Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory"
Papercut
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
propably 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
One Step Closer
i cannot take this anymore
i'm saying everything i've
said before
all these words they make no sense
i find bliss in
ignorance
less i hear the less you'll say
but you'll find that out
anyway
just like before...
everything you say to me
takes
me one step closer to the edge
and i'm about to break
i need a little room
to breathe
'cause i'm one step closer to the edge
and i'm about to
break
i find the answers aren't so clear
wish i could find a way to
disappear
all these thoughts they make no sense
i find bliss in
ignorance
nothing seems to go away
over and over again
shut up when
i'm talking to you
With You
i woke up in a dream today
to the cold of the
static/and put my cold feet on the floor
forgot all about
yesterday
remembering i'm pretending to be where i'm not anymore
a little
taste of hypocrisy
and i'm left in the wake of the mistake/slow to
react
even though you're so close to me
you're still so distant/and i
can't bring you back
it's true/the way i feel
was promised by your
face
the sound of your voice
painted on my memories
even if
you're not with me
i'm with you
you/now i see/keeping everything
inside
you/now i see/even when i close my eyes
i hit you and you hit
me back
we fall to the floor/the rest of the day stands still
fine line
between this and that
when things go wrong i pretend the past isn't
real
now i'm trapped in this memory
and i'm left in the wake of the
mistake/slow to react
even though you're so close to me
you're still so
distant/and i can't bring you back
no
no matter how far we've
come
i can't wait to see tomorrow
with you
Points Of Authority
forfet 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)
Crawling
crawling in my skin
consuming all i feel
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 and i'm convinced
that
there's just too much pressure to take]
i've felt this way before
so
insecure
discomfort,endlessly has pulled itself upon
me
distracting/reacting
against my will i stand beside my own
reflection
it's haunting how i can't seem...
Runaway
graffiti decorations
underneath a sky of dust
a
constant wave of tension
on top of broken trust
the lessons that you
taught me
i learned were never true
now i find myself in
questions
[they point the finger at me again]
guilty by
association
[you point the finger at me again]
paper bags and angry
voices
under a sky of dust
another wave of tension
has more than filled
me up
all my talk of taking action
these words were never true
i
wanna run away
never say good-bye
i wanna know the truth
instead of
wondering why
i wanna know the answers
no more lies
i wanna shut
the door
and open up my mind
gonna run away
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 facade but then
i just end up getting hurt
again
by myself [myself]
i ask why,but in my mind
i find i can't rely
on myself
i can't hold on
[to what i want when i'm stretched so
thin]
it's all too much to take in
i can't hold on
[to anything
watching everything spin]
with thoughts of failure sinking in
if
i/turn my back i'm defenseless
and to go blindly seems senseless
if i hide
my pride and let it all go on/then they'll
take from me till everything is
gone
if i let them go i'll be outdone
but if i try to catch them i'll be
outrun
if i'm killed by the questions like a cancer
then i'll be buried in
the silence of the answer
[by myself]
how do you think/i've lost so
much
i'm so afraid/i'm out of touch
how do you expect/i will know what to
do
when all i know/is what you tell me too
don't you know
i can't
tell you how to make it go
no matter what i do,how hard i try
i can't seem
to convince myself why
i'm stuck on the outside
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 recognise me anymore
now 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...
A Place For My Head
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 when 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
so
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
you try to take the best of me
go away
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
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/an acidic
question
forcefully,the power of suggestion
then with the eyes tightly
shut/looking through the rust and rot
and dust/a spot of light floods the
floor
and pours over the rusted world of pretend
the eyes ease open and
it's dark again
in the memory you'll find me
eyes burning up
the
darkness holding me tightly
until the sun rises up
moving all
around/screaming of the ups and downs
pollution manifested in perpetual
sound
the wheels go 'round and the sunset creeps past the
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
now you got me caught in the act
you bring the thought
back
i'm telling you that
i see it right through you
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
why i never walked
away
why i played myself this way
now i see your testing me pushes me
away
i've tried/like you
to do everything you wanted to
this is/the
last time
i'll take the blame for the sake of being with you