Linkin Park

Lyrics

• 1. Somewhere I Belong

  When this began
  I had nothing to say
  And I'd get lost in the nothingness inside of me
  I was confused
  And I let it all out to find / That I'm
  Not the only person with these things in mind
  Inside of me
  But all the vacancy the words revealed
  Is the only real thing that I've got left to feel
  Nothing to lose
  Just stuck / hollow and alone
  And the fault is my own
  And the fault is my own

  I want to heal
  I want to feel
  What I thought was never real
  I want to let go of the pain I've held so long
  [Erase all the pain 'til it's gone]
  I want to heal
  I want to feel
  Like I'm close to something real
  I want to find something I've wanted all along
  Somewhere i belong

  And I've got nothing to say
  I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face
  I was confused looking everywhere / Only to find that it's
  Not the way i had imagined it all in my mind
  So what am I what do I have but negativity
  'Cause i can't justify the
  Way everyone is looking at me
  Nothing to lose
  Nothing to gain / Hollow and alone
  And the fault is my own
  The fault is my own

  I will never know
  Myself until I do this on my own
  And I will never feel
  Anything else until my wounds are healed
  I will never be
  Anything 'til I break away from me
  And I will break away
  I'll find myself today

  I want to heal
  I want to feel like
  I'm somewhere I belong

• 2. Lying From You

  When I pretend
  Everything is what I want it to be
  I look exactly like what you had always wanted to see
  When I pretend
  I can forget about the criminal I am
  Stealing second after second just 'cause I know I can / But
  I can't pretend this is the way it will stay / I'm just
  Trying to bend the truth
  I can't pretend i'm who you want me to be
  So I'm

  Lying my way from you

  [No / No turning back now]
  I wanna be pushed aside
  So let me go
  [No / No turning back now]
  Let me take back my life
  I'd rather be all alone
  [No turning back now]
  Anywhere on my own
  'Cause I can see
  [No / No turning back now]
  The very worst part of you
  Is me

  I remember what they taught to me
  Remember condescending talk of who I ought to be
  Remember listening to all of that and this again
  So I pretended up a person who was fitting in
  And now you think this person really is me and I'm
  [Trying to bend the truth]
  But the more I push
  The more I'm pulling away
  'Cause I'm

  Lying my way from you

  This isn't what I wanted to be
  I never thought that what I said
  Would have you running from me
  Like this

  The very worst part of you
  The very worst part of you
  Is me

• 3. 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

• 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. 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

• 6. Faint

  I am
  Little bit of loneliness
  A little bit of disregard
  A handful of complaints
  But I can't help the fact
  That everyone can see these scars
  I am
  What I want you to want
  What I want you to feel
  But it's like
  No matter what I do
  I can't convince you
  To just believe this is real
  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 I got

  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 want to 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 I 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

  No
  Hear me out now
  You're gonna listen to me
  Like it or not
  Right now

• 7. From The Inside

  Don't know who to trust
  No surprise
  Everyone feels so far away from me
  Heavy thoughts sift through dust
  And the lies

  Trying not to break
  But I'm so tired of this deceit
  Every time I try to make myself
  Get back up on my feet
  All I ever think about is this
  All the tiring time between
  And how
  Trying to put my trust in you
  Just takes so much out of me

  I take everything from the inside
  And throw it all away
  'Cause I swear/ For the last time
  I won't trust myself with you

  Tension is building inside
  Steadily
  Everyone feels so far away from me
  Heavy thoughts forcing their way
  Out of me

  I won't trust myself with you
  I won't waste myself on you
  Waste myself on you
  You

• 8. P5hng Me A*wy

  When I look into your eyes theres nothing there to see
  Nothing but my own mistakes staring back at me

  Everything has to end
  Youll soon find that were out of time left to watch it all unwind
  Everything falls apart
  Even the people who never froun eventually break down
  Everything has to end
  Youll soon find were out of time left to watch in all unwind
  Everything falls apart
  Even the people who never frown eventually break down

  Ive lied to you
  This is the last smile that Ill 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
  Youll soon find were 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 stayed with you
  Just push away
  No matter what you see
  Youre still so blind to me

  Even the people who never frown eventually break down

  Ive tried, like you, to do everything you wanted to
  This is the last time
  That Ill 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
  Youll soon find were out of time left to watch it all unwind
  The sacrifice is never knowing

  Why I stay with you
  Just push away
  No matter what you see
  Youre still so blind to me

  Reverse psychology is failing miserably
  Its 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 theres 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 stayed with you
  Just push away
  No matter what you see
  Youre still so blind to me

  Why I stayed with you
  Just push away
  No matter what you see
  Youre still so blind to me

• 9. Numb

  I'm tired of being what you want me to be
  Feeling so faithless
  Lost under the surface
  I don't know what you're expecting of me
  Put under the pressure
  Of walking in your shoes

  [Caught in the undertow / Just caught in the undertow]
  Every step that I take is another mistake to you

  I've
  Become so numb
  I can't feel you there
  Become so tired
  So much more aware
  I'm becoming this
  All I want to do
  Is be more like me
  And be less like you

  Can't you see that you're smothering me
  Holding too tightly
  Afraid to lose control
  'Cause everything that you thought I would be
  Has fallen apart right in front of you

  [Caught in the undertow / Just caught in the undertow]
  Every step that I take is another mistake to you
  [Caught in the undertow / Just caught in the undertow]
  And every second I waste is more than I can take

  But I know
  I may end up failing too
  But I know
  You were just like me
  With someone disappointed in you

• 10. 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...

• 11. 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...

• 12. 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