Linkin Park Lyrics

5/24/2018 Linkin Park Lyrics

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Waiting For The End[Mike:]

Yeah!

Yo!

This is not the end, this is not the beginning

Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision

But you listen to the tone and the violent

rhythm

And though the words sound steady

something empty's within themWe 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 the fear

Until we get it, forget it, let it all disappear

[Chester:]

Waiting for the end to come

Wishing I had strength to stand

This is not what I had planned

It's out of my control

Flying at the speed of light

Thoughts were spinning in my head

So many things were left unsaid

It's hard to let you go

(Oh) I know what it takes to move on

(Oh) I know how it feels to lie

(Oh) All I want to do

Is trade this life for something new

Holding on to what I haven't got

Sitting in an empty room

Trying to forget the past

This was never meant to last

I wish it wasn't so

(Oh) I know what it takes to move on(Oh) I know how it feels to lie

(Oh) All I want to do



(Yeah, yeah!)

[Mike:]

What was left when that fire was gone?

I thought it felt right but that right was

wrong

All caught up in the eye of the storm

And trying to figure out what it's like

moving onAnd I don't even know what kind of things I

said

My mouth kept moving and my mind went

dead

So I'm picking up the pieces, now where to

begin

The hardest part of ending is starting again

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

[Chester ('til end):]

All I want to do



I'm holding on to what I haven't got

I'm holding on to what I haven't got

[Mike:]

This is not the end, this is not the beginning

Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision

(I'm holding on to what I haven't got) But

you listen to the tone and the violent

rhythm

Though the words sound steady somethingempty's within them

We say yeah with fists flying up in the air

Like we're holding onto something that's

invisible there

(Holding on to what I haven't got) 'Cause

we're living at the mercy of the pain and the

fear

Until we get it, forget it, let it all disappear

In My RemainsSeparate

Sifting through the wreckage

I can't concentrate

Searching for a message

In the fear and pain

Broken down and waiting

For the chance to feel alive

Now in my remains

Are promises that never came

Set the silence free

To wash away the worst of me

Come apart

Falling in the cracks

Of every broken heart

Digging through the wreckageOf your disregard

Sinking down and waiting

For the chance to feel alive

Now in my remains




Like an army, falling

One by one by one


One by one by one

Like an army, fallingOne by one by one


One by one by one

Now in my remains





One by one by one


One by one by one

Burn It DownThe cycle repeated

As explosions broke in the sky

All that I needed

Was the one thing I couldn't find

And you were there at the turn

Waiting to let me know

[Chorus:]

We're building it up

To break it back down


To burn it down

We can't wait

To burn it to the ground

The colors conflicted

As the flames climbed into the clouds.

I wanted to fix this

But couldn't stop from tearing it down.


Caught in the burning glow

And I was there at the turn

Waiting to let you know

[Chorus:]




To burn it down

We can't wait


You told me, "Yes"

You held me highAnd I believed when you told that lie

I played soldier, you played king

And struck me down, when I kissed that

ring

You lost that right, to hold that crown

I built you up, but you let me down

So when you fall, I'll take my turn

And fan the flames

As your blazes burn


Waiting to let me know

[Chorus:]We're building it up



To burn it down

We can't wait


When you fall, I'll take my turn

And fan the flames

As your blazes burn

We can't wait



2/6

When you fall, I'll take my turn

And fan the flames

As your blazes burn

We can't wait


I'll Be GoneLike shining oil, this night is dripping down

Stars are slipping down, glistening

And I'm trying not to think what I'm leaving

now

No deceiving now, it's time you let me

know.

Let me know

[Chorus:]

When the lights go out and we open our

eyes,

Out there in the silence, I'll be gone, I'll be

gone.

Let the sun fade out and another one rise

Climbing through tomorrow, I'll be gone, I'll

be gone.

This air between us is getting thinner now

Into winter now. Bitter sweet

And 'cross that horizon this sun is setting

down

You're forgetting now, it's time you let me

go, let me go

[Chorus:]


eyes,

Out there in the silence, I'll be gone, I'll be

gone.Let the sun fade out and another one rise


be gone.

[Bridge:]

And tell them I couldn't tell myself

And tell them I was alone

Oh, tell me I am the only one

And there's nothing that can stop me.

[Chorus:]


eyes,

Out there in the silence, I'll be gone, I'll begone.

Let the sun fade out and another one rise


be gone, I'll be gone.

Castle Of Glass

Take me down to the river bend

Take me down to the fighting end

Wash the poison from off my skin

Show me how to be whole again

Fly me up on a silver wing

Past the black where the sirens sing

Warm me up in a nova's glow

And drop me down to the dream below

'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glassHardly anything there for you to see

For you to see

Bring me home in a blinding dream,

Through the secrets that I have seen

Wash the sorrow from off my skin

And show me how to be whole again

'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass

Hardly anything there for you to see

For you to see


Hardly anything else I need to be


Hardly anything there for you to see

For you to see

For you to see

Leave Out All The RestI dreamed I was missing

You were so scared

But no one would listen

'Cause no one else cared

After my dreamingI 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 emptyKeep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest


Don't be afraid

I've taken my beating

I've shared what I've 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




Don't resent me

And when you're feeling empty

Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the restLeave 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

[Chorus]

When my time comes




Don't resent me

And when you're feeling empty

Keep me in your memory



Forgetting all the hurt inside

You've learned to hide so well

Pretending someone else can come

And save me from myself



Bleed It OutYeah 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 somewhe

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


3/6







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

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 deeperJust to throw it away



I bleed it out

I bleed it out

I bleed it out

Lost In The Echo(yeah) (yo)

You were that foundation

Never gonna be another one, no.

I followed, so taken

So conditioned I could never let go

Then sorrow, then sickness

Then the shock when you flip it on me

So hollow, so vicious

So afraid I couldn't let myself see

That I could never be held

Back or up no, I'll hold myself

Check the rep, yep you know mine well

Forget the rest let them know my hell

There and back yet my soul ain't sell

Kept respect up,the best they fell,

Let the rest be the tale they tell

That I was there saying

[Chorus]

[Chester:]

And these promises broken

Deep below

Each word gets lost in the echo

So one last lie I can see through

This time I finally let you

Go, go, go.

Test my will, test my heart

Let me tell you how the odds gonna stack

up

Y'all go hard, I go smartHow's that working out for y'all in the back,

huh?

I've seen that frustration

Been crossed and lost and told "No"

And I've come back unshaken

Let down and lived and let go

So you can let it be known

I don't hold back, I hold my own

I can't be mapped, I can't be cloned

I can't C-flat, it ain't my tone

I can't fall back, I came too far

Hold myself up and love my scars

Let the bells ring wherever they are

'Cause I was there saying...

[Chorus]

[Chester:]


Deep below



This time I finally let you go!!!

Go, go, go.

No, you can tell 'em all now

I don't back up, I don't back down

I don't fold up, and I don't bow

I don't roll over, don't know how

I don't care where the enemies are

Can't be stopped, all I know; go hard

Won't forget how I got this far

For every time saying

[Chorus]

[Chester:]


Deep below



This time I finally let you

Go, go, go. (Go, go, go)

Go. go, go. (Go, go, go)

Lies Greed Misery[Verse 1]

I'mma be that nail in your coffin

Sayin' that I softened

I was duckin' down to reload

So you can save your petty explanations

I don't have the patience

Before you even say it I knowYou let your pride or your ego

Talk slick to me, no

That is not the way I get down

And look at how you lose your compos

Now let me show you

Exactly how the breaking point sounds

[Chorus]

I wanna see you choke on your lies

Swallow up your greed

Suffer all alone in your misery

Choke on your lies



[Verse 2]

What is it you want me to tell you

I am not the failure

I would rather live and let be

But you came with the right kind of thre

to

Push me to let you

No you can't intimidate me

You disrespect me so clearly

Now you better hear me

That is not the way it goes down

You did it to yourself and it's over


4/6

Now let me show you

Exactly how the breaking point sounds

[Chorus]




Choke on your lies



I wanna see you choke on your liesSwallow up your greed


Choke on your lies



[Bridge]

You did it to yourself [x8]

[Chorus]




Choke on your lies



Victimized[Shinoda:]

No regret for the confidence betrayed

No more hiding in shadow

'Cause I won't wait for the debt to be repaid

Time has come for you

[Chester:]

[Chorus]

Victimized, victimized, never againvictimized [x2]

[Shinoda:]

They're acting like they want a riot, it's a riot

I'll give them

As the sound climbs higher on this violent

rhythm

For you snakes in the grass, supplying the

venom

I ain't scared of your teeth, I admire what's

in em

Keep 'em waiting in the shadows there,

thinking they hidden

But the truth is you don't have the stomachto get em

Go on already, hit em! Yeah, you gotta be

kiddin'

Wanna talk about a victim, Imma put you

there with 'em!

[Chester:]

[Chorus]

Victimized, victimized, never again

victimized [x2]

(Raaah!)

Skin To BoneSkin to bone, steel to rust

Ash to ashes dust to dust

Let tomorrow have its way

With the promises we made

Skin to bone, steel to rust.

Ash to ashes, dust to dust

Your deception, my disgust

When your name is finally drawn,I'll be happy that you're gone

Ash to ashes, dust to dust.

[Chorus:]

(aaah) ash to ashes, dust to dust

(aaah) skin to bone and steel to rust

Right to left, left to right

Night to day and day to night

As the starlight fades to gray,

I'll be marching far away

Right to left and left to right

[Chorus:]

(aaah) ash to ashes, dust to dust

(aaah) skin to bone and steel to rust

Let tomorrow have its way?

With the promises betrayed?

Skin to bone and steel to rust [x3]

Until It BreaksIt goes a one

Two, three

I was born with the hunger of a lion, the

strength of a Sun

I don't need to sweat it when a competition

come

Original style, like an 808 drum

So I don't run the track, no, I make the track

run

My momma taught me words, my daddy

built rockets

I hold 'em both together now, tell me what I

got

It's a pretty smart weapon, I can shoot it, I

can drop it

But learn to respect it 'cause you clearly

can't stop it

Like that

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 as for me I do it like I got nothing to

lose

And you can run your mouth like you co

try to fill my shoes

But steady little soldier, I ain't standing

to you

I'll be laying on the ground before you'r

even in my view

Like that

Give me the strength of the rising Sun

Give me the truth of the words unsung

And when the last bells ring, the poor msing

"Bring me to kingdom come"

It's something for your people on the bl

to

Blackout and rock to, give you what you

need

Like Papa, who shot you

Separate the weak from the obsolete

The meek, I creep hard on impostors

And switch styles on the dime, quick-wi

y'all

Quit tripping, I don't have time for your

crying

I grind tough, sucker, make your mind u

Are you in the firing squad or are you in

line-up?

Bang, bang, little monkey man playing

With the big guns only get you slayed

I ain't playing, I'm just saying

You ain't got a sliver of a chance

I get iller, I deliver while you quiver in yo

pants

So shake, shake down, Money, here's th

break down

You can play the bank, Imma play the b

take down

And no mistakes now I'm coming to get

youI'm just a Banksy, you're a Brainwash, ge

the picture?

It's like that

We swim against the rising waves

And crash against the shore

The body bends until it breaks

The early morning sings no more

So rest your head

It's time to sleep

And dream of what's in store

The body bends until it breaks

And sings again no more'cause time has torn the flesh away

The early morning sings no more

PowerlessYou hid your skeletons when I had show

you mine

You walk the devil that I thought you'd

behind

I saw the evidence, the crimson soaking

through

Ten thousand promises, ten thousand w


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to lose

[Chorus:]

And you held it all but you were careless to

let it fall

You held it all and I was by your side,

powerless

I watched you fall apart and chased you to

the end.

I'm left with emptiness that words cannotdefend

You'll never know what I became because

of you

Ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways

to lose

[Chorus: x2]

And you held it all but you were careless to

let it fall

You held it all and I was by your side,

powerless

Powerless [x2]

Roads UntraveledWeep not for roads untraveled

Weep not for paths left alone

'Cause beyond every bend

Is a long blinding end

It's the worst kind of pain

I've known

Give up your heart left broken

And let that mistake pass on

'Cause the love that you lost

Wasn't worth what it cost

And in time you'll be glad it's gone

Woah-oo-oh-oh

Woah-oo-ohh

Woah-oo-oh-oh

Woah-oo-ohh

Weep not for roads untraveled

Weep not for sights unseen

May your love never end

And if you need a friend

There's a seat here alongside me

Woah-oo-oh-oh

Woah-oo-ohhWoah-oo-oh-oh

Woah-oo-ohh

Blackout[C. Bennington:]

I'm stuck in this bed you made,

Alone with a sinking feeling.

I saw through the words you said,

To the secrets you've been keeping.

It's written upon your face,

All the lies how they cut so deeply.

You can't get enough you take,

And take and take and never say.

No / you've gotta get it inside

You push it back down / You push it back

down

No / you'll never get it inside

Push it back down / Black out / Blood in

your eye

You say that it's not your fault,

And swear that I am mistaken.

You said it's not what it seems,

No remorse for the trust you're breaking.

You run but then back you fall,

Suffocate in the mess you're making.

You can't get enough you take,

And take and take and take and take,

Fuck it

Are you listening?



down


Push it back down / You push it back down



down


Push it back down / Black out / Blood in

your eye

[M. Shinoda:]

Floating down / as colors fill the light

We look up from the ground / in fields of

paperwhite

And floating up / you pass us in the nightA future gazing out / a past to overwrite

So come down / far below

We've been waiting to collect the things

you know

Come down / far below

We've been waiting to collect what you've

let go

[M. Shinoda and C. Bennington:]

Come down, oh.

Come down, oh.

Come down.

Come down, oh.

Come down, oh.

The Catalyst[x2:]

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!

And when I close my eyes tonight,

To symphonies of blinding light!


We're a broken people living under load

gun.

Oh!

Like memories in cold decay,

Transmissions echoing away,

Far from the world of you and I,

Where oceans bleed into the sky!

[x2:]

God save us everyone,

Will we burn inside the fires of a thousa

suns?

For the sins of our hands,

The sins of our tongues,

The sins of our fathers,

The sins of our young.

No!

And when I close my eyes tonight,

To symphonies of blinding light!

God save us everyone,

Will we burn inside the fires of a thousa

suns?

Ooh!




Where oceans bleed into the sky!

Oh!




Where oceans bleed into the sky.

[x10:]

Lift me up,

Let me go...



gun

And it can't be outfought,It can't be outdone,


It can't be outrun.

No!



gun.

And it can't be outfought,

It can't be outdone,


It can't be outrun.


6/6

When They Come For MeI am not a pattern to be followed

The pill that I'm on is a tough one to

swallow

I'm not a criminal, not a role model

Not a born leader, I'm a tough act to follow

I am not the fortune and the fame or the

same person telling you to forfeit the gameI came in the ring like a dog on a chain and

then found out the underbelly's sicker than

it seems

And it seems ugly but it can get worse

'cause even a blueprint is a gift and a curse

'cause once you got a theory of how the

thing works

Everybody wants the next thing to be just

like the first

And I'm not a robot, I'm not a monkey

I will not dance even if the beat's funky

Opposite of lazy, far from a punk

Ya'll oughta stop talking

Start trying to catch up mother fucker

And all the people say

Try to catch up mother fucker

Lauryn said money change the situation

Big said it increase the complication

Kane said don't step, I ain't the one

Chuck said an Uzi weighs a mother fucking

ton

And I'm just a student of the game that

they taught me

Rocking every stage and every place that

they brought me

I'm awfully underrated but came here to

correct itAnd so it ain't mistaken, I'mma say it for the

record

I am the opposite of wack, opposite of weak

Opposite of slack, synonym of heat,

synonym of crack

Closest to a peak, far from a punk

Ya'll oughta stop talking, start trying to

catch up mother fucker



When they come for me

Come for meI'll be gone [x3]



Wretches And Kings"Theres a time when the operation of the

machine becomes so odious, makes you so

sick at heart, that you cant take part; you

cant even passively take part, and youve

got to put your bodies upon the gears and

upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all

the apparatus, and youve got to make it

stop." (Mario Savio)

To save face / how low can you go

Talk a lot of game but yet you dont know

Static on the way / make us all say whoa

The people up top push the people down

lowGet down

And obey every word

Steady getting mine if you havent yet

heard

Wanna take what I got / dont be absurd

Dont fight the power / nobody gets hurt

If you havent heard yet then Im letting you

know

There aint shit we dont run when the guns

unload

And no one make a move unless my people

say so

Got everything outta control

Now everybody go

Steel unload / final blow

We the animals take control

Hear us now / clear and true

Wretches and kings we come for you

So keep pace / how slow can you go

Talk a lot of shit and yet you dont know

Fire on the way / make you all say whoa

The people up top and the people down

low

Get down

And Im running it like that

The front of the attack is exactly where Im

atSomewhere in between the kick and the hi

hat

The pen and the contract

The pitch and the contact

So get with the combat / Im letting em

know

There aint shit you can say to make me

back down no

So / push the button let the whole thing

blow

Spinning everything outta control

Now everybody go

Steel unload / final blowWe the animals take control

Hear us now / clear and true

Wretches and kings we come for you

Steel unload / fire blow

Filthy animals / beat them low

Skin and bone / black and blue

No more this sun shall beat onto you

From the front to the back and the side to

side

If you fear what I feel put em up real high

[x3]

"Theres a time when the operation of th

machine becomes so odious, makes you

sick at heart, that you cant take part; yo

cant even passively take part, and youv

got to put your bodies upon the gears a

upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon

the apparatus, and youve got to make i

stop. And youve got to indicate to the

people who run it, to the people who ow

it, that unless youre free, the machine wbe prevented from working at all."

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