Linkin Park

Lyrics

• 1. In The End

  It starts with
  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 explain in due time
  All I know
  Time is a valuable thing
  Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
  Watch it count down to the end of the day
  The clock ticks life away
  It's so unreal
  Didn't look out below
  Watch the time go right out the window
  Trying to hold on / but didn't even know
  Wasted it all just to
  Watch you go
  I kept everything inside and even though I tried / it all fell apart
  What it meant to me / will eventually / be a memory / of a time when

  I tried so hard
  And got so far
  But in the end
  It doesn't even matter
  I had to fall
  And lose it all
  But in the end
  It doesn't even matter

  One thing / I don't know why
  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
  You kept everything inside and even though I tried / it all fell apart
  What it meant to me / will eventually / be a memory / of a time when I

  I put my trust in you
  Pushed as far as I can go
  And for all this
  There's only one thing you should know...

• 2. Papercut (Live at DocklandS Arena, London)

  Why does it feel like night today?
  Something in here's not right today
  Why am I so uptight today?
  Paranoia's all I got left
  I don't know what stressed me first
  Or how the pressure was fed / but
  I know just what it feels like
  To have a voice in the back of my head
  It's like a face that I hold inside
  A face that awakes when I close my eyes
  A face watches every time I lie
  A face that laughs every time I fall
  [And watches everything]
  So I know that when it's time to sink or swim
  That the face inside is hearing me / right underneath my skin

  It's like I'm / paranoid lookin' over my back
  It's like a / whirlwind inside of my head
  It's like I / can't stop what I'm hearing within
  It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

  I know I've got a face in me
  Points out all my mistakes to me
  You've got a face on the inside too and
  Your paranoia's probably worse
  I don't know what set me off first but I know what I can't stand
  Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is
  I can't add up to what you can
  But everybody has a face that they hold inside
  A face that awakes when they close their eyes
  A face watches every time they lie
  A face that laughs every time they fall
  [And watches everything]
  So you know that when it's time to sink or swim
  That the face inside is watching you too / right inside your skin

  The sun goes down
  I feel the light betray me

• 3. Points of Authority (Live at DocklandS Arena, London)

  Forfeit the game / Before somebody else
  Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame
  Cover up your face / You can't run the race
  The pace is too fast / You just won't last

  You love the way I look at you
  While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through
  You take away if I give in
  My life
  My pride is broken

  You love the things I say I'll do -
  The way I'll hurt myself again just to get back at you
  You take away when I give in
  My life
  My pride is broken

  Chorus:
  You like to think you're never wrong
  You want to act like you're someone
  You want someone to hurt like you
  You want to share what you've been through
  (You live what you learn)

• 4. Place for My Head (Live at DocklandS Arena, London)

  I watch how the
  Moon sits in the sky / in the dark night
  Shining with the light from the sun
  The sun doesn't give life to the moon assuming
  The moon's gonna owe it one
  It makes me think of how you act to me / you do
  Favors and then rapidly / you just
  Turn around and start asking me / about
  Things that you want back from me
  I'm 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

  I want to be in another place
  I hate when you say you don't understand
  [You'll see it's not meant to be]
  I want to be in the energy, not with the enemy
  A place for my head

  Maybe someday I'll be just like you / and
  Step on people like you do and
  Run away the people I thought I knew
  I remember back then who you were
  You used to be calm / used to be strong
  Used to be generous / but you should've known
  That you'd
  Wear out your welcome / now you see
  How quiet it is / all alone / I'm soSick 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

  You try to take the best of me
  Go away

• 5. Step Up

  Yo
  Watch as the room rocks
  Mentally moon walk
  Mixed media slang
  Banging in your boom box
  Verbal violence
  Lyrical stylist
  In a time when rock hip hop rhymes are childish
  You can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty
  Rapping to a beat doesn't make you an emcee
  With your lack of skill and facility
  You're killing me
  And a DJ in the group just for credibility
  I heard that some of you are getting help with your rhymes
  You're not an emcee if someone else writes your lines
  Rapping over rock doesn't make you a pioneer
  Cause rock and hip hop have collaborated for years
  But now they're getting randomly mixed and matched up
  All after a fast buck and all the tracks suck
  So how does it stack up
  None of it's real
  You want to be an emcee you've got to study the skill

  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Bring it to you every time like this
  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Step, step up, step, step up

  So you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity
  But mentally you don't have the hip hop energy
  With a tendency to make up stories
  Sounding like the only hip hop you've heard is top 40 (top 40)
  And your record company is completely missing it
  All the kids are dissing it for not being legitimate
  So in a battle you can't hack it
  React with whack shit
  And get smacked with verbal back flips
  Get your ass kicked by fabulous battle catalysts
  It's taken decades for emcees to establish this
  You're new to hip hop and welcome if your serious
  But not on the mic
  Leave that to the experienced

  Using the waves of sound the true master
  Paralyzes his opponents, leaving him vulnerable to attack

  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Bring it to you every time like this
  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Step, step up, step, step up

  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Bring it to you every time like this
  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Step, step up, step, step up, step up

  After years of pain staking research by the world's
  Leading sound scientists, we here at the sound
  Institute have invented a reliable audio weapons system.
  Actual movement of musical sound in space used to
  Carefully attack and neutralize the cellular structure of
  The human body, so the question must be asked.

  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Bring it to you every time like this
  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Step, step up ,step, step up

  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Bring it to you every time like this
  Who can rock a rhyme like this
  Step, step up, step, step up, Step up!

  Mixed media
  Mixed media
  Mixed media
  Step up to the microphone
  And you do it like this
  And you do it like this
  Step up to the mircophone
  Mixed media
  And you do it like this
  Mixed media
  Step up to the mircophone
  And you do it like this
  Mixed media
  Step up to the mircophone
  And you do it like this...

• 6. My December

  This is my December
  This is my time of the year
  This is my December
  This is all so clear
  This is my December
  This is my snow covered home
  This is my December
  This is me alone

  And I,
  Just wish that I didn't feel
  Like there was something I missed
  And I,
  Take back all the things I said
  To make you feel like that
  And I,
  Just wish that I didn't feel
  Like there was something I missed
  And I,
  Take back all the things that I said to you

  And I'd give it all away
  Just to have somewhere to go to
  Give it all away
  To have someone to come home to

  This is my December
  These are my snow covered trees
  This is me pretending
  This is all I need

  And I,
  Just wish that I didn't feel
  Like there was something I missed
  And I,
  Take back all the things I said
  To make you feel like that
  And I,
  Just wish that I didn't feel
  Like there was something I missed
  And I,
  Take back all the things that I said to you

  And I'd give it all away
  Just to have somewhere to go to
  Give it all away
  To have someone to come home to

  This is my December
  This is my time of the year
  This is my December
  This is all so clear

  Give it all away
  Just to have somewhere to go to
  Give it all away
  To have someone to come home to

  Give it all away
  Just to have somewhere to go to
  Give it all away
  To have someone to come home to

• 7. High Voltage

  You know what I mean, you could probably leave all the lights down. You know what i mean?

  Just do something to tell you who I am, ya know?

  I've been digging into crates ever since I was living in space
  Before the rat race, before monkeys had human traits
  Mastered numerology and big bang theology
  Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology
  Invented the mic so I could start blessing it
  And chin checking kids to make my point like an impressionist
  Many men have tried to shake us
  But I twist mic cords to double helixes and show them what
  I'm made of
  I buckle knees like leg braces
  Cast the spell of instrumentalness and all of the emcees
  That hate us
  So try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on
  From now to infinity let icons be bygones
  I fire bomb, ghostly notes haunt this
  I've tried threats but moved on to a promise
  I stomp shit with or without an accomplice
  And run the guantlet with whoever that wants this

  High voltage (The unforgettable sound)
  High voltage (bringing you up and taking you down)
  High voltage (Coming at you from memory side)
  High voltage (making the rythm of rhyme collide)

  Akira
  Put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones
  And never satisfy my rhyme jones
  Spraying bright day over what you might say
  Blood type Krylon
  Technicolor type A
  On highways write with road rage on pages of wind
  In cages of tin that bounce all around
  In surround sound devouring the scene
  Subliminal gangrene paintings
  Overall the same things sing song karaoke copy bullshit
  Break bones verbally with sticks and stone tactics
  Fourth dimension, combat convention
  Write rhymes at ease while the tracks stand at attention
  Meant to put you away with the pencil
  Pistol, official, 16 line rhyme missile
  While you risk your all, I pick out all your flaws
  Spin, raw raw blah blah
  You can say you saw

  High voltage (The unforgettable sound)
  High voltage (bringing you up and taking you down)
  High voltage (Coming at you from memory side)
  High voltage (making the rythm of rhyme collide)

  High voltage (The unforgettable sound)
  High voltage (bringing you up and taking you down)
  High voltage (Coming at you from memory side)
  High voltage (making the rythm of rhyme collide)

  This production has been brought to you courtesy of
  Mixed Media
  Akira
  Mr. Hahn
  And
  Hybrid Theory...