I wouldn't have been able to recite them off by heart if that's what you mean. But everytime I listened to And One i looked up the lyrics. So awesome!
Not gonna lie, today is the first time that I saw the official lyrics. That's what I meant. Was that the first time you saw the official lyrics?
Hands Held High is a song I really love and IMO it belongs to the best lyrics. Though, I Have Not Begun and When They Come For Me are also really amazing.
Yeah I had a couple of the words fairly wrong, especially the second quarter of the verse. But apart from that it pretty much matches what I saw.
Bleed It Out, Until It Breaks (last verse), High Voltage, Hands Held High, Victimized (especially live), A Place for My Head, Untitled pretty sums up everything.
The ending of And One, Carousel, Part of Me, Step Up, Papercut, A Place for my Head, Slip, Dedicated, Forgotten, By Myself, With You and High Voltage
Blackbirds, And One, Part of Me, Papercut, In the End, Waiting For the End, Dedicated, A Place For My Head, and Victimized.
And One outro, With You, Forgotten, Frgt/10, High Voltage, It's Goin' Down, Bleed It Out, Rock N' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) verse, Blackbirds, Dedicated, pretty much it.
I've always loved these lyrics from "Forgotten" A little piece of paper with a picture drawn floats On down the street till the wind is gone The memory now is like the picture was then When the paper's crumpled up it can't be perfect again
I don't entirely trust what's on linknpark.com; in my mind, some unpaid intern transcribed them by ear ;D but most of that is what I go by anyway
Mike's lyrics in Forgotten are the best part of the song. I wish the chorus was a bit better in that song,, it's not bad but could have been better
Forgot to mention I love Mike's lyrics in the Esaul demos (yes all of them) and Untitled. UGHHHH so good!
I loved all his rapping on the Hybrid Theory EP. Seriously, Part Of Me, Step Up, Carousel. All some of his best. I think he was at his peak at that point with his rhyme scheme. It seemed after that he got less concerned about his flow and more about the whole production of the songs as a whole.