To find myself again My walls are closing in (Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced That there's just too much pressure to take) I've felt this way before So insecure and One thing, I don’t know why It doesn’t even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme To remind myself how I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I’m surprised it got so (far) Things aren’t the way they were before You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me In the end
We held our breath when the clouds began to form But you were lost in the beating of the storm But in the end we were meant to be apart Like separate chambers of the human heart - I know what it takes to move on, I know how it feels to lie, All I wanna do Is trade this life for something new Holding on to what I haven't got
I don't know what's worth fighting for Or why I have to scream But now I have some clarity To show you what I mean
I did it all for the Nookie!! So you can take that cookie!! And stick it up your yeah!! Come on!! I did it all for the Nookie!!
God bless us everyone, We're a broken people living under loaded gun. And it can't be outfought, It can't be outdone, It can't be outmatched, It can't be outrun. No!
Wow, it really is amazing how much diversity the lyricism of LP has, whether the lyrics themselves are simple and straight-forward, or complex and symbolic. Here are only some of my favorite lyrical moments from each album: Hybrid Theory: Forgotten Moving all around / screaming of the ups and downs Pollution manifested in perpetual sound The wheels go round and the sunset creeps behind Street lamps, chain-link and concrete 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 Meteora: Nobody's Listening I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress handful of anger, held in my chest Uphill struggle Blood sweat and tears Nothing to gain Everything to fear Minutes to Midnight: No More Sorrow 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 A Thousand Suns: The Catalyst God save us everyone, Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns? For the sins of our hands, The sins of our tongues, The sins of our fathers, The sins of our young. No! And this: Like memories in cold decay, Transmissions echoing away, Far from the world of you and I, Where oceans bleed into the sky! Living Things: Until It Breaks It ain't over 'Cause the shark's on the left side, the snake's on the right And anything you do, they wanna get a little bite It really doesn't matter if you're wrong or if you're right 'Cause once they get their teeth in nothing really fights And this: We swim against the rising waves And crash against the shore The body bends until it breaks The early morning sings no more The Hunting Party: A Line in the Sand Today I looked for a sign With flames in my hands A line in the sand Between yours and mine And it came Like fire from below Your greed led the call My flag had to fall But little did you know And, of course, all of this: I had never been a coward I had never seen blood You had sold me an ocean And I was lost in the flood We were counting on a leader We were driven by need But couldn't take temptation And we were blinded by greed You were steady as a sniper We were waiting on a wire So we never saw it coming When you ran from the fire You can try intimidation And you can try to ignore But when the time comes calling, yeah You are gonna get yours This is merely a sampling of the lyricism that has stood out to me from LP, with there being many more examples I have not listed.
And One Breaking a part of my heart to find release Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace Forgotten From the top to the bottom Bottom to top I stop At the core I’ve forgotten In the middle of my thoughts Taken far from my safety The picture is there The memory won’t escape me But why should I care P5nhg Me A*wy When I look into your eyes there’s nothing there to see Nothing but my own mistakes staring back at me Easier to Run Sometimes I remember the darkness of my past Bringing back these memories I wish I didn't have Sometimes I think of letting go and never looking back And never moving forward so there'd never be a past Breaking the Habit I don’t know what’s worth fighting for Or why I have to scream But now I have some clarity To show you what I mean I don’t know how I got this way I’ll never be alright Nobody's Listening Heart full of pain / Head full of stress Handful of anger / Held in my chest (And everything left is a waste of time I hate my rhymes [But hate everyone else's more]) (Uphill struggle / Blood sweat and tears Nothing to gain / Everything to fear) Given Up I'm my own worst enemy Hands Held High It’s ironic, at times like this you’d pray But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday There’s bombs on the buses, bikes, roads Inside your market, your shops, and 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” When They Come for Me ‘Cause once you got a theory of how the thing works Everybody wants the next thing to be just like the first Waiting for the End This is not the end, this is not the beginning Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision But you listen through the tone and the violent rhythm and Though the words sound steady, something empty’s within ‘em We say yeah / with fists flying up in the air Like we’re holding onto something that’s invisible there ‘Cause we’re living at the mercy of the pain and fear Until we dead it / forget it / let it all disappear Wretches and Kings The front of the attack is exactly where I’m at Somewhere in between The kick and the hi hat The pen and the contract The pitch and the contact So get with the combat / I’m letting ‘em know There ain’t shit you can say to make me back down no So / push the button let the whole thing blow The Catalyst God bless us every one We’re a broken people living under loaded gun And it can’t be outfought It can’t be outdone It can’t be outmatched It can’t be outrun And when I close my eyes tonight To symphonies of blinding light Blackbirds I drop to the floor like I did before Stop watching / I’m coughing / I can’t be more What I want and what I need are at constant war Like a well full of poison / a rotten core The blood goes thin / the fever stings And I shake from the hell that the habits bring Let the sick ones down / the bells will ring Put pennies on the eyes / let the dead men sing Slip Sometimes you've got no control of where you go Taking you down a road you don't know And you feel so lost that you wanna hide your face You don't recognize the place you're in Sometimes the sun doesn't shine your way Sometimes the night doesn't turn to day Sometimes the light's so bright it burns through the night and keeps the darkness at bay Roads Untraveled ’Cause the love that you lost Wasn’t worth what it cost And in time you’ll be glad it’s gone Until It Breaks Steady little soldier, I ain’t standing next to you I’d be laying on the ground before you’re even in my view Guilty All the Same Tell us all again What you think we should be What the answers are What it is we can’t see Final Masquerade All I ever wanted / the secrets that you keep All you ever wanted / the truth I couldn’t speak ’Cause I can’t see forgiveness, and you can’t see the crime But we both keep on waiting for what we left behind White Noise Your words are clear but their meanings gone. The notes are right but the tunings wrong Fear is dancing inside your lies exposing secrets that you've disguised Not a scratch where you can take a scar
Roads Untraveled ’Cause the love that you lost Wasn’t worth what it cost And in time you’ll be glad it’s gone Damn, they are so fucking right.
[Mike] I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night, shining with the light from the sun, the sun doesnt give light to the moon, assuming the moons gonna owe it one, and makes think of how you act to me, you do favors that rapidly, you just turn around and start asking me about things you want back from me, Im sick of the tension, sick of the hunger, sick of you acting like I owe you this, find another place to feed your greed, while I find a place to rest, Im sick of the tension, sick of the hunger, sick of you acting like I oweyou this, find another place to feed your greed, while I find a place to rest. Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/linkin-park/plc-4-mie-haed-lyrics/#AhXHIoHbV4ge8oAU.99