In Pieces is absolutely fucking magical, and it's all thanks to the little details. Chester vocals are hauntingly beautiful, and the fact that you can actually hear him inhaling and exhaling just amplifies the passion. The vulnerability and desperation in his voice when he half growls ("I, I won't be the ONE / YOU, you will be ALONE") words in the chorus makes him seem incredibly human. The staccato guitar riff brings a light reggae-rock element that feeds energy to the rising first half. The lyrics are equally intimate and poetic. And then lightning strikes the bridge with a weaving guitar solo that ignites In Pieces, progressing the song from a solemn warning into a rock anthem that fires on all cylinders. The song will forever be classified as one of Linkin Park's "sleeper hits" in my eyes. Not always remembered by the fan base, but never forgotten. Of course, this is all coming from someone who suffered from a manipulative relationship a few years ago and basically absorbed this song into my soul as therapy. But even now in a happy relationship this song is flawless to listen to. Also a note to OP. They did add an additional line to In Pieces live at the end of the song where Chester would sing "don't lie, to me" as the song faded out.
I always thought "I won't be the one to leave this in pieces" meant that the singer wouldn't be the one to tear the relationship apart. If it failed, it wouldn't him to break it apart. It's all dependent on point of view, I guess.
The live performance of this on the iTunes SoHO EP was really good. Also as someone stated above, the addition of "Don't lie........to me" on the end gives the song an all-round better conclusion in my opinion
Mintues to midnight on the whole is beautiful. The album is underrated. Too bad the band won't play anything except the singles from it live because except NMS, the other songs from the album aren't high energy enough for the hunting party tour.
I meant that No more sorrow is the only track other than singles that could be played as the rest of the songs are not energetic enough for the THP tour (). I didn't mean that the band is going to play NMS
I love In Pieces. The way the instrumentation progresses throughout the song is very nice, starting from a marimba and drumbeat to a full-fledged rock song. A lot of things here that hadn't been done in LP's catalog before this: Different chord progression, different instruments, noticeable bassline, staccato guitar, and a guitar solo. The lyrics are pretty good, and Chester's delivery makes them better, like how Faint Into Pieces said he breathes hard on the chorus. The guitar solo is pretty nice too, I wish Brad had continued doing different guitar work like that onto ATS and LT. Live, it isn't that much different other than Brad changing the solo by adding some extra notes (and occasionally forgetting some) and Chester ending with "Don't lie...To ME" But it's an all-around good song and compared to In Between, it has just about as many new elements. The delivery of them in the song was just way better. Also, is QWERTY going to be used? Chronologically, we missed that, but that was also an LPU release so I understand. But NRL should be used after TLTGYA because we used My December and High Voltage too. We Made It? Will that make it?
There is no edition of Minutes to Midnight with QWERTY on it, so we're skipping it. There's also that LPU Session thread, if you guys want to discuss it, go ahead. After The Little Things Give You Away, we're doing No Roads Left as it was a new track first released on Minutes to Midnight tour edition. We could do Across The Line aswell, but I'll still decide on that one. We Made It definitely not. EDIT: Skipping Across The Line as it was first released on LPU 9.0. Again, there's a thread for that too.
Closing. "The Little Things Give You Away" is the twelfth and final track on Linkin Park's third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. Up until the release of "A Line In The Sand" in 2014, this was the longest song the band ever included on a studio album, clocking in at 6 minutes and 23 seconds. The demo for the song was started by Rob Bourdon, and contained the drum part that can now be heard in the bridge of the song. The demo was titled "Drum Song", and was subsequently released on LP Underground 9.0: Demos. The song is the home to the longest, most complex guitar solo Brad had ever written up until that point, and maybe even up to date. The solo was not a part of the original demo, it was added afterwards, after Brad played the solo to Mike, who loved it. A live version of the song was released on LP Underground 7.0. The booklet notes for the song in the Minutes to Midnight booklet read: The song is very slow, with it's BPM being only 70. It begins with a sampled drumline which is repeated through the entire song, most noticably until the second chorus. It is soon joined by acoustic guitar before Chester opens the first verse. Personally, I think on this song Chester gave one of the best vocal performances ever in a Linkin Park song. Quickly comes the chorus, where Chester sings, doubled by another recording of him singing. The acoustic guitar becomes electronic as the song slowly starts building. The second chorus sees a real drumline from Rob Bourdon appearing. You'd think it would go strong until the end, but the song soon goes into what feels like a reprise of the beginning. But then comes the crucial part of the song. The guitar solo. It's really a moment that defines the song. The ending of the song is truly special. Three vocal tracks overlapping, and creating one of the most beautiful moments in Linkin Park's discography. Chester's "oh"'s, Mike repeating "the little things give you away..." while singing the chorus which was sung by Chester during the entire song. You can feel it comes straight from the heart. It's no secret that the band is very satisfied by the track. In the Making of Minutes to Midnight, the band calls the song "the pinnacle of what we can achieve as a band". Brad Delson also stated the song is "the song of which I'm probably most proud that we've ever done". Before the release of the album, the band spoke on the song in a track by track analysis of the album in Kerrang!: Lyrically, the song carries a very strong message. It is mentioned in the Mintues to Midnight booklet that the song was written in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, after the band visited New Orleans. Though the song is as always open for interpretation, it was most likely written about the government's slow, delayed response to the flooding the hurricane caused. If you take a good look at the lyrics, this is one of the most political songs the band has written. The flood references are pretty obvious right from the start - "water grey/through the windows, up the stairs". The chorus of the song gives the song an even darker tone, as the band mentions how little the politicians care for the people - "don't want to reach for me, do you/I mean nothing to you". The chorus ends with one of the most ironic lines the band has ever written, yet one with the most meaning - "all you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you/and six feet underwater, I do". The people are calling to be saved, but they still don't care. The second verse centers around the after math of the hurricane, and those who unfortunately left us - "hope decays, generations dissapear". As much as it is one of the bands best instrumentally, it is also one of the best lyrically. The bands longest, most progressive song was nothing short of spectacular live. We're lucky that the band decided to play the song in Milton Keynes, so it was filmed for their live CD/DVD Road to Revolution. During that performance, and many others, Mike played a new piano intro not included on the album version that added to the atmosphere of the song. Just as the song was written about the Hurricane Katrina, the band would occasionally dedicate the song to the victims of the hurricane. It was played through the Minutes to Midnight touring cyle, but dropped from A Thousand Suns onwards. The first performance happened aon May 24, 2007 in Copenhagen, during the same show where "Leave Out All The Rest" had it's live debut. The last performance happened over a year later on August 23, 2008 in Dallas. I'll embed the performance from the June 29, 2008 in Milton Keynes below. So that's it for Minutes to Midnight. We started on Wake and ended up here. Don't get too excited like I did, there's still a bit of time left before we head on to A Thousand Suns. We're gonna do "No Roads Left" and "New Divide" first.