the one to hold you up
When you feel like you re sinking
Tell me once again
What's beneath the pain you re feeling
Don't abandon me
Or think you can't be saved
I walk beside you
Wherever you re
Whatever it takes
No matter how far
Through all the may come
And all that may go
I walk beside you
I walk beside you
Summon up your ghost from me
Rest your tired thoughts upon my hands
Step inside this sacred place
When all your dreams seem broken
Resonate inside this temple
Let me be the one who understands
Be the one to carry you
When you can walk no further
Tell me once again
What's below the surface bleeding
If you've lost your way,
I will take you there
I walk beside you
Wherever you re
Whatever it takes
No matter how far
Through all the may come
And all that may go
I walk beside you
I walk beside you
Oh, where everything is wrong
Oh, where hopelessness surrounds you
Oh, the sun will rise again
The tide you swim against
Will carry you back home
So don't give up
Don't give in
I walk beside you
Wherever you re
Whatever it takes
No matter how far
Through all that may come
And all that may go
I walk beside you
I walk beside you
3. Another Won
[Majesty Demos]
It was the mortal passion
The flame that lit the fire
The beauty of the starlight
Brought the cruelty of desire
A lovers link was broken
Another's vengeful plan
Was contrived through jealous hatred
For a cross of God and man
I hope it will turn out so
But I can't help being afraid
Perception is hindered by lust
To be sure of the choice you have made
Grant me this request, please
Just promise me your word
Attest to the mighty river
Let the truth be heard!
She asked to see the power
His realm of life and love
His godly immortality
The thunder roared above
Her words were so quickly spoken
Lest he stop her from the deed
I gave you my word, now my love
Your grim request I shall heed!
Leaving his maiden
He rose to the sky
Returning in splendors
To earth he did fly
Subject to presence
Too brilliant to face
Another had killed passions grace
4. Afterlife
I touched with one
who made me run
away from my own soul
In this world with its
many illusions
We are moving like mice through a
maze
And now I find
what's left behind
has served to make me whole
full of doubt, deception, and delusion
seeking purpose to all earthly days
I search within
beneath a skin
that bears both pleasure and pain
In a world full of constant confusion
I will not be a par to the craze
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright?
will cold be warm?
will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife?
will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife
Behind closed eyes
some comfort lies
In knowing the truth never spoken
Through this world with us
hidden conclusion
we'll keep moving like mice through
a maze
In the Afterlife
will dark be bright?
will cold be warm?
will the day have no night?
In the Afterlife?
will the blind have sight?
In the Afterlife
5. Under A Glass Moon
Tell me
Remind me
Chase the water racing from
the sky
Always beside me
Taste the memories running
from my eyes
Nervous flashlights scan my
dreams
Liquid shadows silence their
screams
I smile at the moon
Chasing water from the sky
I argue with the clouds
Stealing beauty from my eyes
Outside the soundness of your
mind
Bathing your soul in silver tears
Beneath a blackened summer sky
Praying for time to disappear
Beneath a summer sky
Under glass moonlight
Night awaits the lamb's arrival
Liquid shadows crawl
Silver teardrops fall
The bride subsides to her
survival
By your hand
I've awakened
Bear this honor in my name
6. Innocence Faded
Animation
breathes a cloudless mind
Fascination
leaves the doubting blind
Until the circle breaks and wisdom lies ahead
the faithful live Awake
the rest remain misled
Some will transcend spinning years
One as if time disappears
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you
Callow and vain
fixed like a fossil, shrouding pain
Passionless stage
Distant like brothers
Wearing apathetic displays
Sharing flesh like envy in cages
Condescending
Not intending to end
Some will transcend spinning years
One as if time disappears
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Trinity jaded
I break down walls to find you
Beginnings get complicated
the farther we progress
Opinions are calculated
Immune to openness
Beyond the circle's edge
We're driven by her blessings
Forever hesitating
Caught beneath the wheel
Innocence faded
the mirror falls behind you
Cynically jaded
The child will crawl to find you.
7. Raise The Knife
[Song left off of Falling Into Infinity]
Have I thanked you for your time?
Or will your life go unrewarded
Again?
Never asking for a dime
You just gave all of yourself
Until I turned my back on you
My friend
The powers that be made you a martyr
Conspiracy led you to slaughter
I tried to control it but as soon as I showed it
I was shot down again
Once again outnumbered
Appreciation slumbered
You can ask yourself why
But that look in your eye
Doesn't pass the test
You've been laid to rest my friend
Again
Tortured artist bears his soul
Seems the pressure took its toll
Lived a life so punishing
Now he keeps the publishing
Spilling your guts out to a pad and pen
Communication to your silent friend
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
(I once knew)
There comes a time
Compromising my life
(Just won't do)
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
(To reach you)
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
Raise the knife
Cut through
I remember once you were the quiet type
Content to sit and watch the motions of your life
With false sensitivity
You cut yourself open so people would adore you
They all bought into your contrived sincerity
And how you wore your heart and soul right on your sleeve
Laughing sarcastically
You turned your back on the people who adored you
Self-absorbed exhaustion
Self-esteem distortion
Self-infused extortion
Self-serving abortion
I'll take the blame for these things that I say
'Cause I had the heart and the will and the courage to stay
Every day
I won't walk away
Reading through all the digests you show me
I notice the way that you think you control me
Doubting my future, you don't even know me
But I never walked out on you
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
(I once knew)
There comes a time
Compromising my life
(Just won't do)
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
(To reach you)
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
Raise the knife
Cut through
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
(I once knew)
There comes a time
Compromising my life
(Just won't do)
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
(To reach you)
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
And live my life
Without you
Raising the knife
To a picture of a life
There comes a time
Compromising my life
I cannot lie
I can't try anymore
I just can't fight
Raise the knife
8. The Spirit Carries On
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go when we die?
What lies beyond
And what lay before?
Is anything certain in life?
They say "Life is too short"
"The here and the now"
And "You're only given one shot"
But could there be more
Have I lived before
Or could this be all that we've got?
If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on
I used to be frightened of dying
I used to think death was the end
But that was before
I'm not scared anymore
I know that my soul will transcend
I may never find all the answers
I may never understand why
I may never prove
What I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try
If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on
"Move on, be brave
Don't weep at my grave
Because I'm no longer here
But please never let
Your memories of me disappear"
Safe in the light that surrounds me
Free of the fear and the pain
My questioning mind
Has help me to find
The meaning in my life again
Victoria's real
I finally feel
At peace with the girl in my dreams
And now that I'm here
It's perfectly clear
I found out what all of this means
If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we�re gone
The spirit carries on
9. Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
[I. Overture]
[Instrumental]
[II. About to crash]
She can't stop pacing
She never felt so alive
Her thoughts are racing
Set on overdrive
It takes a village
This she knows is true
They're expecting her
And she's got work to do
He helplessly stands by
It's meaningless to try
As he rubs his red-rimmed eyes
He says "I've never seen her get this bad"
Even though she seems so high
He knows that she can't fly
And when she falls out of the sky
He'll be standing by
She was raised in a small midwestern town
By a charming and eccentric loving father
She was praised as the perfect teenage girl
And everyone thought highly of her
And she tried everyday
With endless drive
To make the grade
Then one day
She woke up to find
The perfect girl
Had lost her mind
Once barely taking a break
Now she sleeps the days away
She helplessly stands by
It's meaningless to try
All she wants to do is cry
No one ever knew she was so sad
Cause even though she gets so high
And thinks that she can fly
She will fall out of the sky
But in the face of misery
She found hopefulness
Feeling better
She had weathered
This depression
Much to her advantage
She resumed her frantic pace
Boundless power
Midnight hour
She enjoyed the race
[III. War Inside My Head]
Napalm showers
Showed the cowards
We weren't there to mess around
Through heat exhaustion
And mind distortion
A military victory mounted on innocent ground
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
Years and years of
Bloodshed and warfare
Our mission was only to get in and kill
A free vacation
Of palm trees and shrapnel
Trading innocence for permanent psychotic hell
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
Feeling strangers staring my way
Reading minds never read
Tasting danger with each word I say
Waging the war inside my head
[IV. The Test That Stumped Them All]
Standing in the darkness
Waiting for the light
The smell of pure adrenaline
Burning in the night
Random blinding flashes
Aiming at the stage
Intro tape begins to roll
Igniting sonic rage
Still they keep me between these hollow walls
Hoping to find in me
The answers to the test that stumped them all
"The boy is just simply crazy
Suffering from delusions
We honestly think that maybe
He might need an institution
He lives in a world of fiction
And really could use some help
We have just the place to fix him
To save him from himself"
Curled up in the darkness
Searching for the light
The smell of sweat and shit
Steaming through the night
Random urine testing
Pills red, pink and blue
Counseling and therapy
Providing not a clue
Still they keep me between these hollow walls
Hoping to find in me
The answers to the test that stumped them all
"We can't seem to find the answers
He seemed such a clear cut case
We cannot just let him leave here
And put all this work to waste
Why don't we try shock treatment
It really might do some help
We have just the tools to fix him
To save him from himself"
[V. Goodnight Kiss]
Goodnight kiss in your nightgown
Lavender in your bed
So innocent as you lie down
Sweet dreams that run through your head
Are you lonely without Mommy's love?
I want you to know I'd die for that moment
You're just a poor girl
Afraid of this cruel world
Taken away from it all
It's been five years to the day and
My tainted blood's still the same
I can't help acting this way and
Those bastard doctors are gonna pay
I'm so lonely without baby's love
I want you to know I'd die for one more moment
I'm just a poor girl
Afraid of this cruel world
Taken away from it all
[VI. Solitary Shell]
He seemed no different from the rest
Just a healthy normal boy
His mama always did her best
And he was daddy's pride and joy
He learned to walk and talk on time
But never cared much to be held
And steadily he would decline
Into his solitary shell
As a boy he was considered somewhat odd
Kept to himself most of the time
He would daydream in and out of his own world
But in every other way he was fine
He's a Monday morning lunatic
Disturbed from time to time
Lost within himself
In his solitary shell
A temporary catatonic
Madman on occasion
When will he break out
Of his solitary shell
He struggled to get through his day
He was helplessly behind
He poured himself onto the page
Writing for hours at a time
As a man he was a danger to himself
LINKIN PARK LYRICS
"Given Up"
Wake in a sweat again
Another day's been laid to waste
In my disgrace
Stuck in my head again
Feels like I'll never leave this place
There's no escape
I'm my own worst enemy
[chorus]
I've given up
I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away
I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong
With me
[end chorus]
I don't know what to take
Thought I was focused but I'm scared
I'm not prepared
I hyperventilate
Looking for help somehow somewhere
And no one cares
I'm my own worst enemy
[chorus]
I've given up
I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away
I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong
With me
[end chorus]
[bridge]
Goddddddd!!!!
Put me out of my misery
Put me out of my misery
Put me out of my
Put me out of my fucking misery
[end bridge]
[chorus]
I've given up
I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away
I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong
With me
[end chorus]
"Bleed It Out"
Yeah here we go for the hundredth time
Hand grenade pins in every line
Throw 'em up and let something shine
Going out of my fucking mind
Filthy mouth, no excuse
Find a new place to hang this noose
String me up from atop these roofs
Knot it tight so i won't get loose
Truth is you can stop and stare
Run myself out and no one cares
Dug the trench out laid down there
With a shovel up out of reach somewhere
Yeah, someone pour it in
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
[End Chorus]
Go stop the show
Choppy words and a sloppy flow
Shotgun opera lock and load
Cock it back and then watch it go
Mama help me I've been cursed
Death is rolling in every verse
Candy paint on his brand new hearse
Can't contain him he knows he works
Fuck this hurts, I won't lie
Doesn't matter how hard I try
Half the words don't mean a thing
And I know that I wont be satisfied
So why try ignoring him
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
I've opened up these scars
I'll make you face this
I've pulled myself so far
I'll make you, face, this, now!!!!
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
I bleed it out
I bleed it out
"Shadow Of The Day"
I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
[Chorus]
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]
In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
[Chorus]
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]
"WHAT I'VE DONE"
IN THIS FAREWELL
THERE’S NO BLOOD
THERE’S NO ALIBI
‘CAUSE I’VE DRAWN REGRET
FROM THE TRUTH
OF A THOUSAND LIES
[PRE-CHORUS:]
SO LET MERCY COME
AND WASH AWAY
WHAT I’VE DONE
[CHORUS:]
I'LL FACE MYSELF
TO CROSS OUT WHAT I’VE BECOME
ERASE MYSELF
AND LET GO OF WHAT I’VE DONE
PUT TO REST
WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF ME
WHILE I CLEAN THIS SLATE
WITH THE HANDS OF UNCERTAINTY
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
FOR WHAT I’VE DONE
I START AGAIN
AND WHATEVER PAIN MAY COME
TODAY THIS ENDS
I’M FORGIVING WHAT I’VE DONE!!!
[CHORUS]
WHAT I’VE DONE
FORGIVING WHAT I’VE DONE
"Leave Out All The Rest"
I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here
So if you're asking me
I want you to know
[Chorus]
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
[End Chorus]
Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what I made
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you
So if you're asking me
I want you to know
[Chorus]
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
[End Chorus]
Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
[Chorus]
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
I can't be who you are
"Hands Held High"
Turn my mike up louder I got to say something
Light weights step to the side when we come in
Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping
People on the street they panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping
Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fuck that I wanna see some fists pumping
Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the cheque
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In their living room laughing like "what did he say?"
[Chorus:]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
In my living room watching but I am not laughing
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen
World is cold the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old it's something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers they're out today
They brush the dust from bullet proof vests away
It's ironic at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"
[Chorus x6]
[x6]
With hands held high into the sky so blue,
As the ocean opens up to swallow you.
"No More Sorrow"
Are you lost
In your lies
Do you tell yourself I don't realize
Your crusade's a disguise
Replace freedom with fear
You trade money for lives
I'm aware of what you've done
[Chorus:]
No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced
I see pain
I see need
I see liars and thieves
Abuse power with greed
I had hope
I believed
But I'm beginning to think that I've been deceived
You will pay for what you've done
[Chorus]
Thieves and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites
[Chorus x2]
Your time has come to be replaced
Your time has come to be erased
"VALENTINE'S DAY"
MY INSIDES ALL TURNED TO ASH, SO SLOW
AND BLEW AWAY AS I COLLAPSED, SO COLD
A BLACK WIND TOOK THEM AWAY, FROM SIGHT
AND HELD THE DARKNESS OVER DAY, THAT NIGHT
AND THE CLOUDS ABOVE MOVE CLOSER
LOOKING SO DISSATISFIED
BUT THE HEARTLESS WIND KEPT BLOWING, BLOWING
I USED TO BE MY OWN PROTECTION, BUT NOT NOW
CAUSE MY PATH HAD LOST DIRECTION, SOMEHOW
A BLACK WIND TOOK YOU AWAY, FROM SIGHT
AND HELD THE DARKNESS OVER DAY, THAT NIGHT
AND THE CLOUDS ABOVE MOVE CLOSER
LOOKING SO DISSATISFIED
AND THE GROUND BELOW GREW COLDER
AS THEY PUT YOU DOWN INSIDE
BUT THE HEARTLESS WIND KEPT BLOWING, BLOWING
SO NOW YOU'RE GONE, AND I WAS WRONG
I NEVER KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE, TO BE ALONE
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(I USED TO BE MY OWN PROTECTION, BUT NOT NOW)
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(CAUSE MY MIND HAS LOST DIRECTION, SOMEHOW)
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(I USED TO BE MY OWN PROTECTION, BUT NOT NOW)
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(CAUSE MY MIND HAS LOST DIRECTION, SOMEHOW)
"In Between"
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be someone else was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
[Chorus]
Between my pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
And things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
[End Chorus]
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to regain your trust was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
[Chorus]
Between my pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
[End Chorus]
And I cannot explain to you
And anything I say or do or plan
Fear is not afraid of you
But guilt's a language you can understand
I cannot explain to you
And anything I say or do
I hope the actions speak the words they can
[Chorus]
For my pride and my promise
For my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is
Pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
[End Chorus]
"The Little Things Give You Away"
Water grey
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere
[Chorus]
Don't want to reach for me do you
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I
Do
[End Chorus]
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
[Chorus]
Don't want to reach for me do you
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away
But there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I
Do
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now
I
Now I do
[End Chorus]
[Brad's Guitar Solo]
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
"No Roads Left"
Standing alone with no direction
How did I fall so far behind?
Why Am I searching for perfection?
Knowing it's something I won't find
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
[Chorus]
I run
Till the silence splits me open
I run
Till it puts me underground
Till I have no breath
And no roads left but one
When did I lose my sense of purpose?
Can I regain what's lost inside?
Why do I feel like I deserve this?
Why does my pain look like my pride?
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I let myself down
In my fear and flaws
[Chorus]
I run
Till the silence splits me open
I run
Till it puts me underground
Till I have no breath
And no roads left but one
No roads left but one
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I run
And the silence splits me open
I run
And it puts me underground
But there's no regret
And no roads left to run
"Morning After"
Caught up against the wall again
Tied and chained to the ball again
Never cease to amaze in minds
So I just sleep sleep sleep please don't
Wake me till the morning after [2x]
Cut and bruised by the fall again
Lick my wounds like a dog again
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel
That I see I see please let it be but don't
Wake me till the morning after [3x]
Oh I'm so tired there has got to be an end
to the pain I feel when I'm
awake and alive alive alive
alive and I'm dreamin'
Caught up against the wall again
Tied and chained to the ball again
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel
That I see I see please let it be but don't
Wake me till the morning after [3x]
Oh I'm so tired there has got to be an end
to the pain I feel when I'm
Awake and alive alive alive
Alive and I'm dreamin'
"In Pieces"
Telling me to go
But hands beg me to stay
Your lips say that you love
Your eyes say that you hate
There's truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
What you build you lay to waste
This truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I've got's what you didn't take
[Chorus]
So I, I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you
You will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets
Don't lie
[End Chorus]
You promise me the sky
Then toss me like a stone
You wrap me in your arms
And chill me to the bone
There's truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I've got's what you didn't take
[Chorus]
So I, I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you
You will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets
Don't lie
So I, I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you
You will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets
Don't lie
[End Chorus]
"IT'S GOING DOWN"
(FEAT. X-ECUTIONERS)
[WOMAN]
[INTRO]
I KNEW I WAS BEING THREATENED
DO YOU THINK IT WAS WORTH HOLDING OUT?
I MEAN I'VE HEARD SOME PRETTY UGLY THINGS ABOUT THOSE GUYS
UGLY STORIES
[X-ECUTIONERS]
WATCH THEM FLEE... WATCH THEM FLEE
RAP RAP RAP UP
WATCH THEM FLEE
HIP-HOP HITS
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
[MIKE SHINODA]
[VERSE 1]
IT'S GOING DOWN
THE RHYTHM PROJECTS 'ROUND THE NEXT SOUND
REFLECTS THE COMPLEX HYBRID DIALECT NOW
DETECTS THE MESH OF MANY ELEMENTS COMPRESSED DOWN
THE MELTING POT OF A SUPER-FUTURESQUE STYLE
THE COMBINATION OF VOCAL CARESS
WITH LUNGS THE GASP FOR BREATH
FROM EMOTIONAL STRESS
WITH SPECIAL EFFECTS
AND A DISTORTED COLLAGE
CAREFULLY LODGED BETWEEN BEATS OF RHYTHMIC BARRAGE
[PRE-CHRUS X2:]
IT'S GOING DOWN
THE LOGICAL PROGRESSION ON THE TIMELINE
THE SEPERATION NARROWED DOWN TO A FINE LINE
TO BLUR THE EDGES SO THEY BLEND TOGETHER PROPERLY
TAKE YOU ON AN AUDIBLE ODYSSEY
NOW IT'S GOING DOWN
A LOGICAL PROGRESSION ON THE TIMELINE
THE SEPERATION NARROWED DOWN TO A FINE LINE
TO BLUR THE EDGES SO THEY BLEND TOGETHER PROPERLY
TAKE YOU ON AN AUDIBLE ODYSSEY
NOW IT'S GOING DOWN
[CHORUS (X-ECUTIONERS WITH MIKE SHINODA):]
PUT IT OUT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE
LP AND X-MEN TO THE 10TH DEGREE (IT'S GOIN DOWN)
NOBODY IN THE WORLD IS SAFE
WHEN WE MELT DOWN THE WAX IN YOUR RECORD CRATE (IT'S GOING DOWN)
[MIKE SHINODA]
[VERSE 3]
ONCE AGAIN IT IS
COMPOSED SENTENCES
ALL TOGETHER VENOMOUS
THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF NATURAL FORCE
PROJECTED DAILY THROUGH THE SOUND OF THE SOURCE
EVERYBODY ON BOARD AS WE BLEND
THE SWORD WITH THE PEN
THE MIGHTIEST THE WEAPONS
SWINGING RIGHT FROM THE CHIN
TO ELEVATE OF MENTAL STATES
LONG GONE WITH THE WIND
TO DEFEND MEN FROM SHODDY IMITATION PRETENDS
IT'S GOING DOWN
STYLE ASSIMILATION READILY
TREKKING THROUGH THE WEAPONRY
OF THE PURE PEDIGREE
CLEVERLY SEEING THROUGH WHATEVER IS AHEAD OF ME
WHATEVER THE WEATHER BE
WE INVENT THE STEADILY
IT'S GOING DOWN SUB-TERRESTRIAL HIGH
I RHYME REGIMENT THAT'S CALLING THE SHOTS
EXECTUTION OF COLLOBORATIVE PLOTS
READY TO BRING THE SEPERATION OF STYLE TO A STOP
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS (X-ECUTIONERS WITH MIKE SHINODA)]
[X-ECUTIONERS]
X-MEN 'BOUT TO BLAST OFF WORLD WIDE
YO IT'S A REQUEST ONLY
X-MEN 'BOUT TO BLAST OFF WORLD WIDE
IT'S BUILT FROM SCRATCH
ALBUM IN STORES SOON
'BOUT TO BLAST OFF WORLD WIDE
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
JUST LIKE THIS
[X-ECUTIONERS]
PUT PUT...PUT IT UP
I SAID IT GOES LIKE THIS
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
IT'S GOING DOWN
PUT PUT...PUT IT UP
I SAID IT GOES LIKE THIS
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
IT'S GOING DOWN
[X-ECUTIONERS, MIKE SHINODA]
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
"Dedicated"
I have a dream of a scene between the green hills
Clouds pull away and the sunlight's revealed
People don't talk about keeping it real
It's understood that they actually will
And intoxicated and stimulated emcees
Staring in the trees, paranoid, are gone in the breeze
Watch them flee, hip-hop hits
Take a walk with me and what you'll see
Is a land where the sand is made up of crushed up wax
And the sky beyond you is krylon blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme
And emcees have left materialism behind them
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night
[CHORUS]
Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real is the kids who think they don't belong
What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun
I've seen a lot of shit, I've talked to a bum
Out on sunset strip, he asked me "How would you feel
If everybody acted like you didn't exist
You'd lose your grip, probably eventually flip."
So let it be known, the only reason that we do this
Is so you can pick it up and just bang your head to it
While emcees fight to see who can be the commonest
Be floatin overhead like a space odyssey monolith
Over seeing the game, over being part of the same ol' thing
It's all gonna change in a hurricane of darkness and pain
And acidic rain and promises that you won't do it again
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night
[Chorus]
Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
[Chorus]
This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real, everybody who doesn't feel safe
What's real, everybody who knows they're out of place
What's real, anybody with nowhere to run
Who hides in the shadows waiting for the sun
"Super Xero (By Myself)"
What do I do to ignore what's behind me?
Do I follow my fate and escape blindly?
Do I hide my pride away from these bad dreams
And give into sad thoughts that are maddening?
Do I let it go and try to stand it?
Or do I try to catch them redhanded?
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness?
Or do I trust nobody and live life in lonliness?
The sunlight burns the skin of sleeping men
I make the right turns but I'm lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up gettin' hurt again
[pre-chorus:]
By myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can't rely on myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can't rely on myself
[chorus]:
I can't hold on
To what I want when I'm stretched so thin
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
To anything watchin' everything spin
With thoughts of failure sinking in
If I turn my back I'm defenseless
And to give in to fate seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they'll take from me 'til everything is gone
If I let them go I'll be outdone
But if I try to catch them I'll be outrun
If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer
Then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer...
[pre-chorus and chorus]
How do you think
That I've lost so much
I'm always afraid
That I'm out of touch
How do you expect
That I will know what to do
When all I know
Is what you tell me to
Don't you (know)
I can't tell you how to make it (go)
No matter what I do, how hard I (try)
I can't seem to convince myself (why)
I'm stuck on the outside
[x2]
[chorus]
I can't hold on
To what I want when I'm stretched so thin
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
To anything watchin' everything spin
With thoughts of failure from with...(in)
"ESAUL (A PLACE FOR MY HEAD)"
RIDING WITH A HEAD FULL OF BODIES ARE RED
AND WHEN THIS X IS STILL STUCK IN MY HEAD
BUT MISLED DOING THE THINGS I DO WOULD MAKE YOU NEVER WANNA COME BACK
BUT AN ALL FRONT ATTACK, SO YOU COULD NEVER RUN FROM THAT
BEING TRAPPED IN THIS BEAU, SOME THAT I NEVER WANTED TO DO
BUT THROUGH IT ALL YOU'VE GOT TO SEE THAT WHAT I WANT TO BE
IS OVER THE PEN AGAIN LETTING IT OUT OF ME
IN THE CENTER OF THE DAY IN THE DREAM, SEEING ALL MY THOUGHTS
GETTING LOST IN BETWEEN, REALIZING ONE THAT THE WAY TO THE SEA
AND THE KILLING AND AGAIN ARE IN THE HEAD WITH THE SCREAMS
I WANNA LIVE IN ANOTHER PLACE
WHERE NO ONE CAN SAY THAT I LIVE FOR THEM
I WANNA BE IN THE ENERGY, NOT WITH THE ENEMY
A PLACE FOR MY HEAD
WE'RE GONNA BE CRUSHED WHEN IT ALL FALLS APART
GOING IN THE HOLLOW, HOPING THAT YOU WON'T KNOW
THE STRAIN IT PUTS TO ME, SEEING WHAT YOU'VE DONE
AND CONSEQUENTLY I'VE RUN AWAY, JUST HIDDEN AGAIN
WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF AN ANGUISH
WANT ME TO SAY THIS, BUT YOU'RE DRAGGING ME DOWN
LOST IN THE CHAOS BEING TOSSED AROUND
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
I WANNA LIVE IN ANOTHER PLACE
WHERE NO ONE CAN SAY THAT I LIVE FOR THEM
I WANNA BE IN THE ENERGY, NOT WITH THE ENEMY
A PLACE FOR MY HEAD
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
I WANNA LIVE IN ANOTHER PLACE
WHERE NO ONE CAN SAY THAT I LIVE FOR THEM
START SEEING IT'S NOT MEANT
TO BE FOR ME
I WANNA BE IN THE ENERGY, NOT WITH THE ENEMY
A PLACE FOR MY HEAD
SHUT!!
UP!!
WHY!!
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
"Qwerty"
I didn't think that I had a debt to pay
'Til they came to take what I had left away
You said you wouldn't put me to the test today
But I remember you saying that yesterday
There was a time when your mind wasn't out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
Like a pill you couldn't swallow so it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your plight
Fire so out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
And like that
Broken down
A victim of you lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies
I don't know what I thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I fought for my place
And drop what I made thought you might say so
I'm guessing that you probably know
When your inside's hollow and you want to be cold
Like a pill I couldn't swallow and it swallow me whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped inside your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies
You're faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Forsaken, what would take me?
Analyzing by the power of your soul
Broken down, a victim of your
Faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Broken down, a victim of your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Wrapped up inside your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies
"SYSTEM"
YOU FELL AWAY,
WHAT MORE CAN I SAY?
THE FEELINGS EVOLVED,
I WON'T LET IT OUT,
I CAN'T REPLACE...
YOUR SCREAMING FACE,
FEELING THE SICKNESS INSIDE
WHY WON'T YOU DIE?
YOUR BLOOD IN MINE…
WE'LL BE FINE…
THEN YOUR BODY WILL BE MINE
SO MANY WORDS
CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FACE
THIS FEELING'S EVOLVED
SO SOON TO BREAK OUT
I CAN'T RELATE
TO A HAPPY STATE
FEELING THE BLOOD RUN INSIDE
WHY WON'T YOU DIE?
YOUR BLOOD IN MINE…
WE'LL BE FINE…
THEN YOUR BODY WILL BE MINE
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING HARD FOR ME?
KEEP ME DOWN TO WHAT YOU THINK I SHOULD BE!
MUST YOU TEMPT ME AND PROVOKE THE MINISTRY?
KEEP ON TRYING I’LL NOT DIE SO EASILY
I WILL NOT DIE…
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING HARD FOR ME?
I WILL NOT DIE…
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING HARD FOR ME?
I WILL NOT DIE…
WHY WON'T YOU DIE?
YOUR BLOOD IS MINE….
WE'LL BE FINE….
THEN YOUR BODY WILL BE MINE [X2]
Wake in a sweat again
Another day's been laid to waste
In my disgrace
Stuck in my head again
Feels like I'll never leave this place
There's no escape
I'm my own worst enemy
[chorus]
I've given up
I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away
I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong
With me
[end chorus]
I don't know what to take
Thought I was focused but I'm scared
I'm not prepared
I hyperventilate
Looking for help somehow somewhere
And no one cares
I'm my own worst enemy
[chorus]
I've given up
I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away
I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong
With me
[end chorus]
[bridge]
Goddddddd!!!!
Put me out of my misery
Put me out of my misery
Put me out of my
Put me out of my fucking misery
[end bridge]
[chorus]
I've given up
I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say
Take this all away
I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong
With me
[end chorus]
"Bleed It Out"
Yeah here we go for the hundredth time
Hand grenade pins in every line
Throw 'em up and let something shine
Going out of my fucking mind
Filthy mouth, no excuse
Find a new place to hang this noose
String me up from atop these roofs
Knot it tight so i won't get loose
Truth is you can stop and stare
Run myself out and no one cares
Dug the trench out laid down there
With a shovel up out of reach somewhere
Yeah, someone pour it in
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
[End Chorus]
Go stop the show
Choppy words and a sloppy flow
Shotgun opera lock and load
Cock it back and then watch it go
Mama help me I've been cursed
Death is rolling in every verse
Candy paint on his brand new hearse
Can't contain him he knows he works
Fuck this hurts, I won't lie
Doesn't matter how hard I try
Half the words don't mean a thing
And I know that I wont be satisfied
So why try ignoring him
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
I've opened up these scars
I'll make you face this
I've pulled myself so far
I'll make you, face, this, now!!!!
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
I bleed it out
I bleed it out
"Shadow Of The Day"
I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
[Chorus]
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]
In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
[Chorus]
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
[End Chorus]
"WHAT I'VE DONE"
IN THIS FAREWELL
THERE’S NO BLOOD
THERE’S NO ALIBI
‘CAUSE I’VE DRAWN REGRET
FROM THE TRUTH
OF A THOUSAND LIES
[PRE-CHORUS:]
SO LET MERCY COME
AND WASH AWAY
WHAT I’VE DONE
[CHORUS:]
I'LL FACE MYSELF
TO CROSS OUT WHAT I’VE BECOME
ERASE MYSELF
AND LET GO OF WHAT I’VE DONE
PUT TO REST
WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF ME
WHILE I CLEAN THIS SLATE
WITH THE HANDS OF UNCERTAINTY
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
FOR WHAT I’VE DONE
I START AGAIN
AND WHATEVER PAIN MAY COME
TODAY THIS ENDS
I’M FORGIVING WHAT I’VE DONE!!!
[CHORUS]
WHAT I’VE DONE
FORGIVING WHAT I’VE DONE
"Leave Out All The Rest"
I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here
So if you're asking me
I want you to know
[Chorus]
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
[End Chorus]
Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what I made
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you
So if you're asking me
I want you to know
[Chorus]
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
[End Chorus]
Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
[Chorus]
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
I can't be who you are
"Hands Held High"
Turn my mike up louder I got to say something
Light weights step to the side when we come in
Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping
People on the street they panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping
Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fuck that I wanna see some fists pumping
Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the cheque
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In their living room laughing like "what did he say?"
[Chorus:]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
In my living room watching but I am not laughing
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen
World is cold the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old it's something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers they're out today
They brush the dust from bullet proof vests away
It's ironic at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"
[Chorus x6]
[x6]
With hands held high into the sky so blue,
As the ocean opens up to swallow you.
"No More Sorrow"
Are you lost
In your lies
Do you tell yourself I don't realize
Your crusade's a disguise
Replace freedom with fear
You trade money for lives
I'm aware of what you've done
[Chorus:]
No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced
I see pain
I see need
I see liars and thieves
Abuse power with greed
I had hope
I believed
But I'm beginning to think that I've been deceived
You will pay for what you've done
[Chorus]
Thieves and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites
[Chorus x2]
Your time has come to be replaced
Your time has come to be erased
"VALENTINE'S DAY"
MY INSIDES ALL TURNED TO ASH, SO SLOW
AND BLEW AWAY AS I COLLAPSED, SO COLD
A BLACK WIND TOOK THEM AWAY, FROM SIGHT
AND HELD THE DARKNESS OVER DAY, THAT NIGHT
AND THE CLOUDS ABOVE MOVE CLOSER
LOOKING SO DISSATISFIED
BUT THE HEARTLESS WIND KEPT BLOWING, BLOWING
I USED TO BE MY OWN PROTECTION, BUT NOT NOW
CAUSE MY PATH HAD LOST DIRECTION, SOMEHOW
A BLACK WIND TOOK YOU AWAY, FROM SIGHT
AND HELD THE DARKNESS OVER DAY, THAT NIGHT
AND THE CLOUDS ABOVE MOVE CLOSER
LOOKING SO DISSATISFIED
AND THE GROUND BELOW GREW COLDER
AS THEY PUT YOU DOWN INSIDE
BUT THE HEARTLESS WIND KEPT BLOWING, BLOWING
SO NOW YOU'RE GONE, AND I WAS WRONG
I NEVER KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE, TO BE ALONE
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(I USED TO BE MY OWN PROTECTION, BUT NOT NOW)
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(CAUSE MY MIND HAS LOST DIRECTION, SOMEHOW)
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(I USED TO BE MY OWN PROTECTION, BUT NOT NOW)
ON A VALENTINE'S DAY, ON A VALENTINE'S DAY
(CAUSE MY MIND HAS LOST DIRECTION, SOMEHOW)
"In Between"
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to be someone else was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
[Chorus]
Between my pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
And things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
[End Chorus]
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I'm about to say
But trying to regain your trust was harder than it seemed
And somehow I got caught up in between
[Chorus]
Between my pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
[End Chorus]
And I cannot explain to you
And anything I say or do or plan
Fear is not afraid of you
But guilt's a language you can understand
I cannot explain to you
And anything I say or do
I hope the actions speak the words they can
[Chorus]
For my pride and my promise
For my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is
Pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
The only thing that's worse than one is none
[End Chorus]
"The Little Things Give You Away"
Water grey
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere
[Chorus]
Don't want to reach for me do you
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I
Do
[End Chorus]
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
[Chorus]
Don't want to reach for me do you
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away
But there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I
Do
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now
I
Now I do
[End Chorus]
[Brad's Guitar Solo]
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
(Little things give you away)
"No Roads Left"
Standing alone with no direction
How did I fall so far behind?
Why Am I searching for perfection?
Knowing it's something I won't find
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
[Chorus]
I run
Till the silence splits me open
I run
Till it puts me underground
Till I have no breath
And no roads left but one
When did I lose my sense of purpose?
Can I regain what's lost inside?
Why do I feel like I deserve this?
Why does my pain look like my pride?
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I let myself down
In my fear and flaws
[Chorus]
I run
Till the silence splits me open
I run
Till it puts me underground
Till I have no breath
And no roads left but one
No roads left but one
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I run
And the silence splits me open
I run
And it puts me underground
But there's no regret
And no roads left to run
"Morning After"
Caught up against the wall again
Tied and chained to the ball again
Never cease to amaze in minds
So I just sleep sleep sleep please don't
Wake me till the morning after [2x]
Cut and bruised by the fall again
Lick my wounds like a dog again
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel
That I see I see please let it be but don't
Wake me till the morning after [3x]
Oh I'm so tired there has got to be an end
to the pain I feel when I'm
awake and alive alive alive
alive and I'm dreamin'
Caught up against the wall again
Tied and chained to the ball again
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel
That I see I see please let it be but don't
Wake me till the morning after [3x]
Oh I'm so tired there has got to be an end
to the pain I feel when I'm
Awake and alive alive alive
Alive and I'm dreamin'
"In Pieces"
Telling me to go
But hands beg me to stay
Your lips say that you love
Your eyes say that you hate
There's truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
What you build you lay to waste
This truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I've got's what you didn't take
[Chorus]
So I, I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you
You will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets
Don't lie
[End Chorus]
You promise me the sky
Then toss me like a stone
You wrap me in your arms
And chill me to the bone
There's truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I've got's what you didn't take
[Chorus]
So I, I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you
You will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets
Don't lie
So I, I won't be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you
You will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets
Don't lie
[End Chorus]
"IT'S GOING DOWN"
(FEAT. X-ECUTIONERS)
[WOMAN]
[INTRO]
I KNEW I WAS BEING THREATENED
DO YOU THINK IT WAS WORTH HOLDING OUT?
I MEAN I'VE HEARD SOME PRETTY UGLY THINGS ABOUT THOSE GUYS
UGLY STORIES
[X-ECUTIONERS]
WATCH THEM FLEE... WATCH THEM FLEE
RAP RAP RAP UP
WATCH THEM FLEE
HIP-HOP HITS
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
[MIKE SHINODA]
[VERSE 1]
IT'S GOING DOWN
THE RHYTHM PROJECTS 'ROUND THE NEXT SOUND
REFLECTS THE COMPLEX HYBRID DIALECT NOW
DETECTS THE MESH OF MANY ELEMENTS COMPRESSED DOWN
THE MELTING POT OF A SUPER-FUTURESQUE STYLE
THE COMBINATION OF VOCAL CARESS
WITH LUNGS THE GASP FOR BREATH
FROM EMOTIONAL STRESS
WITH SPECIAL EFFECTS
AND A DISTORTED COLLAGE
CAREFULLY LODGED BETWEEN BEATS OF RHYTHMIC BARRAGE
[PRE-CHRUS X2:]
IT'S GOING DOWN
THE LOGICAL PROGRESSION ON THE TIMELINE
THE SEPERATION NARROWED DOWN TO A FINE LINE
TO BLUR THE EDGES SO THEY BLEND TOGETHER PROPERLY
TAKE YOU ON AN AUDIBLE ODYSSEY
NOW IT'S GOING DOWN
A LOGICAL PROGRESSION ON THE TIMELINE
THE SEPERATION NARROWED DOWN TO A FINE LINE
TO BLUR THE EDGES SO THEY BLEND TOGETHER PROPERLY
TAKE YOU ON AN AUDIBLE ODYSSEY
NOW IT'S GOING DOWN
[CHORUS (X-ECUTIONERS WITH MIKE SHINODA):]
PUT IT OUT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE
LP AND X-MEN TO THE 10TH DEGREE (IT'S GOIN DOWN)
NOBODY IN THE WORLD IS SAFE
WHEN WE MELT DOWN THE WAX IN YOUR RECORD CRATE (IT'S GOING DOWN)
[MIKE SHINODA]
[VERSE 3]
ONCE AGAIN IT IS
COMPOSED SENTENCES
ALL TOGETHER VENOMOUS
THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF NATURAL FORCE
PROJECTED DAILY THROUGH THE SOUND OF THE SOURCE
EVERYBODY ON BOARD AS WE BLEND
THE SWORD WITH THE PEN
THE MIGHTIEST THE WEAPONS
SWINGING RIGHT FROM THE CHIN
TO ELEVATE OF MENTAL STATES
LONG GONE WITH THE WIND
TO DEFEND MEN FROM SHODDY IMITATION PRETENDS
IT'S GOING DOWN
STYLE ASSIMILATION READILY
TREKKING THROUGH THE WEAPONRY
OF THE PURE PEDIGREE
CLEVERLY SEEING THROUGH WHATEVER IS AHEAD OF ME
WHATEVER THE WEATHER BE
WE INVENT THE STEADILY
IT'S GOING DOWN SUB-TERRESTRIAL HIGH
I RHYME REGIMENT THAT'S CALLING THE SHOTS
EXECTUTION OF COLLOBORATIVE PLOTS
READY TO BRING THE SEPERATION OF STYLE TO A STOP
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS (X-ECUTIONERS WITH MIKE SHINODA)]
[X-ECUTIONERS]
X-MEN 'BOUT TO BLAST OFF WORLD WIDE
YO IT'S A REQUEST ONLY
X-MEN 'BOUT TO BLAST OFF WORLD WIDE
IT'S BUILT FROM SCRATCH
ALBUM IN STORES SOON
'BOUT TO BLAST OFF WORLD WIDE
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
JUST LIKE THIS
[X-ECUTIONERS]
PUT PUT...PUT IT UP
I SAID IT GOES LIKE THIS
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
IT'S GOING DOWN
PUT PUT...PUT IT UP
I SAID IT GOES LIKE THIS
AND YOU DO IT LIKE THIS
IT'S GOING DOWN
[X-ECUTIONERS, MIKE SHINODA]
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
LIKE THIS
"Dedicated"
I have a dream of a scene between the green hills
Clouds pull away and the sunlight's revealed
People don't talk about keeping it real
It's understood that they actually will
And intoxicated and stimulated emcees
Staring in the trees, paranoid, are gone in the breeze
Watch them flee, hip-hop hits
Take a walk with me and what you'll see
Is a land where the sand is made up of crushed up wax
And the sky beyond you is krylon blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme
And emcees have left materialism behind them
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night
[CHORUS]
Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real is the kids who think they don't belong
What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun
I've seen a lot of shit, I've talked to a bum
Out on sunset strip, he asked me "How would you feel
If everybody acted like you didn't exist
You'd lose your grip, probably eventually flip."
So let it be known, the only reason that we do this
Is so you can pick it up and just bang your head to it
While emcees fight to see who can be the commonest
Be floatin overhead like a space odyssey monolith
Over seeing the game, over being part of the same ol' thing
It's all gonna change in a hurricane of darkness and pain
And acidic rain and promises that you won't do it again
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night
[Chorus]
Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
[Chorus]
This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real, everybody who doesn't feel safe
What's real, everybody who knows they're out of place
What's real, anybody with nowhere to run
Who hides in the shadows waiting for the sun
"Super Xero (By Myself)"
What do I do to ignore what's behind me?
Do I follow my fate and escape blindly?
Do I hide my pride away from these bad dreams
And give into sad thoughts that are maddening?
Do I let it go and try to stand it?
Or do I try to catch them redhanded?
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness?
Or do I trust nobody and live life in lonliness?
The sunlight burns the skin of sleeping men
I make the right turns but I'm lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up gettin' hurt again
[pre-chorus:]
By myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can't rely on myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can't rely on myself
[chorus]:
I can't hold on
To what I want when I'm stretched so thin
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
To anything watchin' everything spin
With thoughts of failure sinking in
If I turn my back I'm defenseless
And to give in to fate seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they'll take from me 'til everything is gone
If I let them go I'll be outdone
But if I try to catch them I'll be outrun
If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer
Then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer...
[pre-chorus and chorus]
How do you think
That I've lost so much
I'm always afraid
That I'm out of touch
How do you expect
That I will know what to do
When all I know
Is what you tell me to
Don't you (know)
I can't tell you how to make it (go)
No matter what I do, how hard I (try)
I can't seem to convince myself (why)
I'm stuck on the outside
[x2]
[chorus]
I can't hold on
To what I want when I'm stretched so thin
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
To anything watchin' everything spin
With thoughts of failure from with...(in)
"ESAUL (A PLACE FOR MY HEAD)"
RIDING WITH A HEAD FULL OF BODIES ARE RED
AND WHEN THIS X IS STILL STUCK IN MY HEAD
BUT MISLED DOING THE THINGS I DO WOULD MAKE YOU NEVER WANNA COME BACK
BUT AN ALL FRONT ATTACK, SO YOU COULD NEVER RUN FROM THAT
BEING TRAPPED IN THIS BEAU, SOME THAT I NEVER WANTED TO DO
BUT THROUGH IT ALL YOU'VE GOT TO SEE THAT WHAT I WANT TO BE
IS OVER THE PEN AGAIN LETTING IT OUT OF ME
IN THE CENTER OF THE DAY IN THE DREAM, SEEING ALL MY THOUGHTS
GETTING LOST IN BETWEEN, REALIZING ONE THAT THE WAY TO THE SEA
AND THE KILLING AND AGAIN ARE IN THE HEAD WITH THE SCREAMS
I WANNA LIVE IN ANOTHER PLACE
WHERE NO ONE CAN SAY THAT I LIVE FOR THEM
I WANNA BE IN THE ENERGY, NOT WITH THE ENEMY
A PLACE FOR MY HEAD
WE'RE GONNA BE CRUSHED WHEN IT ALL FALLS APART
GOING IN THE HOLLOW, HOPING THAT YOU WON'T KNOW
THE STRAIN IT PUTS TO ME, SEEING WHAT YOU'VE DONE
AND CONSEQUENTLY I'VE RUN AWAY, JUST HIDDEN AGAIN
WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF AN ANGUISH
WANT ME TO SAY THIS, BUT YOU'RE DRAGGING ME DOWN
LOST IN THE CHAOS BEING TOSSED AROUND
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
I WANNA LIVE IN ANOTHER PLACE
WHERE NO ONE CAN SAY THAT I LIVE FOR THEM
I WANNA BE IN THE ENERGY, NOT WITH THE ENEMY
A PLACE FOR MY HEAD
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME
GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
YOU
TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME, GO AWAY
I WANNA LIVE IN ANOTHER PLACE
WHERE NO ONE CAN SAY THAT I LIVE FOR THEM
START SEEING IT'S NOT MEANT
TO BE FOR ME
I WANNA BE IN THE ENERGY, NOT WITH THE ENEMY
A PLACE FOR MY HEAD
SHUT!!
UP!!
WHY!!
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
SINGING AGAIN TO MYSELF, A HEAD FULL OF HECTIC
HOPE THAT SOME DAY YOU'LL REGRET THIS
EVERYTHING'S THE WRONG PLACE, THE WRONG TIME
ADDING TO THE PANIC OF MY CONFINE
"Qwerty"
I didn't think that I had a debt to pay
'Til they came to take what I had left away
You said you wouldn't put me to the test today
But I remember you saying that yesterday
There was a time when your mind wasn't out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
Like a pill you couldn't swallow so it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your plight
Fire so out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
And like that
Broken down
A victim of you lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies
I don't know what I thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I fought for my place
And drop what I made thought you might say so
I'm guessing that you probably know
When your inside's hollow and you want to be cold
Like a pill I couldn't swallow and it swallow me whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped inside your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies
You're faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Forsaken, what would take me?
Analyzing by the power of your soul
Broken down, a victim of your
Faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Broken down, a victim of your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Wrapped up inside your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies
"SYSTEM"
YOU FELL AWAY,
WHAT MORE CAN I SAY?
THE FEELINGS EVOLVED,
I WON'T LET IT OUT,
I CAN'T REPLACE...
YOUR SCREAMING FACE,
FEELING THE SICKNESS INSIDE
WHY WON'T YOU DIE?
YOUR BLOOD IN MINE…
WE'LL BE FINE…
THEN YOUR BODY WILL BE MINE
SO MANY WORDS
CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FACE
THIS FEELING'S EVOLVED
SO SOON TO BREAK OUT
I CAN'T RELATE
TO A HAPPY STATE
FEELING THE BLOOD RUN INSIDE
WHY WON'T YOU DIE?
YOUR BLOOD IN MINE…
WE'LL BE FINE…
THEN YOUR BODY WILL BE MINE
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING HARD FOR ME?
KEEP ME DOWN TO WHAT YOU THINK I SHOULD BE!
MUST YOU TEMPT ME AND PROVOKE THE MINISTRY?
KEEP ON TRYING I’LL NOT DIE SO EASILY
I WILL NOT DIE…
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING HARD FOR ME?
I WILL NOT DIE…
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING HARD FOR ME?
I WILL NOT DIE…
WHY WON'T YOU DIE?
YOUR BLOOD IS MINE….
WE'LL BE FINE….
THEN YOUR BODY WILL BE MINE [X2]
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