Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

01.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 mistake 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 face 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 watces 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 yotűu too/Right inside your skin

The sun goes down

I feel the light betray me

02. 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 sence

I find bliss in ignorance

Nothing seems to go away

Over and over again

Shut up when I’m talking to you

03. Wiht 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 predenting 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

04. 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 though

You take away when 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)

05. 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...

06. 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

07. 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

08. 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 cound 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 I

I put my trust in you

Pushed as far as I can go

And for all this

There’s only one thing you should know...

09. 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 quite it is/All alone/I’m so

Sick of the tension/Sick of the hunger

Sick of you acting like I owe you this

Find another place/To feed your greed-

While/I find a place to rest

You try to take the best of me

Go away

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 throught the rust and rot