A fire needs a space to burn
A breath to build a glow
I′ve heard it said a thousand times
But now I know
That you don′t know what you′ve got
Oh you don′t know what you′ve got
No you don′t know what you′ve got
Until it′s gone
I thought I kept you safe and sound
I thought I made you strong
But something made me realize
That I was wrong
′Cause finding what you got sometimes
Is finding it alone
And I can finally see your light
When I let go
′Cause you don′t know what you′ve got
Until it′s gone
′Til it′s gone...
′Cause you don′t know what you′ve got
Oh you don′t know what you′ve got
No you don′t know what you′ve got
It′s your battle to be fought
No you don′t know what you′ve got
′Til it′s gone
Uh, uh, Jigga What?
Uh, uh, Jigga Who?
Uh, uh, Jigga What?
Uh, uh, Jigga Who?
Uh, uh, Jigga What?
You gonna need a vocal here right?
Motherfuckers wanna act loco, hit ’em wit’ numerous
shots with the fo’-fo’
Faggots runnin’ to the Po-Po’s, smoke ’em like cocoa
Fuck rap, coke by the boatload
Fuck dat, on the run-by, gun high, one eye closed
Left holes through some guy clothes
Stop your bullshittin’, glock with the full clip
Motherfuckers better duck when the fool spit
One shot could make a nigga do a full flip
See the nigga layin’ shocked when the bullet hit
And hey ma, how you, know nigga’z wanna buy you
But see me I wanna fuck for free, like Akinyele
Take this ride ’til you feel it inside ya belly
If it’s tight get the K-Y Jelly
All night get you wide up inside the telly
Side to side, ’til you say Jay-Z you’re too much for me
I am
A little bit of loneliness a little bit of disregard
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
And it’s like no matter what I do I can’t convince you
To just believe this is real
So I
Let go watching you turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I’m not
I’ll be here ’cause your all that I’ve got
Got a condo with nuttin’ but condoms in it
The same place where the rhymes is invented
So all I do is rap and sex, imagine how I stroke
See how I was flowin’ on my last cassette?
Rapid-fire like I’m blastin a tec, never jam though
Never get high, never run out of ammo
Nigga’s hatin’ ’n’ shit cause I slayed your bitch
You know your favorite, I know it made you sick
And now you’re, actin’ raw but you never had war
Don’t know how to carry your hoe, wanna marry your hoe
Now she’s mad at me, cause your majesty, just happened to be
A pimp what a tragedy
She wanted, us to end, cause I fucked her friend
She gave me one more chance and I fucked her again
I seen her tears as she busted in, I said
Shit there’s a draft, shut the door bitch and come on in!
I am
A little bit insecure a little unconfident
’Cause you don’t understand I do what I can
But sometimes I don’t make sense
I am
What you never wanna say but I’ve never had a doubt
It’s like no matter what I do I can’t convince you
For once just to hear me out
So I
Let go watching you turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I’m not
But I’ll be here ’cause you’re all that I’ve got
I can’t feel the way I did before
Don’t turn your back on me
I won’t be ignored
Time won’t heal this damage anymore
Don’t turn your back on me
I won’t be ignored
Now
Hear me out now
You’re gonna listen to me, like it or not
Right now
Hear me out now
You’re gonna listen to me, like it or not
Right now
I can’t feel the way I did before
Don’t turn your back on me
I won’t be ignored
I can’t feel the way I did before
Don’t turn your back on me
I won’t be ignored
Time won’t heal this damage anymore
Don’t turn your back on me
I won’t be ignored
I can’t feel
Don’t turn your back on me
I won’t be ignored
Time won’t heal
Don’t turn your back on me
I won’t be ignored
(feat. J. Abraham, M. Shinoda, S. Carpenter)
Myself
Myself
What do I do to ingore 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 lonliness?
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
Myself
I ask why
But in my mind I find
I can’t rely on myself
I can’t look around
It’s too much to take in
I can’t hold back
When I’m stretched so thin
I can’t slow down
Watching everything spin
I can’t look back
Starting over again
If I turn my back I’m defenceless
And to go blindly seems senceless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they’ll take from me ’til 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
Myself
I ask why
But in my mind I find
I can’t rely on myself
Myself
I ask why
But in my mind I find
I can’t rely on myself
I can’t look around
It’s too much to take in
I can’t hold back
When I’m stretched so thin
I can’t slow down
Watching everything spin
I can’t look back
Starting over again
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
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
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
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
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
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
"Theres a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart,
that you can′t 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 aparatus and youve got to make it
stop!"
To Save Face, How Low can can you go?
Talk alot of game, but yet you dont know
Static on the way, make us all say, Woah!
The people up top push the people down low
Get down, and obey every word,
Steady get in line 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 lettin you know
There aint shit we dont run when the guns unload
And no-one make a move, less my people say so
Got everything out of control, now everybody go!
Steel and bone, 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 alot of shit and yet you dont know
Fire on the way, make you all say Woah!
The people up top and the people down low
Get down, and Im runnin it like that
The fun of the attack is exactly where Im at
Somewhere between the kick and the hi-hat
The pen and the contract, the pitch and the contact
So get with the combat, Im lettin ′em know
There aint shit you can say to make me backdown, NO!
So, push the button, let the whole thing go,
Spinning the whole thing out of control now everybody Go
Steel and bone, final blow
We the animals take control
Hear us now, clear and true
Wretches and Kings, we come for you!
Steel and bone, fire blow
Filthy Animals, beat them low
Skin and bone, black and blue
None of the sun shall beat unto you! (Sketch on this line lol)
From the front to the back and the side to side,
If you feel what I feel put ′em up real high!
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey!
"...when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you
can′t 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 aparatus and youve got to make it stop! And
you′ve got to indicate to the people that run it, to the people that own it, that unless you′re
free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!!"
Like shining oil
This night is dripping down
Stars are slipping down, glistening
When I′m trying not to think what I am leaving now
And no deceiving now, it′s time you let me know
Let me know
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 die out
And another one rise
Climbing through tomorrow
I′ll be gone, I′ll be gone
The Sun between us is getting thinner now
Into winter now, bitter sweet
And crossed out her eyes, the Sun is setting down
You′re forgetting now, it′s time to let me go
Let me go
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 die out
And another one rise
Climbing through tomorrow
I′ll be gone, I′ll be gone
And tell them I
Couldn′t help myself
And tell them I
Was alone, oh
Tell me I am the only one
And there′s nothing left to stop me
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 die out
And another one rise
Climbing through tomorrow
I′ll be gone, I′ll be gone
I′ll be gone
I knew I was being threatened
Do you think it’s worth holding out?
I mean I’ve heard some pretty ugly things about those guys
Ugly stories
Watch them flee
Watch them flee
Rap up
Watch them flee
Hip-Hop hits
And you do it like this
It’s going down
The rhythm projects ‘round the next sound
Reflects the complex hybrid dialect now
Detect the mesh of many elements compressed down
The melting pot of a super-futureesque style
The combination of a vocal caress
With lungs that gasp for breath
From emotional stress
With special effects
And a distorted collage
Carefully lodged between beats of rhythmic barrage
It’s going down
The logical progression on a the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey
Now it’s going down
A logical progression on the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take u on a an audible odyssey
Now it’s going down
Put put put it up
It said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It’s going down
Put put it up
It said it go- go- goes like this
And you do it like this
Its going down
Once again it is
Composed sentences all together venomous
The four elements of natural force
Projected daily through the sound of the source
Everybody on board with this blend
The sword with the pen
The mightiest is the weapons
Swinging right from the chin
The elevate of mental states
Long gone with the wind
To defend men for shoddy imitation pretends
It’s going down
Stalence emulation readily
Trekking through the weaponry
Of the pure pedigree
Cleverly seeing through whatever is ahead of me
Whatever the weather be
We invent the steadily
It’s going down to sub-terrestrial high
I rhyme regiment that’s calling the shots
Execution of collaborative plots
Ready to bring the separation of style to a stop
It’s going down
A logical progression on a the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey
Now, it’s going down
Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree (It′s going down)
Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate (It′s going down)
Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree (It′s going down)
Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate (It′s going down)
It’s going down
X-men ‘bout to blast of world wide
X- men ‘bout to blast of world wide
And you do it like this
‘Bout to blast off world wide
And you do it like this
Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree (It′s going down)
Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate (It′s going down)
Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree (It′s going down)
Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate (It′s going down)
It’s going down
Put put put it up
It said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It’s going down
Put put it up
It said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It’s going down
Like this
Like this
Like this
Like this
Like this
Like this
[Verse 1]
I′ma be that nail in your coffin
Sayin′ that I soften
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 know
You let your pride and your ego
Talk slick to me no
That is not the way I get down
And look at how you lose your composure
Now let me show ya/Exactly how the breaking point sound
[Chorus]
I wanna see you choke on your lies
Swallow up your pride
Suffer all alone in your misery
Choke on your lies
Swallow up your pride
Suffer all alone in your misery
[Verse 2]
What is it you want me to tell ya?
I am not the failure
I would rather live and let be
But you can′t make the right kinda threat to
Push me to let you/No you can′t intimidate me
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
Now let me show ya/Exactly how the breaking point sound
[Chorus] x2
I wanna see you choke on your lies
Swallow up your pride
Suffer all alone in your misery
Choke on your lies
Swallow up your pride
Suffer all alone in your misery
[Bridge]
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself!
You did it to yourself!
You did it to yourself!
You did it to yourself!
[Chorus]
I wanna see you choke on your lies
Swallow up your pride
Suffer all alone in your misery
Choke on your lies
Swallow up your pride
Suffer all alone in your misery
My insides all turned to ash / So slow
And blew away as I collapsed / So cold
A black wind took them away / From sight
And now the darkness over day / that night
And the clouds above move closer
looking so dissatisfied
but the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing
I used to be my own protection / But not now
Cause my path had lost direction / Somehow
A black wind took you away / From sight
And now the darkness over day / That night
And the clouds above more closer
looking so dissatisfied
and the ground below grew colder
as they put you down inside
but the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing
So now you′re gone
And I was wrong
I never knew what it was like
To be alone
On a Valentine′s Day
On a Valentine′s Day
On a Valentine′s Day
On a Valentine′s Day
On a Valentine′s Day
I used to be my own protection
On a Valentine′s Day
/ But not now
On a Valentine′s Day
Cause my mind has lost direction
On a Valentine′s Day
/ somehow
On a Valentine′s Day
I used to be my own protection
On a Valentine′s Day
/ But not now
On a Valentine′s Day
Cause my mind has lost direction
On a Valentine′s Day
/ somehow
Yo, peep the style and the kids checking for it
The number one question is how could you ignore it
And drop right back in the cut over basement tracks
Rap stack got you back in the sub black
Rewind that we just rolling with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylist division
With these non-stop lyrics of life living
Not to be forgotten but still unforgiving
But in the meantime there are those who wanna talk this and that
So I suppose that it gets to a point where feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt it goes
[Chorus]
(Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me)
Told you everything loud and clear
(But nobody′s listening)
(Called to you so clearly but you don′t want to hear me)
Told you everything loud and clear
(But nobody′s listening)
I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
Head full of anger, held in my chest
And everything left′s a waste of time
I hate my rhymes, but hate everyone else′s more
I′m riding on the back of this pressure
Guessing that it′s better I can′t keep myself together
Because all of this stress gave me something to write on
The pain gave me something I could set my sights on
Never forget the blood sweat and tears
The uphill struggle over years the fear and
Trash talking and the people it was to
And the people that started it just like you
[Chorus]
(Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me)
Told you everything loud and clear
(But nobody′s listening)
(Called to you so clearly but you don′t want to hear me)
Told you everything loud and clear
(But nobody′s listening)
I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
Head full of anger, held in my chest
Uphill struggle
Blood sweat n tears
Nothing to gain
Everything to fear
Heart full of pain, head full of stress
Head full of anger, held in my chest
Uphill struggle
Blood sweat n tears
Nothing to gain
Everything to fear
Heart full of pain
[Chorus]
(Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me)
Told you everything loud and clear
(But nobody′s listening)
(Called to you so clearly but you don′t want to hear me)
Told you everything loud and clear
(But nobody′s listening)
I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
(Nobody′s listening)
Head full of anger, held in my chest
(Nobody′s listening)
Uphill struggle
Blood sweat n tears
(Nobody′s listening)
Nothing to gain
Everything to fear
(Nobody′s listening)
Scratching Conclusion (Cu-coming at you from every side)
Sometimes I
need to remember just to breathe
Sometimes I
need you to STAY AWAY FROM ME
Sometimes I′m
in disbelief i didn′t know
Somehow I
need you to go
--Chorus--
Don′t Stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
(Just give me myself back and)
Don′t Stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
(Just give me myself back and)
Don′t Stay
Sometimes I
feel like I trusted you too well
Sometimes I
just feel like SCREAMING AT MYSELF
Sometimes I′m
in disbelief I didn′t know
Somehow I
need to be alone
--Chorus--
Don′t Stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
(Just give me myself back and)
Don′t Stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
(Just give me myself back and)
Don′t Stay
I dont need you
anymore
I dont want to be ignored
I dont need one
more day
of you wasting me away
I dont need you
anymore
I dont want to be ignored
I dont need one
more day
of you wasting me away...
(With no apologies)
--Chorus--
Don′t stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
(Just give me myself back and)
Don′t Stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
(Just give me myself back and)
Don′t stay
Don′t stay
Don′t stay
In this farewell,
There’s no blood,
There’s no alibi.
‘Cause I’ve drawn regret,
From the truth,
Of a thousand lies.
So let mercy come,
And wash away…
What I’ve Done.
I’ll face myself,
To cross out what I’ve become.
Erase myself,
And let go of what I’ve done.
Put to rest,
What you thought of me.
While I clean this slate,
With the hands,
Of uncertainty.
So let mercy come,
And wash away…
What I’ve Done.
I’ll face myself,
To cross out what I’ve become.
Erase myself,
And let go of what I’ve done.
For What I’ve Done
I′ll start again,
And whatever pain may come.
Today this ends,
I’m forgiving what I’ve done.
I’ll face myself,
To cross out what I’ve become.
Erase myself,
And let go of what I’ve done.
What I’ve done.
Forgiving What I’ve Done.
God save us everyone
will be burn
inside the fires of a thousand suns
for the sins of hand
sins of our tongue
sins of our father
sins of our young
God save us everyone
will be burn
inside the fires of a thousand suns
for the sins of hand
sins of our tongue
sins of our father
sins of our young
(feat. Black Thought)
From the top
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up when I’m talking to you
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
I’m about to br—
Wasn’t that fun?
Let’s try something else
Forty-five caliber killa
but out of the philla-dela-realla
show yall brothas how you not a guerilla
Smooth talking, fully automatic weapon concealer
Taste thriller, break thriller
Let’s hit ’em with the bounce filler
Filthy stinking, standing on solid ground
And still be sinking, submerging in the parks
Still be linking, plucked beef when it starts
To fuck your thinking, it’s not a mirage
I’m in the motherfucking tractor, yo, from out the garage
With an if, you to duck, but it’s hard to dodge
In the back of the spine where my dawgs, they lie
Going to flip it straight up, ripping apart your squad
X-ecutioner style, cuts and blends like a syringe
Hanging you from each of your limbs
See me coming through the party hard without no bodyguard
Smoking something, stomping on each of you Tims
I’m the B-to-the-L, the A, the C, K
And when it comes to planning
The thought to keep thinking, man
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
Shut up
(feat. Evidence, DJ Babu, Pharoahe Monch)
Sometimes
Hybrid
I’ve been digging into crates
Ever since I was living in space
Before the ratrace
Before monkeys had human traits
I mastered numerology
And Big Bang theology
Performed lobotomies
With telekinetic psychology
Invented the mic
So I could start blessing it
Chin-checking kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I twist mic cords in double-helixes
To show them what I’m made of
I buckle knees like leg-braces
Cast a spell of instrumentalness on all of you emcees who hate us
So you can 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 tried threats but moved onto a promise
I stomp s**t with or without an accomplice
And run the gauntlet with whoever that wants this
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High voltage
Coming at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
Akira
I put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones
Never satisfied my rhyme jones
Spraying bright day over what you might say
My blood-type’s Krylon, Technicolour Type-A
On highways, right with road-rage
Cages of wind and cages of tin that bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scene
Subliminal gangrene paintings
Overall the same things
Sing songs, karaoke, copy, bulls**t
Break bones verbally with sticks-and-stones tactics
Fourth dimension, combat convention
Write rhymes at ease while the track stands at attention
Meant to put you away
With the pencil, pistol, official, sixteen-line-a-rhyme missile
While you risk your all
I pick out all your flaws
Spin rah, blah, blah, blah
You can say you saw
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High voltage
Coming at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High voltage
Coming at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
Who’s the man demanding you hand over your Land Rover?
No man’s bolder than the Pharoahe when he jams
The plan’s over
I inflict sclerosis
The most ferocious
Why I spy, my third eye, extremely high voltage
That’s why I need Ruby Quartz glasses
’Cause when I glance there’s a chance I might blast the masses
Subliminals trasmitted through piano
Integrated in flow
Calculated to nano
I use skills when I need
Please head the rhyme I hear when I plead when I proceed through time
I walk through walls an inanimate obsticles
Via induced reduction of cells and molecules
I bring the knowledge
You swallow the state
That’s a hologram
I box your head
Fatten your lip like Collogen
A telepath to deliver verses with no postage
Pharoahe Monch, Mike Shinoda
We high voltage
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High voltage
Coming at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High voltage
Coming at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
Linkin Park (being scratched over, and over again)
Yeah,
i 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 a fortunate of fame
on the same verse i′m telling you to forfeit the game
i came in the ring like a dog on a chain
and i found out the underbelly is sicker than it seems
and its seems ugly, but it can get worse,
cos′ even the blueprint is a gift and a curse
cos′ once you have the 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
y′all oughta stop talking, start tryin′ to catch up mother fucker
and all the people say
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
try to catch up mother fucker
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
mom said money changes situations
big said it increases the complication
kane said don′t stab, i ain′t the one
chuck said that doozie weigh a mother fucking ton
and i′m just a student of the game that they taught
rocking every stage and every place that they brought me
i′m often underrated
and also corrected
and so this second i′m gonna save it for the record
i am the opposite of wack
opposite of weak
opposite of slack
standing in the heat
standing in a crack
closest to a beat, far from a punk
yall oughta stop talking, start tryin′ to catch up mother fucker
and all the people say
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
try to catch up mother fucker
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
oh when they come for me
come for me
i′ll be gone
oh when they come for me
come for me
i′ll be gone
oh when they come for me
come for me
i′ll be gone
and all the people say
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
try to catch up mother fucker
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
and all the people say
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
try to catch up mother fucker
aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaah aaaaaaah
hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey
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
Victimized! Victimized!
Never again! Victimized!
Victimized! Victimized!
Never again! Victimized
They′re acting like they want a riot/It′s a riot I′ll give ′em
As a siren climbs higher on this violent rythm
Threw your snakes in the grass/Supplyin′ the venom
I ain′t scared of your teeth/I admire what′s in ′em
You′ve been waiting in the shadows/And thinkin′ you′re hidden
But the truth is you will have a stumble to get ′em
Lauryn already hit ′em/And you′ve gotta be kiddin′
Wanna talk about a victim?/I′ma put you there with ′em
Victimized! Victimized!
Never again! Victimized!
Victimized! Victimized!
Never again! Victimized
Standing alone with no direction
How did I fall so far behind
Why am I searching for perfection
Knowing it′s something I won′t find
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I run
′Til the silence splits me open
I run
′Til it puts me underground
′Til I have no breath
and no roads left but one
When did I lose my sense of purpose
Can I regain what′s lost inside
Why do I feel like I deserve this
Why does my pain look like my pride
Ohhh
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I let myself down
In my fear and flaws
I run
′Til the silence splits me open
I run
′Til it puts me underground
′Til I have no breath
and no roads left but one
No roads left but one
In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I run
and the silence splits me open
I run
and it puts me underground
But there′s no regret
and no roads left to run
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
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
I′d like to introduce [echo fade[
In your [echo]
In your [being scratched]
In your sound institute of invention
And revival of audio weapon systems.
Let′s try [being scratched]
Let′s try something else.
Folks we have a very special guest for you tonight [echo fade]
BREAK IT DOWN! Cut it up! Using the waves of sound.
A true master paralyzes his opponent
Leaving him vulnerable to attack...
Mr. Hahn..
I’ve been diggin into crates ever since I was livin in space
Before the ratrace, before monkeys had human traits
I mastered numerology and bigbang theology
Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology
Invented the mic so I could start blessin it
Chincheckin kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I twist mic cords in double helixes and show them what I’m made of
I buckle knees like leg braces
Cast the spell of instrumental-ness and all of you emcees who hate us
So you can 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 tried threats but moved on to a promise
I stomp shit with or without an accomplice
And run the gauntlet with whoever that wants this
High Voltage
This is unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
Akira, I put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones
Never satisfy my rhyme jones
Sprayin bright day over what you might say
My Blood type′s Krylon Technicolor type A
On highways ride with road rage
Cages of wind and cages of tin that bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scene
Subliminal gangrene paintings
Over while the same thing
Sing song karaoke copy bullshit
Break bones verbally with sticks and stone tactics
Fourth dimension, combat convention
Write rhymes at ease while the track stands at attention
Meant to put you away with the pencil
Pistol, official, 16 line a rhyme missile
While you risk your all, I pick out all your flaws
Spin rah, blah blah blah
You can say you saw
High Voltage
This is unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
This is unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
Sometimes...
Sometimes I feel like a prophet
Misunderstood
Under the gun like a new disease
Sometimes I feel like a prophet
Misunderstood
Under the gun like a new disease
High Voltage
This is unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
This is unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
This is unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
This is unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
Next message
Hey, Mike, what’s up?
This is Ron, Riff Raff, just asking you what’s happening?
I was just touching base, seeing how your Easter went
Um, just seeing if you’re going to see Joe sometime soon, too,
Because he’s got my keyboard that I’ve been trying to get back
I’ve been trying to call him and he hasn’t been returning any messages
So I’m seeing what the best angle is to, you know, get it back
Part of me won’t go away
Everyday reminded how much I hate it
Weighted against the consequences
Can’t live without it so it’s senseless
Wanna cut it out of my soul
And just live with a gaping hole
Take control of my life
And wash out all the burnt taste
I made the problems in the first place
Hang my head low ‘cause it’s part of me
Ya hardly see right next to the heart of me
Heard of me the routine scar
New cuts cover where the old ones are
And now I’m sick of this
I can’t stand the sandpaper thoughts that grade on my sanity
I rather not even be then the man that’s staring in the mirror through me
[Pre chorus]
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what’s killing me [x4]
I feel it everyday
I feel I made my way
I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside
Swallowing me
Freedom can be frightening if you′ve never felt it
Once it’s been dealt with you feel like you’ve been touched by something angelic
And then melted down into a pool of peace
Cease to be the animal you used to be
Remove the broken parts you know were wrong
And feel the karma when the problem’s all gone
And then you start to see another piece of yourself that you can’t let be
Memories of the last fight to free yourself
Take it to the depths of the bottom of the well
And now you know you can choose to lose the part in your heart
Where your insides bruised
You can live if you’re willing to
Put a stop to just what’s killing you
[Pre chorus x4]
[Chorus]
(Alive in me, inside of me, a part of me screams away silently
This part of me won’t go away, part of me won’t go away
Everywhere I look around I see how everyone aught to be
Every time I see myself I see there’s always something wrong with me)
[Chorus x2]
I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside, swallowing me [x2]
I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight,
Because my conscience leaves me no other choice.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war:
This way of settling difference is not just.
This business of burning human beings with napalm,
Filling our nation′s homes with orphans and widows,
Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane.
Of sending men home from the dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically
deranged,
Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. (x6)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
You say that you ... me
Ohhhohhohoh
And you take something out of me
So predictable
Why do I have to see this through?
Why do I have to take this?
Isn′t there something I can do
to make myself finally say this
No
You′ve taken this too far
Exploiting who you are
For all too see,
You′re not the one that you pretend to be
You start with apologies
Ohhhohhohoh
Then take another shot at me
So predictable
Why do I have to see this through
Why do I have to take this
Isn′t there something I can do
to make myself finally say this
No
You′ve taken this too far
Exploiting who you are
For all too see,
You′re not the one that you pretend this
No
You′ve taken this too far
Exploiting who you are
For all too see,
You′re not the one that you pretend to be
Oh oh oh ah ah oh
Oh oh oh ah ah oh
Oh oh oh ah ah oh
Oh oh oh ah ah oh
Oh oh oh ah ah oh
Oh oh oh ah ah oh
Oh oh oh ah ah oh
No
You′ve taken this too far
Exploiting who you are
For all too see,
You′re not the one that you pretend this
No
You′ve taken this too far
Exploiting who you are
For all too see,
You′re not the one that you pretend to be
Where should I start
Disjointed heart
I’ve got no commitment
To my own flesh and blood
Left all alone
Far from my home
No one to hear me, to heal my ill heart, I
Keep it locked up inside
Cannot express
To the point I’ve regressed
If anger’s a gift, then I guess I’ve been blessed, I
Keep it locked up inside
Keep my distance from your lies
It’s too late to love me now
You helped me to show me
It’s too late to love me now
You don’t even know me
Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Break)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace (Me)
Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Too)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Keep it locked up inside
Keep my distance from your lies
Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Break)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace (Me)
Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Too)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Keep my distance
Keep my distance
Keep my distance
Keep my distance
You take
You take
Away
Away
Why does it feel like night today, day, day, day, day
Something in here′s not right today, day, day, day, day
Why does it feel like night today, day, day, day, day
Paranoia′s all I got left, left, left, left, left, left
You take
You take
Away
Away
This is so fun, this whole project is like fun
Did that sound good?
That′s right
I′m swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don′t apologize
I′m losing what I don′t deserve
The blame is mine alone
For bridges I have burned
So don′t apologize
I′m losing what I don′t deserve
What I don′t deserve.
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 microphone
Mixed media
And you do it like this
Mixed media
Step up to the microphone
And you do it like this
Mixed media
Step up to the microphone
And you do it like this...
This is war with no weapons,
Marchin with no steppin,
Murder with no killin,
ill in every direction.
First, no sequel, do the math
No equal
A John with no Yoko
More power, less people
And yeah I′m not afraid of that
Print in your paperback
Every rapper′s made in fact
To act as a delayed attack
Every phrase a razorblade
And save it till they play it back
Slay em leave em layin on the paper bank
Fade to black
In the wastelands of today,
When there′s nothing left to lose,
And and there′s nothing more to take,
But you force yourself to choose,
In the wastelands of today,
When tomorrow disappears
When the future slips away,
And your world turns into fear,
In the wastelands of today
Roll credits, forget it,
The show′s done,
They′re talking for just talkin,
Meaning they got none,
None of you come proper,
They talk like a shotgun,
But how many of you got bred with integrity,
Not one
So no, I′m not afraid to see you suckas hold a blade to me,
Aint no way to shake the ground I built before you came to be,
Take it how you take it, I′m the opposite of vacancy,
And this not negotiation, I can hear you,
Wait and see...
In the wastelands of today,
When there′s nothing left to lose,
And and there′s nothing more to take,
But you force yourself to choose,
In the wastelands of today,
When tomorrow disappears
When the future slips away,
And your world turns into fear,
And your world turns into fear,
In the wastelands of today!
In the wastelands of today,
When there′s nothing left to lose,
And and there′s nothing more to take,
But you force yourself to choose,
In the wastelands of today,
When tomorrow disappears
When the future slips away,
And your world turns into fear,
And your world turns into fear,
In the wastelands of today!
In the wastelands of today!
In the wastelands of today!
(feat. The Humble Brothers, Jonathan Davis)
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’m about to break
This room to breathe
This room to breathe
This room to breathe
I cannot take this anymore
Saying everything I’ve said before
All these words, they make no sence
I found bliss in ignorance
Less I hear, the less you say
You’ll find that out anyway
I find the answers aren’t so clear
Wish I could find a way to disappear
All these thoughts, they make no sence
I found bliss in ignorance
Nothing seems to go away
Over and over again
Just like before
Everything you say to me
And I’m about to break
I need a little room to breathe
And I’m about to break
Everything you say to me
And I’m about to break
I need a little room to breathe
And I’m about to break
These are the places where I can feel torn from my body
My flesh, it peels during this ride we can cut upwhat we like
I’m about to break
Waiting alone, I cannot resist
Feeling this hate, I have never missed
Please, someone, give me a reason to rip off my face
Blood is a pouring
And pouring
And pouring
And pouring
And pouring
And pouring
And pouring
And pouring
And pouring
And pouring
Shut up when I’m talking to you
Shut up
Blood is pouring
Shut up
Blood is pouring
Shut up
Blood is pouring
Shut up when I’m talking to you
Shut up
Blood is pouring
Shut up
Blood is pouring
Shut up
Blood is pouring
Shut up
I’m about to break
Everything you say to me
And I’m about to break
I need a little room to breathe
And I’m about to break
Everything you say to me
And I’m about to break
I need a little room to breathe
And I’m about to
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
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
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First message
Yo, Mike
This is Chali 2na, w’sup, man?
I’m just trying to catch up with you, man,
so we can go ahead and get this song on the roll, with a pot-n-a-d
Haha, call me back, peace
See I was once told
That I would litterate gold
Now I′m at the crossroads
Selling my soul
I′ve been laughed at
Slepped on and stepped on
Backstabbed twice but I always kept on
I′m falling
And I can hear my conscience calling
I see my life dissolving
While I′m one stallin
Why life′s gotta be this way
It′s the price we pay
Just to live another day
Get yourself up, you′re falling
Gotta get yourself up, get up, don′t stop, you′re falling
She saw life′s a bitch but I love her
Brother never judge a book by the cover
Same name but different faces
Same case but different places
Life′s strange
Joy, pain
Sunshine, rain
Yo we′ve gotta maintain
Why life gotta be this way
It′s the price we pay just to see another day
Get yourself up, you′re falling
Gotta get yourself up, get up, don′t stop, you′re falling (falling, falling, falling)
You′re living on a lie
Better realize you′re falling down
You′re living on a lie
Better get yourself together now
Better get up from the ground
You′re living on a lie (lie, lie, lie)
You′re living on a lie (lie, lie, lie)
It spill blood, sweat and tears
I crept on my knees
And begged for deaf ears
I wouldn′t learn
Until I got burned
Every laugh was changed
That was the day it got turned
Lifes Strange somebody wants me to obtain
Some people change, others stay the same
Why life′s gotta be this way
See it′s the price we pay just to live another day
Get yourself up you′re falling
Gotta get yourself up, get up, don′t stop, you′re falling (falling, falling, falling)
You′re living on a lie
Better realize you′re falling down
You′re living on a lie
Better get yourself together now
Better get up from the ground
You′re living on a lie
Better realize you′re falling down
You′re living on a lie
Better get yourself together now
Better get up from the ground
You′re living on a lie
Better get yourself together now
Better get up from the ground
You′re livin on a lie (lie, lie, lie, lie)
You′re livin on a lie (lie, lie, lie, lie)
You′re livin on a lie (lie, lie, lie, lie)
Get yourself up, you′re falling
Gotta get yourself up get up, don′t stop, you′re falling
Get yourself up you′re falling
Gotta get yourself up, get up, don′t stop, you′re falling
You′re living on a lie
Next message
Yo, what′s up?
It’s Stef, call me up
I’m going to be in town all this week;
So, if you want to get that track taken care of, let me know
Call me on my cell, all right?
Later
Turn my
mic up louder I got to say somethin.
Lightweights step it aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumpin
People on the street they panic and start running.
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming.
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme i′m dumping.
Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and
Jump when they tell us that they wanna to see jumping.
F**k that, I wanna see some fist pumping.
risk something, take back what′s yours
say something that you know they might attack you for
cause I′m sick of being treated like I have before
like it′s stupid standing for what I′m standing for.
Like this war′s really just a different brand of war.
Like it doesn′t cater to rich and abandon poor.
Like they understand you in the back of the jet, when you
can′t put gas in your tank, and these f**kers are
laughing their way to the bank, cashing the check
asking you to have compassion, AND have SOME respect
for a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
and the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
in the living room laughing like "what did he say?"
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
In my living room watching, I am not laughing,
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen
The world is cold, the bold men take action
have to react or get blown into fractions.
Ten years old, it′s something to see,
another kid my age drug under a jeep,
taken and bound, and found later under a tree,
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me.
Do you see, the soldiers, they′re out today they
Brush the dust from bulletproof vests away.
It′s ironic, at times like this you pray,
but a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday.
There′s bombs on the buses, bikes, roads,
inside your market,your shops, 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"
And meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
and the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.
With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.
With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.
With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.
With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.
With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.
With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.
You say you′re not going to fight
Because no one will fight for you
And you think there′s not enough love
And no one to give it to
And you′re sure you′ve hurt for so long
You′ve got nothing left to lose
So you say you′re not going to fight
Because no one will fight for you
You say the weight of the world
Has kept you from letting go
And you think compassion′s a flaw
And you′ll never let it show
And you′re sure you′ve hurt in a way
That no one will ever know
But someday the weight of the world
Will give you strength to go
Hold on, the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
So hold on, the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
So hold on, the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
Just hold, on the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
(feat. Jay Gordon of Orgy)
Yo, yo
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 like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
(You live what you’ve learned)
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
You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
You live what you’ve learned
Yo, yo
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
Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame (frame)
Puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
(You) You can’t run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won’t last
You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
You live what you’ve learned
(feat. Mike Shinoda, Stephen Richards)
When I look into your eyes there nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes staring back at me
[Backwards:]
Everything has to end
You’ll soon find that we’re out of time left to watch it all unwind
Everything falls apart
Even the people who never frown eventually break down
Everything has to end
You’ll soon find that we’re out of time left to watch in all unwind
Everything falls apart
Even the people who never frown eventually break down
I’ve lied to you
This is the last smile that I’ll fake for the sake of being with you
Everything falls apart even
Even the people who never frown eventually break down
Everything has to end
You’ll soon find we’re out of time left to watch it all unwind
The sake of being with you
Everything falls apart
Even the people who never frown eventually break down
The sacrifice is never knowing
Why I stay
When you just push away
No matter what you see
You’re still so blind to me
[Backwards:]
Even the people who never frown eventually break down
I’ve tried, like you, to do everything you wanted to
This is the last time
That I’ll take the blame 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 stay
When you just push away
No matter what you see
You’re still so blind to me
Reverse psychology is failing miserably
It’s so hard to be left all alone
Telling you is the only chance for me
There is nothing left but to turn and face you
When I look into your eyes there nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes staring back at me
Asking why
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie
The sacrifice is never knowing
Why I stay
When you just push away
No matter what you see
You’re still so blind to me
Why I stay
When you just push away
No matter what you see
You’re still so blind to me
(feat. Cheapshot, Jubacca, Rasco, Planet Asia)
Uh, yeah
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 that watches everytime I lie
A face that laughs everytime I fall
And watches everything
So, 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 looking 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 a face inside that’s right beneath my skin
Hey, yo
Here we go again with the pain I feel isn’t real
But in my mind, I find myself in places with names but not faces
My memory races at speeds
Hundred degrees
My soul bleeds, devil must’ve planted the seed
Now it feels like my back’s against the wall
I’m taking the fall
Whenever I call nobody’s responding at all
But I don’t know who I can trust
The screaming my name
I need somebody to help me out of the frame
All I’m trying to do is just master me
All I want to do is smoke a blast-to-beat
But something keeps talking to me
Consciously, responsibly, keeps haunting me from dusk ’til dawn
Everything has something for you
That voice inside of your head got you projecting paranoia
Cold sweat shining on your face
Exposing your purpose
And if I ripped off your skin I’d probably find another person
There’s nothing worse than trying to bring yourself on back from the dead
So I advise you: listen to that voice in the back of your head
It’s like I’m paranoid looking 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 a face inside that’s right beneath my skin
It’s like I’m paranoid looking 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 a face inside that’s right beneath my skin
The face inside is right beneath your skin
The face inside is right beneath your skin
The face inside is right beneath your skin
The face inside is right beneath your skin
The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me
The sun goes down
It’s like I’m paranoid
I feel the light betray me
The sun goes down
Can’t stop what I’m hearing within
It’s like the face inside is right beneath my skin
It’s like I’m paranoid looking 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 a face inside that’s right beneath my skin
It’s like I’m paranoid looking 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 a face inside that’s right beneath my skin
You know what I mean
You could put a label on a life,
Put a label on a lifestyle
Sometimes...
You know
Put a label on how you wake up every morning
And go to bed at night
Hybrid
I’ve been diggin into crates ever since I was livin in space
Before the ratrace, before monkeys had human traits
I mastered numerology and bigbang theology
Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology
Invented the mic so I could start blessin it
Chincheckin kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I twist mic cords in double helixes and show them what I’m made of
I buckle knees like leg braces
Cast the spell of instrumental-ness and all of you emcees who hate us
So you can 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 tried threats but moved on to a promise
I stomp shit with or without an accomplice
And run the gauntlet 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 every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
Akira, I put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones
Never satisfy my rhyme jones
Sprayin bright day over what you might say
My Blood type′s Krylon Technicolor type A
On highways ride with road rage
Cages of wind and cages of tin that bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scene
Subliminal gangrene paintings
Over while the same thing
Sing song karaoke copy bullshit
Break bones verbally with sticks and stone tactics
Fourth dimension, combat convention
Write rhymes at ease while the track stands at attention
Meant to put you away with the pencil
Pistol, official, 16 line a rhyme missile
While you risk your all, I pick out all your flaws
Spin rah, blah 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 every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
The Unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
And like the rock and rap
You know what i mean
People act like you know
Wow that’s a new invention
That shits brand new
We′re constantly evolving
It is constantly changing
Sometimes...
There′s a lot of change
Everybody′s always up with labels
There ain’t no label for this shit
They′re always gonna try to put a label on it
Try to create something
So they can water it down
Sometimes I feel like a prophet
Misunderstood
Under the gun like a new disease
Sometimes I feel like a prophet
Misunderstood
Under the gun like a new disease
High Voltage
The Unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
The Unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
The Unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
High Voltage
The Unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide
You know what I mean, you can put a label on a lifestyle
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
The 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
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all my shame to the grave
[Chorus]
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
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
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all my shame to the grave
Just washing it aside
All of the helplessness inside
Pretending I don′t feel misplaced
It′s so much simpler than change
[Chorus]
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
It′s easier to run
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made
It′s easier to go
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all my shame to the grave
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I′m about to say
But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed
But somehow I got caught up in between
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I′m about to say
But trying to be someone else was harder than it seemed
But somehow I got caught up in between
Between my pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that′s worse than one is none
Let me apologize to begin with
Let me apologize for what I′m about to say
But trying to regain your trust was harder than it seemed
But somehow I got caught up in between
Between my pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that′s worse than one is none
The only thing that′s worse than one is none
And I cannot explain to you
In anything I say or do or plan
Fear is not afraid of you
Guilt′s a language you can understand
I cannot explain to you in anything I say or do
I hope the actions speak the words they can
For my pride and my promise
For my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that′s worse than one is none
For my pride and my promise
Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way
The things I want to say to you get lost before they come
The only thing that′s worse than one is none
The only thing that′s worse than one is none
The only thing that′s worse than one is none
It goes a one
Two, three
With the hunger of a lion, the strength of a Sun
I don′t need to sweat it when the 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 small 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 sharks on the left side, the snakes 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 razzle me I do it like I got nothing to lose
And you can run your mouth like you could try to fill my shoes
But steady little soldier, I ain′t standing next to you
I can lay it on the ground before you′re 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 men sing
Bring me to kingdom come
This is something for your people on the block to
Blackout and rock to, give you what you need
Like Papa, who shot you
Seperate the weak from the obsolete
the meek, I creep hard on impostors
And switch styles on the dime, quick-witted y′all
Quit tripping, I don′t have time for your crying
I grind tough, sucka, make your mind up
Are you in the firing squad or are you in the 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 ill and ride the rhythm while you quiver in your parents
So shake, shake down, Money, here′s the break down
You can play the bank, Imma play the bank take down
And no mistakes now I′m coming to get you
I′m just a Banksy, you′re a Brainwash, get the picture?
It′s like that
We swim against the rising waves
That crash against the shore
My 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
My body bends until it breaks
And sings again no more
Because time has torn the flesh away
The early morning sings no more
[Mike Shinoda]
Yea 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 a trench out, laid down there
With a shovel up out to reach somewhere.
Yea someone pour it in,
Make it a dirt dance floor again.
Say your prayers and stomp it out,
When they bring that chorus in.
[Chester Bennington]
(Chorus)
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away.
[Mike Shinoda]
I bleed it out.
Go, stop the show.
Chop your words in 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.
Candypaint 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 won′t be satisfied.
So why, try ignoring him.
Make your dirt dance floor again.
Say your prayers and stomp it out,
When they bring that chorus in.
[Chester Bennington]
(Chorus)
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away.
I bleed it out.
I′ve opened up these scars,
I′ll make you face this.
I pulled myself so far,
I′ll make you face this now.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away,
Just to throw it away.
I bleed it out. [3X]
When you were standing in the wake of devastation
when you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
with the cataclysm raining down, insides crying save me now
you were there and possibly alone.
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you′ve known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go, let it go.
And in the burst of light that blinded every angel
as if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
you felt the gravity of temper grace falling into empty space
no one there to catch you in there arms
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you′ve known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go, let it go.
(Multiple Voices)
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you′ve known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go,
let it go
let it go
let it go
let it go
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
you build up all the failiures all you′ve known
remember all the sadness and frustration
and let it go, let it go.
Drop that / get up
Take to the streets / better lock that kid up
Face full of teeth when he hock that spit up
Pacing the beat like a beast
Rocking the block on repeat
Speak from the cut like a rush of blood
Paint red on the sleeves of the ones you love
Lay the sick ones down and the bells will ring
Put pennies on the eyes let the dead men sing
I shiver and shake the warm air cold
I′m alone on my own
In every mistake I dig this hole
Through my skin and bones
It′s harder starting over
Than never to have changed
With Blackbirds following me
I′m digging out my grave
They close in, swallowing me
The pain, it comes in waves
I′m getting back what I gave
I sweat through the sheet as daylight fades
As I waste away
It traps me inside mistakes I′ve made
That′s the price I pay
It′s harder starting over
Than never to have changed
With Blackbirds following me
I′m digging out my grave
They close in, swallowing me
The pain, it comes in waves
I′m getting back what I gave
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
You hid your skeletons when I had shown you mine
You woke the devil that I thought you′d left behind
I saw the evidence, the crimson soaking through
Ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways to lose
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 left with emptyness that words cannot defend
You′ll never know what I became because of you
Ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways to lose
And you held it all
But you were careless to let it fall
You held it all
And I was by your side
Powerless
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
Powerless
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 like to think you′re never wrong
You have to act like you′re someone
You want someone to hurt like you
You want to share what you′ve been through
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
You like to think you′re never wrong
You have 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)
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 (2x)
You like to think you′re never wrong
You have to act like you′re someone
You want someone to hurt like you
You want to share what you′ve been through (2x)
Telling me to go
But hands beg me to stay
Your lips say that you love
Your eyes say that you hate
Theres truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
What you build you lay to waste
Theres truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I′ve gots what you didn′t take
So I, I wont be the one
Be the one to leave this in pieces
And you, you will be alone
Alone with all your secrets and regrets
Dont lie
You promise me the sky
Then toss me like a stone
You wrap me in your arms
And chill me to the bone
Theres truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I′ve gots what you didn′t take
So I, I wont be the one
Be the one to leave this in pieces
And you, you will be alone
Alone with all your secrets and regrets
Dont lie
So I, I wont be the one
Be the one to leave this in pieces
And you, you will be alone
Alone with all your secrets and regrets
Dont lie
I have a dream of a scene between the green hills
Clouds pull away and the sunlight′s revealed
People don′t talk about keeping it real
It′s understood that they actually will
And intoxicated and stimulated emcees
Staring in the trees, paranoid, are gone in the breeze
Watch them flee, hip-hop hits
Take a walk with me and what you′ll see
Is a land where the sand is made up of crushed up wax
And the sky beyond you is krylon blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme
And emcees have left materialism behind them
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don′t ignore who it′s for at the end of the night
[CHORUS]
Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol′ same
And dedicated to the people advancin′ the game
What′s real is the kids who know that something′s wrong
What′s real is the kids who think they don′t belong
What′s real is the kids who have nowhere to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun
I′ve seen a lot of shit, I′ve talked to a bum
Out on sunset strip, he asked me "How would you feel
If everybody acted like you didn′t exist
You′d lose your grip, probably eventually flip."
So let it be known, the only reason that we do this
Is so you can pick it up and just bang your head to it
While emcees fight to see who can be the commonest
Be floatin overhead like a space odyssey monolith
Over seeing the game, over being part of the same ol′ thing
It′s all gonna change in a hurricane of darkness and pain
And acidic rain and promises that you won′t do it again
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don′t ignore who it′s for at the end of the night
[Chorus]
Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
[Chorus]
This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol′ same
And dedicated to the people advancin′ the game
What′s real, everybody who doesn′t feel safe
What′s real, everybody who knows they′re out of place
What′s real, anybody with nowhere to run
Who hides in the shadows waiting for the sun