Numb

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Numb

I’m tired of being what you want me to be,

feeling so faithless, lost under the surface.

I don’t know what you’re expecting of me,

put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.

Just caught in the undertow,

every step that I take is another mistake to you.

Just caught in the undertow,

Nobody’s Listening

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Nobody’s Listening

Peep the style and the kids checking for it,

The number one question is, how could you ignore it?

We drop right back in the cut over basement tracks

With raps that got you backing this up like rewind that.

We’re just rolling with the rhythm,

rise from the ashes of stylist division

With these nonstop lyrics of life living,

not to be forgotten but still unforgiven.

From The Inside

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : From The Inside

I don’t know who to trust, no surprise,

everyone feels so far away from me.

Heavy thoughts sift through dust and the lies.

Trying not to break, but I’m so tired of this deceit.

Every time I try to make myself get back up on my feet,

All I ever think about is this, all the tiring time between

And how trying to put my trust in you just takes so much out of me.

Breaking The Habit

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Breaking The Habit

Memories consume like opening the wound,

I’m picking me apart again.

You all assume I’m safe here in my room,

unless I try to start again.

I don’t want to be the one the battles always choose

Cause inside I realise that I’m the one confused.

Figure.09

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Figure.09

Nothing ever stops all these thoughts and the pain attached to them.

Sometimes I wonder why this is happening.

It’s like nothing I can do will distract me when

I think of how I shot myself in the back again,

Cause from the infinite words I could say I put all the pain you gave to me on display

You didn’t realise, instead of setting it free I took what I hated and made it a part of me.

It never goes away.

Faint

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Faint

I am a little bit of loneliness,

a little bit of disregard,

A handful of complaints,

but I can’t help the fact that everyone can see these scars.

I am what I want you to want,

what I want you to feel,

But it’s like no matter what I do,

I can’t convince you to just believe this is real.

Easier To Run

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Easier To Run

It’s easier to run,

replacing this pain with something numb.

It’s so much easier to go

than face all this pain here all alone.

Something has been taken from deep inside of me,

A secret I’ve kept locked away, no one can ever see.

Wounds so deep they never show, they never go away,

Like moving pictures in my head, for years and years they’ve played.

Hit The Floor

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Hit The Floor

There are just too many times that people have tried to look inside of me,

Wondering what I think of you, and I protect you out of courtesy.

Too many times that I’ve held on when I needed to push away,

Afraid to say what was on my mind, afraid to say what I need to say.

Too many things that you’ve said about me when I’m not around.

You think having the upper hand means you’ve got to keep putting me down,

But I’ve had too many standoffs with you, it’s about as much as I can stand,

So I’m waiting until the upper hand is mine.

Lying From You

Linkin Park

Album : Meteora

Title : Lying From You

When I pretend,

everything is what I want it to be,

I look exactly like what you had always wanted to see.

When I pretend,

I can forget about the criminal I am,

Stealing second after second just cause I know I can.

But I can’t pretend this is the way it’ll stay,

I’m just

trying to bend the truth.

I can’t pretend I’m who you want me to be,

so I’m

lying my way from you.

Cure For The Itch

Linkin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : Cure For The Itch

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Pushing Me Away

Linkin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : Pushing Me Away

I’ve lied to you

the same way that I always do.

This is the last smile

that I’ll fake for the sake of being with you.

Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually break down.

The sacrifice of hiding in a lie.

Everything has to end, you’ll soon find we’re out of time, left to watch it all unwind.

The sacrifice is never knowing.

Forgotten

Linkin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : 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’s there,

The memory won’t escape me, but why should I care?

There’s a place so dark you can’t see the end,

Skies cock back and shock that which can’t defend,

The rain then sends dripping acidic questions forcefully, the power of suggestion,

And then with the eyes shut looking through the rust and rotten dust,

A spot of light floods the floor and pours over the rusted world of pretend.

And the eyes ease open and it’s dark again.

A Place For My Head

Linkiin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : A Place For My Head

I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night,

shining with the light from the sun.

The sun doesn’t give light to the moon,

assuming the moon’s going to owe it one.

It makes me think of how you act to me,

you do favours and then rapidly

You just turn around and start asking me

In The End

Linkin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : 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.

By Myself

Linkin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : By Myself

What do I do to ignore them behind me?

Do I follow my instincts blindly?

Do I hide my pride from these bad dreams and give in to sad thoughts that are maddening?

Do I sit here and try to stand it, or do I try to catch them red handed?

Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness, or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness?

Because I can’t hold on when I’m stretched so thin,

I make the right moves, but I’m lost within.

I put on my daily façade, but then I just end up getting hurt again, by myself.

Runaway

Linkin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : Runaway

Graffiti decorations under a sky of dust,

A constant wave of tension on top of broken trust.

The lessons that you taught me, I learn were never true.

Now I find myself in question, they point the finger at me again.

Guilty by association, you point the finger at me again.

I want to run away, never say goodbye.

I want to know the truth instead of wondering why.

I want to know the answers, no more lies.

I want to shut the door and open up my mind.

Crawling

Linkin Park

Album : Hybird Theory

Title : Crawling

Crawling in my skin,

these wounds, they will not heal.

Fear is how I fall,

confusing what is real.

There’s something inside me that pulls beneath the surface,

consuming, confusing.

This lack of self control I fear is never ending,

controlling,

I can’t seem 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.

Papercut

Linkin Park

Album : Hybrid Theory

Title : Papercut

Why does it feel like night today? Something in here’s not right today.
Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia is 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.
Like a face that I hold inside, a face that awakes when I close my eyes,
A face that I watch 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.

The Messenger

Linkin Park

Album : A Thousand Suns

Title : The Messenger

When you feel you're alone,

cut off from this cruel world,

your instincts telling you to run,

Listen to your heart,

those angel voices,

they'll sing to you,

they'll be your guide back home.

When life leaves us blind,

love keeps us kind,

it keeps us kind.

When you suffered enough

and your spirit is breaking,

you're growing desperate from the fight.

Remember you're loved

and you always will be,

this melody will bring you right back home.

When life leaves us blind,

love keeps us kind.

Given Up

Linkin Park

Album : Minutes to Midnight

Title : Given Up

Wake in a sweat again,

another day's been laid to waste in my disgrace.

Stuck in my head again,

feels like I'll never leave this place,

there's no escape.