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I shiver and shake through warm and cold and 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 breaks
As I waste away
It traps me inside mistakes I 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, what I need over 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
Lay the sick ones down
The bells will ring
Put pennies on their eyes, let the dead men sing

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'm getting back what I gave

I break down, fear is sinking in
The cold comes, racing through my skin
Searching for a way to get to you
Through the storm you...

Go, giving up your home
Go, leaving all you've known
You are not alone

With arms up, stretched into the sky
With eyes like, echoes in the night
Hiding from the hell that you've been through
Silent one, you....

Go, giving up your home
Go, leaving all you've known
You are not alone

Go, giving up your home
Go, leaving all you've known
You are not alone

*bridge*

You go, giving up your home
Go, leaving all you've known
You

Go, giving up your home
You are not unknown
You are not alone

You are not unknown
You are not alone

Forfeit the game
Stop the talk show
Product of what
Your taught to know
Forfeit the game
'Cause tomorrow
When it's all done
You reap what you sow

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 live what you've learned)
You have to act like you're someone
(You live what you've learned)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You live what you've learned)
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

Chorus

Forfeit the game
Stop the talk show
Product of what
Your taught to know
Forfeit the game
'Cause tomorrow
When it's all done
You reap what you sow (2x)

Chorus (2x)

Группа Linkin Park посвятила себя своей музыке и слушателям, которые их поддерживают. Смешав рок, хип-хоп и электронную музыку, команда получила звучание, которое трудно классифицировать, но очень легко узнать. В звучании этой лос-анджелесской группы мелодичный вокал сочетается с жесткими ритмами, тяжелыми гитарными риффами и головокружительными скрэтчами. Группу решили

В составе Linkin Park шесть человек: Роб Бурдон (ударные), Брэд Делсон (гитара), Даррен Фаррел (бас-гитара), Джозеф Хан (вертушки), Майк Шинода (MC, вокал) и Честер Беннингтон (вокал). Роб, Брэд и Майк познакомились еще в школе. Окончив учебное заведение, Майк входит в состав группы Xero, в которой также играют студент арт-колледжа и диджей Джозеф Хан и Даррен Фаррелл. Шинода, как и подобает настоящим друзьям, пригласил в команду своих корешей — Роба и Брэда. Группа меняет название на Hybrid Theory, после чего переименовывается в Linkin Park, когда в 1999 году в состав добавляется последний участник, вокалист Честер Беннингтон. Вскоре группа получает успех в клубах Лос-Анджелеса и за его пределами. В конце 1999 года Linkin Park подписывают контракт с Warner Bros и начинают запись дебютного альбома. Они решают назвать диск “Hybrid Theory” в честь одного из ранних названий группы. Диск вышел осенью 2000 года и был похож по звучанию на такие разные группы, как Deftones, The Roots, Nine Inch Nails и даже Aphex Twin. Продюсером альбома стал Дон Гилмор, известный по сотрудничеству с Pearl Jam. Такие синглы, как “Crawling” и “One Step Closer” быстро получили успех и постоянно звучали по радио и на MTV. Группа постоянно концертирует, приобретая все большее число поклонников. Коллектив выступает в “Family Values” и “Project: Revolution Tour” с Cypress Hill. В общей сложности в 2001 году группа отыгрывает 324 (!) концерта.

В январе 2002 года диск “Hybrid Theory” выдвигается на премию «Грэмми» в трех номинациях, включая «Лучший рок-альбом», а сами музыканты представлены в номинации «Открытие года». К радости фэнов группа завоевывает одну премию в номинации «Лучшая композиция в стиле хард-рок» за песню “Crawling”. Честер Беннингтон записывает вокальную партию в песне “System” для фильма “Queen Of The Damned”, а летом 2002 года музыканты выпускают свой второй альбом “Reanimation”, параллельно работая над следующим альбомом "Meteora", который вышел весной 2003 года. “Meteora” повторила успех “Hybrid Theory”. Синглами с альбома становятся "Somewhere I Belong", "Numb" и "Faint", занявшие высокие позиции во всех чартах. В 2003 году Linkin Park были удостоены множества премий, в том числе и награды MTV Video Music Awards.

В ноябре 2003 года Linkin Park выпустили комплект из компакт-диска и DVD “Live in Texas”. Материал для этого концертного альбома записывался в двух разных городах - в Далласе и Хьюстоне. В 2004 году группа устроила собственное масштабное турне под названием “Projekt Revolution”, в состав которого входили целых две сцены и комплекс развлечений “Revolution Village”. По результатам 2004 года “Projekt Revolution” оказались самыми прибыльными гастролями года. В конце 2004 года по просьбе MTV группа записала совместную пластинку с рэппером Джеем Зи, выполненную в технике “mash up”. Альбом “Collision Course” дебютировал сразу на первом месте чартов и принес группе «Грэмми».

В 2005 году Linkin Park решили немного отдохнуть от активной концертной деятельности. За год они дали всего два концерта – один в рамках серии благотворительных выступлений “Live 8”, а другой для организации “Music for Relief”, которую сами музыканты и создали, чтобы помогать пострадавшим от различных природных катаклизмов. Linkin Park также пытались разорвать свой контракт с лейблом Warner, однако лейбл был готов к переговорам, и в результате контракт был продлен на несколько более выгодных для группы условиях. Параллельно Майк Шинода объявил о своем желании поработать над собственным хип-хоп-проектом Fort Minor. Дебютный альбом Fort Minor “Rising Tied” вышел в свет в ноябре 2005. Честер Беннингтон также создал сразу несколько побочных проектов, и вся эта деятельность на стороне породила массу слухов о распаде группы. Однако оба вокалиста подтвердили, что распускать Linkin Park никто не собирался. В начале 2006 года стало известно, что группа отправилась в студию работать над новой пластинкой. В качестве продюсера этого альбома был привлечен человек-легенда Рик Рубин, работавший со Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers и System of a Down.

Работа над альбомом “Minutes to Midnight” растянулась на полтора года – вместе с Рубином группа засела в огромном особняке в Калифорнии и принялась экспериментировать с новыми звуками – в записи альбома использовались банджо, меллотроны, старинные гитары и усилители из личной коллекции Рубина и множество других, на первый взгляд, не подходящих для Linkin Park инструментов. Этой пластинкой сами музыканты надеются сломать сложившийся вокруг них стереотип. «Нас всегда записывали в одну кучу со всеми остальными рэп-рок артистами», говорит Майк Шинода. «Но мы сами никогда не стремились к такому положению вещей. У нас всегда было свое собственное лицо, и, полагаю, эта пластинка докажет это».

За столь продолжительное время работы над альбомом музыканты сочинили около 150 песен. Из-за такой обильной творческой активности группы выход пластинки переносился несколько раз – изначально он планировался на лето 2006 года, потом был перенесен на осень, потом на начало 2007 года, и, в конце концов, вышел в мае. В интервью, данном в сентябре 2006 года, Майк Шинода так объяснил эти переносы: «Когда песни буквально льются из тебя, совершенно не хочется как-то останавливать этот процесс». Из «налившихся» сотни с лишним песен группа отобрала для записи 17 штук – в альбом позже вошло только 12 из них. Новый материал Linkin Park заметно отличается от всего, что они записывали раньше – здесь почти нет сэмплов, и рэп-вокал Майка Шиноды можно услышать только в двух песнях. Сами музыканты считают “Minutes to Midnight” своей самой взрослой и серьезной работой.

I remembered black skies
The lightning all around me
I remembered each flash
As time began to blur
Like a startling sign
That fate had finally found me
And your voice was all I heard
That I get what I deserve

So give me reason
To prove me wrong
To wash this memory clean
Let the floods cross
The distance in your eyes
Give me reason
To fill this hole
сonnect the space between
Let it fill up to reach the truth that lies
Across this new divide

There was nothing inside
The memories left abandoned
There was nowhere to hide
The ashes fell like snow
And the ground caved in
Between where we were standing
And your voice was all I heard
That I get what I deserve

So give me reason
To prove me wrong
To wash this memory clean
Let the floods cross
The distance in your eyes
Across this new divide

And every loss and every lie
And every truth that you deny
And each regret and each goodbye
Was a mistake too great to hide?

And your voice was all I heard
But I get what I deserve

So give me reason
To prove me wrong
To wash this memory clean
Let the thoughts cross
The distance in your eyes
Give me reason
To fill this hole
сonnect the space between
Let it fill up to reach the truth that lies
Across this new divide

Across this new divide
Across this new divide

This is the first day of my last days
I built it up now I take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far
No need for me to stay the last thing left i just threw it away
I put my faith in god and my trust in you
Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do.

Wish there was something real wish there was something true 
Wish there was something real in this world full of you .

I'm the one without a soul I'm the one with this big fucking hole 
No new tale to tell twenty-six years on my way to hell
Gotta listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist fuck
Don't think you're having all the fun
You know me I hate everyone.

Wish there was something real wish there was something true 
Wish there was something real in this world full of you.

Wish there was something real wish there was something true 
Wish there was something real in this world full of you
Wish there was something real wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world full of you
This world full of you
This world full of you
This world full of you
This world full of you

Water came through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling there, like an ocean everywhere

Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking

All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water, I do...

Hope decays, generations disappear
Washed away, as a nation simply stares

Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away
But now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking

All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water, I do...
All you've ever wanted...
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet underground, now I...
Now I do...

Oh... Oh...
The little things give you away... the little things give you away
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you

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
And 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
And 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
And 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
But guilt's a language you can understand

I cannot explain to you
In anything I say or do
But 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

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

My insides all turn to ash, so slow
And the waves inside collide, so cold
A black winter blew away, from sight
And how the darkness over days, that night

And the clouds above moved closer
Looking so dissatisfied
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing

I used to be my own protection, but not now
'Cause my path has lost direction, somehow
A black winter blew away, from sight
And how the darkness over day, that night

And the clouds above moved 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...On a Valentine's Day

(I used to be my own protection, but not now)
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
('Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow)
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
(I used to be my own protection, but not now)
On a Valentine's Day...On a Valentine's Day
('Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow)

Are you lost in your lies?
Do you tell yourself I don't realize
Your crusade's a disguise?
Replaced with freedom with fear
You trade money for lives
I'm aware of what you've done

No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

I see pain, I see need
I see liars and fiends
Abuse power with greed
I had hope, I believed
But I'm beginning to think that I've been decieved
You will pay for what you've done

No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

Face it, hypocrite!
Face it, hypocrite!
Face it, hypocrite!

No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be released

Your time has come to be released
Your time has come to be erased

Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something
Lightweights steppin' aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping
People on the street then panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet, complete coming
I jump in my mind, I 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 drumming
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping
List 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 had 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 their jet
When you can't put gas in your tank, these fuckers
Are laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their check
Asking you to have the passion 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 it, 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
At 10 years old, it's something to see
Another kid my age drugged 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 that are out today?
They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, and 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'
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
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 the skies above
The ocean opens up to swallow you

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 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

(Na na na, na na na, na na na, na na na)
What I've done
(Na na na, na na na, na na na, na na na)
Forgiving what I've done

Na na na, na na na, na na na, na na

I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye's the only way

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye's the only way

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you

Yeah, 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 the trench out, laid down there
With a shovel up that'll reach somewhere
Yeah, someone pour it in
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

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, go, stop the show
Drop your words and let sloppy flow
Shotgun, opera, lock and load
Cock it back and then watch it go
Mama, help me, I've been cursed
Death is rollin' in every verse
Candy paint 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 I try ignoring him
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

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've 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
I bleed it out
I bleed it out

I dreamed I was missing, you were so scared
But no one would listen, 'cause no one else cared
After my dreaming, I woke with this fear
What am I leaving when I'm done here?

So if you're asking me, I want you to know

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest

Leave out all the rest, don't be afraid
I've taken my beating, I've shared what I made
I'm strong on the surface, not all the way through
I've never been perfect, but neither have you

So if you're asking me, I want you to know

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting all the hurt inside you've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
Don't resent me, and when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting all the hurt inside you've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are

I can't be who you are

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

[Caught in the undertow
Just caught in the undertow]

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 then I can take

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

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

I’ve
Become so numb
I can’t feel you there
Tired of being what you want me to be
I’ve
Become so numb
I can’t feel you there
Tired of being what you want me to be

Wake in a sweat again
Another day's been laid to waste
In my disgrace
Stuck in my head again
Feels like I'll never leave this place
There's no escape

I'm my own worst enemy

I've given up, I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say?
Take this all away, I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong with me

I don't know what to take
Thought I was focused, but I'm scared
I'm not prepared
I hyperventilate
Looking for help, somehow, somewhere
And no one cares

I'm my own worst enemy

I've given up, I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say?
Take this all away, I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong with me

Put me out of my misery!
Put me out of my misery!
Put me out of my
Put me out of my fucking misery!

I've given up, I'm sick of feeling
Is there nothing you can say?
Take this all away, I'm suffocating
Tell me what the fuck is wrong with me