Linkin Park

Lyrics

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

  The sun goes down
  I feel the light betray me

• 2. 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

• 3. 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 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

• 4. Points of Authority

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

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

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

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

• 5. 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...

• 6. 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 question
  [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

• 7. 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 to

  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

• 8. In The End

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

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

  One thing / I don't know why
  Doesn't even matter how hard you try
  Keep that in mind / I designed this rhyme
  To remind myself how
  I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me
  Acting like I was part of your property
  Remembering all the times you fought with me / I'm surprised
  It got so [far]
  Things aren't the way they were before
  You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
  Not that you knew me back then
  But it all comes back to me
  In the end
  You kept everything inside and even though I tried / it all fell apart
  What it meant to me / will eventually / be a memory / of a time when II put my trust in you
  Pushed as far as I can go
  And for all this
  There's only one thing you should know...

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

  Maybe someday I'll be just like you / and
  Step on people like you do and
  Run away the people I thought I knew
  I remember back then who you were
  You used to be calm / used to be strong
  Used to be generous / but you should've known
  That you'd
  Wear out your welcome / now you see
  How quiet it is / all alone / I'm soSick of the tension / sick of the hunger
  Sick of you acting like I owe you this
  Find another place / to feed your greed -
  While / I find a place to rest

  You try to take the best of me
  Go away

• 10. 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

• 11. Cure For The Itch

• 12. 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