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Breaking The Habit

BIOGRAPHIE

Wie jede Nicht-Casting-Band, hat auch Linkin Park mal klein angefangen. Während Chester in der Band „Grey Daze“ mit den Alben „Wake Me“ und „No Sun Today“ eher mäßigen Erfolg hatte, da seine Bandmitglieder recht verschwenderisch mit ihrem Geld umgingen, suchten Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Joseph Hahn und Mike Shinoda nach einem geeigneten „Shouter“. Diesen fanden sie in Chester Bennington.

Zusammen gründeten sie die Band „Xero“ und brachten lediglich fünf Lieder heraus von denen es nur eines auf ein späteres Album schaffte. Nach einigen Clubauftritten änderten sie ihren Namen in „Hybrid Theory“. Um einem Streit mit einer gleichnamigen Band aus dem Weg zu gehen, benannten sie sich später nach dem Lincoln Park, kalifornisch ausgesprochen kam es schließlich zum Endergebnis: „Linkin Park“.

Mit ihrem ersten Album, das sie als Entschädigung für ihren Namenswechsel „Hybrid Theory“ nannten, hatten sie zumindest nach der zweiten ausgekoppelten Single weltweit großen Erfolg. Auf ihre erste Single „One Step Closer“ folgten die sehr erfolgreichen Singles „Crawling“, „In The End“ und „Papercut“.

Nach halbjähriger Pause machten sie am 22. 07. 2002 mit dem Remix von „Points Of Authority“ den Auftakt für das Album „Reanimation“. „Reanimation“ enthielt Remixe von „Hybrid Theory“ – Songs und Non-Album Tracks. Da es nicht viel Neues beinhaltete, hielt sich der Erfolg in Grenzen und keine weitere Single wurde ausgekoppelt.

Als sich einige schon sorgten, dass von „Linkin Park“ nichts Neues mehr käme, kam mit der Single „Somewhere I Belong“ ein weiterer Hit, der das Album „Meteora“ ankündigte. Es folgten der recht erfolgreiche Song „Faint“ und ihr bisher größter Hit „Numb“. Noch während „Numb“ täglich im Radio und Fernsehen gespielt wurde, kam ihr neuestes Album „Live In Texas“ zu ihrem Liveauftritt in Texas in den Handel. Das Video zur Liveversion von Numb hielt den Titel noch länger in den Charts. Anschließend wurden „From The Inside“ und „Breaking The Habit“ aus dem Album „Meteora“ als Single herausgebracht.

Mit "Collision Course" erschien zusammen mit der Single "Numb/Encore" am 29. 11. 2004 das nächste Album. Erneut handelte es sich um keine wirklich neuen Songs, denn bei "Collision Course" nahmen "Linkin Park" zusammen mit Rapper "Jay-Z" Mixversionen ihrer Songs auf und gaben ein auf der Bonus DVD enthaltenes Konzert im "Roxy Theatre" in West Hollywood.

Wer allerdings auf ein brandneues Album wartet, kann sich auf Ende 2005 freuen, denn im Interview mit dem amerikanischen Rock-Radiosender KROQ hat Mike Shinoda folgendes gesagt:

"Wir arbeiten ... an einem neuen Album und hoffen, dass es dieses Jahr veröffentlicht wird...Wir wollen auch noch ein Best Of-Album, welches die besten Songs und ein paar Remixe beinhalten wird, veröffentlichen!"

Die unzähligen Fans beweisen, dass es einfach der Mix aus Gitarren Beats, Raps, Chesters sogenannten „Powershouts“, DJ-Skills und Keyboards ist, der so bei keiner anderen Band zu finden ist. Nicht zuletzt kümmern sich „Linkin Park“ sehr um ihre Fans. Im Fanclub „Linkin Park Underground“ erhalten Fans Zugang zu exklusivem Material, z.B. erhalten Mitglieder regelmäßig CDs mit unveröffentlichten Tracks. Auf http://linkinpark.com gibt es zudem eine riesige Community, in der sich Fans aus aller Welt untereinander austauschen können.

DISCOGRAPHY

Hier findet ihr alle Alben von Linkin Park und Chesters alter Band "Grey Daze" sowie alle Songs von "Xero" (der alte Name von "Linkin Park").

Zuletzt erschienen: Collision Course, Linkin Park Underground 4.0

COLLISION COURSE NEW!

CD:
01. Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You
02. Big Pimpin'/Papercut
03. Jigga What/Faint
04. Numb/Encore
05. Izzo/In The End
06. Points Of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer

DVD [Tracks]:
01. Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You (Live)
02. Big Pimpin'/Papercut (Live)
03. Jigga What/Faint (Live)
04. Numb/Encore (Live)
05. Izzo/In The End (Live)
06. Points Of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer (Live)

DVD [Mash-Ups]:
01. It's Goin' Down (Live)
02. Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You (Live)
03. Jigga What/Faint (Live)
04. Numb/Encore (Live)
05. Points Of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer (Live)

LIVE IN TEXAS

CD:
01. Somewhere I Belong
02. Lying From You
03. Papercut
04. Points Of Authority
05. Runaway
06. Faint
07. From The Inside
08. P5hng Me A*wy
09. Numb
10. Crawling
11. In The End
12. One Step Closer

DVD:
Don't Stay
Somewhere I Belong
Lying From You
Papercut
Points Of Authority
Runaway
Faint
From The Inside
Figure.09
With You
By Myself
P5hng Me A*wy
Numb
Crawling
In The End
A Place For My Head
One Step Closer

METEORA

01. Foreword (Intro)
02. Don't Stay
03. Somewhere I Belong
04. Lying From You
05. Hit The Floor
06. Easier To Run
07. Faint
08. Figure.09
09. Breaking The Habit
10. From The Inside
11. Nobody's Listening
12. Session
13. Numb

REANIMATION

01. Opening
02. Pts.Of.Athrty
03. Enth E Nd
04. [Chali]
05. Frgt/10
06. P5hng Me A*wy
07. Plc.4 Mie Head
08. X-Ecutioner Style
09. H! Vltg3
10. [Riff Raff]
11. Wth>You
12. Ntr\Mssion
13. Ppr:Kut
14. Rnw@y
15. My{Dsmbr
16. [Stef]
17. By_Myslf
18. Kyur4 Th Ich
19. 1stp Klosr
20. Krwlng

HYBRID THEORY

01. Papercut
02. One Step Closer
03. With You
04. Points Of Authority
05. Crawling
06. Runaway
07. By Myself
08. In The End
09. A Place For My Head
10. Forgotten
11. Cure For The Itch
12. Pushing Me Away

LINKIN PARK UNDERGROUND V.4.0 NEW!

01. Sold My Soul To Yo Mama
02. Breaking The Habit (Live)
03. Standing In The Middle (feat. Motion Man)
04. Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down (Live)
05. Wish (Live)
06. One Step Closer (feat. Jonathan Davis von KoRn - Live)

LINKIN PARK UNDERGROUND V.3.0

01. Don't Stay (Live)
02. Figure.09 (Live)
03. With You (Live)
04. By Myself (Live)
05. A Place For My Head (Live)

LINKIN PARK UNDERGROUND V.2.0

01. A.06
02. With You (Live)
03. Pts.Of.Athrty (Crystal Method Remix)
04. Dedicated
05. High Voltage (Live)
06. My December

HYBRID THEORY EP

01. Carousel
02. Technique
03. Step Up
04. And One
05. High Voltage
06. Part Of Me

XERO SONGS

Rhinestone
Reading My Eyes
Fuse
Stick N' Move

NO SUN TODAY (Grey Daze)

01. B12
02. What's In The Eye
03. Drag
04. Sickness
05. In Time
06. Just Like Heroin (A Little Down)
07. Sometimes
08. Hole
09. The Down Syndrome
10. Anything, Anything
11. Soul Song
12. Saturation

WAKE ME (Grey Daze)

01. What's In The Eye
02. Spin
03. Morei Sky
04. Wake Me
05. Starting To Fly
06. Sometimes
07. Holding You
08. Hole
09. Believe Me
10. Here, Nearby
11. She Shines
12. Shouting Out

SONGTEXTE

QWERTY (BEHIND YOUR LIES) BRANDNEUER SONG!

DIRT OFF YOUR SHOULDER/LYING FROM YOU

I ordered a frappuccino, where's my fuckin' frappuccino!?

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’t 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’ll 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)

If you feeling like a pimp, nigga go on, brush your shoulders off
Ladies is pimps too, go on, brush your shoulders off
Nigga's is crazy baby, don't forget that boy told you, get that dirt off your shoulders
You gotta get that dirt off your shoulders

I probably owe it to y'all
Probably be locked by the force
Tryin to hustle some things
There I go with the porsch
Feeling no remorse
Feeling like my hand was forced
Middle finger to the law
Nigga, gripping my balls
Said, the ladies they love me,
From the bleachers they screaming
All the ballers is bouncing
They like the way I be leanin'
All the rappers be hatin'
Off the track that I'm makin'
But all the hustlers, they love it
Just to see one of us make it
Came from the bottom of bottom
To the top of the pops
Nigga London, Japan
And I'm straight up the block
Like a running back, get it man
I'm straight off the block
I could run it back nigga cuz I'm straight with the ROC

If you feeling like a pimp, nigga go on, brush your shoulders off
Ladies is pimps too, go on, brush your shoulders off
Nigga's is crazy baby, don't forget that boy told you, get that dirt off your shoulders
You gotta get that dirt off your shoulders
You gotta get that dirt off your shoulders
You gotta get that dirt off your shoulders
You gotta get that dirt off your shoulders

Ya homie holdin' position
In the kitchen with soda
I just whipped up a watch
Tryin to get me a rover
Tryin to stretch out the coka
Like a wrestler, yes sir
Keep the heckler close
You know them smokers'll test ya
But like, 52 cards went out
I’m through dealing now
52 bars come out
Now you feel 'em now
52 cars roll out
Remove ceiling in case
52 broads come out
Now you chillin with a boss bitch
Of course, SC on the sleeve
At the forty-forty club
ESPN on the screen
I paid a grip for the jeans
Plus the slippers is clean
No chrome on the wheels
I'm a baller for real
Chill

I remember what they taught to me
Remember condescending talk for who I ought to be
Remember listening to all of that and this again
So I pretended up a person who was fittin’ in
And now you think this person really is me and I’m
(Trying to bend the truth)
The more I push the more I’m pulling away cuz 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
The very worst part of you is me

This isn’t what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This
This isn’t what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This
This isn’t what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This
This isn’t what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me
Like This

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 cuz I can see
(No no turning back now)
The very worst part of you
The very worst part of you is me

Biatch!

BIG PIMPIN'/PAPERCUT

Hahaha, wasting your talent Randy!
Yeah, you're ready?

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

Come on!

Why does it look like night today?
Something insides is 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 they lie
A face that laughs everytime they fall
(And watches everything)
So you know that when it's time to sink or swim
That 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

You know I - thug 'em, fuck 'em, love 'em, leave 'em
Cause I don't fuckin' need em
Take 'em out the hood, keep 'em lookin' good
But I don't fuckin' feed 'em
First time they fuss I'm breezin'
Talkin 'bout, "What's the reasons?"
I'm a pimp in every sense of the word, bitch
Better trust than believe' em
In the cut where I keep 'em
'til I need a nut, 'til I need to beat the guts
Then it's, beep beep and I'm pickin' 'em up
Let 'em play with the dick in the truck
Many chicks wanna put Jigga fist in cuffs
Divorce him and split his bucks
Just because you got good head, I'm a break bread
So you can be livin' it up? Shit I
Parts with nothin', y'all be frontin'
Me give my heart to a woman?
Not for nothin', never happen
I'll be forever mackin'
Heart cold as assassins, I got no passion
I got no patience
And I hate waitin'
Hoe get yo' ass in
And let's ri-i-i-i-i-ide
check 'em out now
ri-i-i-i-i-ide, yeah
And let's ri-i-i-i-i-ide
check 'em out now
ri-i-i-i-i-ide, yeah

We doin'
big pimpin', we spendin' G's
Check 'em out now
Big pimpin', on B.L.A.D.'s
We doin'
big pimpin' up in N.Y.C.
It's just that Jigga Man, Pimp C, and B.U.N.B
Yo yo yo
big pimpin', spendin' G's
We doin'
big pimpin', on B.L.A.D.'s
We doin'
big pimpin' up in N.Y.C.
It's just that Jigga Man, Pimp C, and B.U.N.B-B-B

JIGGA WHAT/FAINT

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

NUMB/ENCORE

Yeah
Thank you, thank you, thank you, you're far too kind
Wooooo! Ha! Uh! Woo! Ready? Woo! Woo! Woo!
Lets go

Now can I get an encore, do you want more?
Cookin' raw with the Brooklyn boy
So for one last time I need y'all to roar

Now what the hell are you waiting for?
After me, there shall be no more
So for one last time nigga make some noise

Get 'em Jay

Who you know fresher than Hov'? Riddle me that
The rest of y'all know where I'm lyrically at
Can't none of y'all mirror me back
Yeah hearin' me rap is like hearin' G rap in his prime
I'm, young H.O. rap's grateful dead
Back to take over the globe, now break bread
I'm in, Boeing jets, Global Express
Out the country but the blueberry still connect
On the low but the yacht got a triple deck
But when you young, what the fuck you expect? Yep, yep
Grand openin', grand closin'
God your man Hov' cracked the can open again
Who you gon' find doper than him with no pen
just draw off inspiration (-tion)
Soon you gon' see you can't replace him (him)
with cheap imitations for these generations

Now can I get an encore, do you want more?
Cookin' raw with the Brooklyn boy
So for one last time I need y'all to roar (roar, roar)

Now what the hell are you waiting for?
After me, there shall be no more
So for one last time nigga make some noise

What the hell are you waiting for?

Look what you made me do, look what I made for you
Knew if I paid my dues, how will they pay you
When you first come in the game, they try to play you
Then you drop a couple of hits, look how they wave to you
From Marcy to Madison Square
To the only thing that matters in just a matter of years (yea)
As fate would have it, Jay's status appears
to be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye
When I come back like Jordan, wearin the 4-5
It ain't to play games wit'chu
It's to aim at you, probably maim you
If I owe you I'm blowin you to smithereens
Cocksucker take one for your team
And I need you to remember one thing (one thing)
I came, I saw, I conquered
From record sales, to sold out concerts
So muh'fucker if you want this encore
I need you to scream, 'til your lungs get sore

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
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
I've 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
Now can I get an encore, do you want more?
I've become so numb
So for one last time I need y'all to roar
One last time I need y'all to roar

IZZO/IN THE END

This is fun
Ladies and gentlemen, put our hands together for the astonishing...

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 8th wonder of the world
The flow o' the century... always timeless... HOV!
Thank you for comin' out tonight
You could'a been anywhere in the world, but you're here with us
We appreciate that... uh!

H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
Was herbin' 'em in the home of the terrapins
Got it dirt cheap for them
Plus if they was short wit' cheese I would work wit' them
Boy and we got rid of that dirt for them
Wasn't born hustlers I was burpin' 'em
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' sheezy my neezy keep my arms so breezy
Can't leave rap alone the game needs me
Haters want me clapped in chrome it ain't easy
Cops wanna knock me, D.A. wanna box me in
But somehow, I beat them charges like Rocky
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Not guilty, he who does not feel me is not real to me
Therefore he doesn't exist
So poof... vamoose son of a bitch

H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Fo' shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in VA
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
That's the anthem get'cha damn hands up
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
Not guilty ya'll gotta feel me
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A (Check it out)
Yo, 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
I didn’t look out below
I watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on and didn’t even know
I 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

H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
LP, Jay-Z, Help me out
They havin' a good old time out there
It starts with
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
LP, Jay-Z, Help me out
They havin' a good old time out there
It starts with
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
LP, Jay-Z, Help me out
Yeah, yeah, yes it's here ladys and gentleman
It starts with
H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A

POINTS OF AUTHORITY/99 PROBLEMS/ONE STEP CLOSER

If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me!

He's got the rap patrol on the gat patrol
Foes who wanna make sure his casket's closed
Rap critics that say he's "Money Cash Hoes"
He's from the hood stupid what type of facts are those
If you grew up with holes in your zapitos
You'd be celebratin' the minute you was havin' doe
So fuck critics you can kiss our whole assholes
You don't like our lyrics you can press fast forward
Beef with radio if we don't play they show
They don't play our hits well we don't give a shit, so
All these mags trying to use our ass
So advertisers can give em more cash for ads...fuckers
I don't know what you take us as
Or understand the intellegence that Jay-Z has
From rags to ritches, we ain't dumb
We got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me!

99 problems but a bitch ain't one
If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

The year is '94 and in my trunk is raw
In my rear view mirror is the mother fuckin' law
I got two choices ya'll pull over the car or
Bounce on the devil put the pedal to the floor
Now I ain't tryin to see no highway chase with jake
Plus I got a few dollars I can fight the case
So I , Pull over to the side of the road
And I heard "Son do you know why I 'm stoppin' you for?"
Cause I 'm young and I 'm black and my hats real low
Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some mo?
"Well you was doin fifty five in a fifty four"
"Liscense and regestration and step out of the car"
"Are you carryin' a weapon on you I know alot of you are"
I ain't steppin' out of shit all my papers legit
"Do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?"
Well my glove compartment is locked so is the trunk and the back
And I know my rights so you gon' need a warrant for that
"Aren't you sharp as a tack (Yep!) you some type of lawyer or something?"
"Or somebody important or somethin'?"
Nah I ain't pass the bar but I know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit
"Well see how smart you are when the canines come"
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me!

99 problems but a bitch ain't one
If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me!
99 problems but a bitch ain't one
If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me!

99 problems but a bitch ain't one
If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

Now once upon a time not too long ago
A nigga like myself had to strong arm a hoe
This is not a hoe in the sense of havin' a pussy
But a pussy havin no God damn sense, try and push me
I tried to ignore him and talk to the Lord
Pray for him, cause some fools just love to perform
You know the type loud as a motor bike
But wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight
The only thing that's gonna happen is im'ma get to clappin'
He and his boys gon be yappin' to the captain
And there I go traped in the kit kat again
Back through the system with the riff raff again
Fiends on the floor scratchin' again
Paparatzi's with they cameras snappin' them
D.A. tred to give the nigga the shaft again
Half-a-mil for bail 'cause I'm African
All because ths fool was harrasin' them
Tryin to play the boy like hes saccarin'
But ain't nothin sweet 'bout how I hold my gun
I got 99 problems but this bitch ain't one

99 problems but a bitch ain't one
If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me
99 problems but a bitch ain't one
If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me

Shut up when I'm talking to you
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 break

Everything you say to me
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me
I need a little room to breathe
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me
Everything you say to me
I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
Hit me
I need a little room to breathe
I got 99 problems
And I 'm about to break

DON'T STAY

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

Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
Just give me myself back
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

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 don’t need you anymore, don’t want to be ignored
I don’t need one more day, of you wasting me away
I don’t need you anymore, I don’t want to be ignored
I don’t need one more day, of you wasting me away
With no apologies

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

SOMEWHERE I BELONG

When this began
I had nothing to say
And I 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 wanna heal
I wanna feel what
I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain
I’ve felt so long
Erase all the pain till it’s gone
I wanna heal
I wanna feel like I’m
Close to something real
I wanna 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
And the fault is my own

I wanna heal
I wanna feel what
I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain
I’ve felt so long
Erase all the pain till it’s gone
I wanna heal
I wanna feel like I’m
Close to something real
I wanna find something
I’ve wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

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 till
I break away from me
I will break away
I'll find myself today

I wanna heal
I wanna feel what
I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain
I’ve felt so long
Erase all the pain till it’s gone
I wanna heal
I wanna feel like I’m
Close to something real
I wanna find something
I’ve wanted all along
Somewhere I belong

I wanna heal
I wanna feel like
I’m somewhere I belong
I wanna heal
I wanna feel like
I’m somewhere I belong
Somewhere I belong

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 ‘cuz 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 me 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
‘Cuz 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
‘Cuz 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
‘Cuz I can see (no, no turning back now)
The very worst part of you
The very worst part of you is me…

This isn’t what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me like this
This isn’t what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me (like this)
This isn’t what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me (like this)
This isn’t what I wanted to be
I never thought that what I said would have you running from me (like this)

You (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
‘Cuz I can see (no, no turning back now)
The very worst part of you
The very worst part of you is me

HIT THE FLOOR

There are just too many times when people have tried to look inside of me
Wondering what I think of you and I protect you out of courtesy
Too many times that I've held on but when I needed to push away
Afraid to say what was on my mind, Afraid to say what I need to say
Too many things that you said about me when I'm not around
You think havin' the upper hand means you gotta keep puttin' me down
Well I got so many stand-offs with you it's about as much as I can stand
So I'm waitin' until the upper hand is mine

One minute you're up top
the next you're not watch it drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute you're up top
the next you're not
missed your shot
making your heart stop
you think you won
And then it's all gone

So many people like me put so much trust in all your lies
So concerned with what you think to just say what we feel inside
So many people like me walk on eggshells all day long
All I know is that all I want is to feel like I'm not stepped on
There are so many things you say that make me feel you cross the line
What goes up will surely fall and I am counting down the time
Cause I've had so many stand-offs to you it's about as much as I can stand
So I'm waitin' until the upper hand is mine

One minute you're up top
the next you're not watch it drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute you're up top
the next you're not
missed your shot
making your heart stop
you think you won
And then it's all gone

And then it's all gone
And then it's all gone
And then it's all gone
Now it's all gone

I know I'll never trust a single thing you say
You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway
And all the lies have got you floating up above us all,
But what goes up has got to fall

One minute you're up top
the next you're not watch it drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute you're up top
the next you're not
missed your shot
making your heart stop
you think you won
And then it's all gone

And then it's all gone
And then it's all gone
And then it's all gone
Now it's all gone

EASIER TO RUN

It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It’s so much easier to go
Then face this pain here all alone

Something has been taken from deep inside of me
The secret I’ve kept locked away noone 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

[Mike’s part]
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 the shame to the grave
It's easier to run replacing this pain with something numb
It’s so much easier to go
Then 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

[Mike’s part]
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 the 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

It's easier to run replacing this pain with something numb
It’s so much easier to run
Then 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 run

If I could change I would
Take all 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 the shame to the grave
ld:::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

[Mike’s part]
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 the shame to the grave


Just watch it in the sun
All of the helplessness since i've
Pretending I don’t feel misplaced
It’s so much simpler to change

It's easier to run replacing this pain with something wrong
It’s so much easier to run
Then 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 run

If I could change I would
Take all 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 the shame to the grave

FAINT

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
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 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

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(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
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
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

FIGURE.09

Nothin’ ever stops all these thoughts n’ the pain attached to them
Sometimes I wonder why this is happenin’
It's like nothin’ I can do would distract me when
I think of how I shot myself in the back again
‘Cuz from the infinite words I can say I
Put all pain you gave to me on display
But didn't realize instead of settin’ it free I
Took what I hated and made it a part of me

never goes away [x2]

And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you

Hearin’ your name the memories come back again
I remember when it started happenin’
I see you n’ every thought I had and then
The thoughts slowly found words attached to them
And I knew as they escaped away
I was committin’ myself to em n’ everyday
I regret sayin’ those things ‘cuz now I see that I
Took what I hated and made it a part of me

It never goes away [x2]

And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you

It never goes away [x4]

Get away from me!
Give me my space back you gotta just
Go!
Everything comes down the memories of
You!
I Kept it in without lettin’ you
Know!
I Let you go so get away from
Me!
Give me my space back you gotta just
Go!
Everything comes down the memories of
You!
I Kept it in without lettin’ you
Know!
I Let you go

And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you
I've let myself become you
I've let myself become lost inside these thoughts of you
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you

BREAKING THE HABIT

Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Unless I try to start again

I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cuz inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight

Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I have no options left again

I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cuz inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight

I'll paint it on the walls
Cuz I'm the one that falls
I'll never fight again
and this is how it ends

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
to show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
I'm Breaking the habit tonight

FROM THE INSIDE

I 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

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

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

Take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
Cause I swear for the last time
I won’t trust myself with you
I won’t waste myself on you!!!
You!!!
You!!!
Waste myself on you!!!
You!!!
You!!!

I’ll take everything from the inside
And throw it all away
‘Cause I swear for the last time
I won’t trust myself with you
Everything from the inside
And just throw it all away
‘Cause I swear for the last time
I won’t trust myself with you
You
You
You

NOBODY'S LISTENING

Yo. Peep the style and the kids checkin for it
The number one question is how could you ignore it
And drop right back in the cut
Over basement tracks with rap sack
Got you backin' us up like rewind that
We just rollin’ with the rhythm
Fast from the ashes of stylist division
With these nonstop lyrics of life livin
Not to be forgotten but still unforgiven
When in the mean time there are those who wanna talk
This and that so what suppose that
It gets to the point to where feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt
It goes

I 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, handfull of anger
Held in my chest
And everything left is waste of time
I hate my rhymes, but hate everyone else’s more
Im riding on the back of this pressure
Guessing that its better I can’t keep myself together
Because all of this stress gave me something to write on
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 the trash talking and the people it was to
And the people that started it just like you.

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, handfull of anger
Held in my chest
Uphill stuggle, blood , sweat and tears, nothing to gain
Everything to fear
(repeat)

Heart full of pain...


Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me
Told I 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
Handfull of anger, Held in my chest
Nobody's listening
Uphill struggle, blood, sweat, and tears
Nobody's listening
Nothin' to gain, everything to fear
Nobody's listening

NUMB

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
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
I've 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 controlFrgt/10
06. P5hng Me A*wy
07. Plc.4 Mie Head
08. X-ecutioner Style
09. H! Vltg3
10. [Riff Raff]
11. Wth>You
12. Ntr\Mssion
13. Ppr:Kut
14. Rnw@y
15. My{Dsmbr
16. [Stef]
17. By_Myslf
18. Kyur4 Th Ich
19. 1stp Klosr
20. Krwlng
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

I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I've 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
I've 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
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be

PTS.OF.ATHRTY

Forfeit the game, before somebody takes you out of the frame

Put your name to shame, cover up your face
You can't run the race, the pace is too fast, you just won't last
Wont last (repeat to fade)

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 x2
You have to act like you're someone x2
You want someone to hurt like you x2
You wanna share what you've been through x2
Learned (repeat to fade)

You love the things, I say I'll do
The way I 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 x2
You have to act like you're someone x2
You want someone to hurt like you x2
You wanna' share what you've been through
You live what you've learned

Forfeit the game, before somebody takes you out of the frame
Put 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 takes you out of the frame
Put your name to shame, cover up your face
You can't run the race, the pace is too fast, you just won't last
Wont last (repeat to fade)

You like to think you're never wrong x2
You have to act like you're someone x2
You want someone to hurt like you x2
You wanna share what you've been through x2
You like to think you're never wrong x2
You have to act like you're someone x2
You want someone to hurt like you x2
You wanna share what you've been through
You live what you've learned

ENTH E ND

Hey yo when this first started off it was just Linkin Park
And then in the middle came Motion Man
And at the end of it all it was Kutmasta Kurt with a remix

Hey yo one thing I don't know why it doesn't matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind I designed this ryme when I was obsessed with time
All I know, time was just slipping away and I watch the count down until the end of the day
Watch that watched me and the words that I say thet echoe of the clock rythem in my veins
I know that I didn't look out below and I watch the time go right out the window
Trying to grab hold, trying not to watch I wasted it all on the hands of the clock
But in the end no matter what I pretend the journey is more important than the start
And what it ment to be will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard

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

Yo one thing, 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 to so-socialize like the host of the party
All for shake and made eye contact
Party control showing all that
Northeast, southwest coast
Staring out the window, no opportunity to mingle
I tried to show her, if you could just sense a middle disorder
I brought you back of the thing
Like the imaginary man of your dreams
Well, you would always seem to make it worth it
A pig skin I never nerfed it
you felt lovin, I never applied a room
without bringing the plan
by any means and means of leaving you teens,
of all those teenage scenes, I tried so hard

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

Linkin park (remix) Mo Mo Mo Motion Man
Linkin park, in the end, Kutmasta Kutmasta Kut Kutmasta Kurt
Linkin park (remix) Mo Mo Motion Man
Linkin park, in the end, Kutmasta Kurt

One thing I don't know how
It doesn't even matter when you look at it now
Because when I designed this rhyme I was scared of it all
Scared to fall, I hadn't even tried to crawl
And I was forced to run, with you mocking me
Stopping me, back stabbing me constantly
Remembering all those times you fought with me
Watch the clock now chop full of hypocrisy
And now your mouth wishes it could inhale
Every single little thing you said to make things fail
Every single word you sputter just to get your piece, but it really doesn't matter to me
Because from the start to the end no matter what I pretend
The journey is more important than the end or the start
And what it meant to me will eventually be
A memory of the time when I tried so hard

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

[CHALI]

What’s up?
You’ve reached Mike
Give me a detailed m
Please enter your pass
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

FRGT/10

We're stuck in a place so dark, you could hardly see

A manner of matter that splits with the words I breathe
And as the rain drips acidic questions around me
I block out the sight of the powers that be
Duck away into the darkness, times up
I wind up in a rusted world with eyes shut
So tight that it blurs into the world of pretend
And the eyes ease open and it's dark again

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core, I'm forgotten
In the middle of my thoughts
Taken far from my safety
The picture's there
The memory won't escape me
By why should I care

In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up...

Listen to the sound, dizzy from the ups and downs
And nauseated by the polluted rock that's all around
Watchin the wheels of cars that pass I look past
To the last of the light and the long shadows it casts
A window grows and captures the eye
And cries out yellow light as it passes me by
And a young shadowy figure sits in front of a box
Inside a building of rocks with antennas on top
Now, nothing can stop in this land of the pain
The same lose, not knowing they were part of the game
And while the insides change, the box stays the same
And the figure inside could bear anybody's name
The memories I keep are from a time like then
I put on my paper so I could come back to them
Someday I'm hopin to close my eyes and pretend
That this crumpled up paper can be perfect again

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core, I'm forgotten
In the middle of my thoughts
Taken far from my safety
The picture's there
The memory won't escape me

I'm here at this podium talking, the ceremonial offerings
Dedicated to urban dysfunctional offspring
What's happening? city governments are eternally napping
Trapped in greedy covenants, causin urban collapsing
Bullets that scar souls, with dark holds, get more than your car stole
Some hearts be blacker than charcoal
For real, this society's deprivation depends
Not on our differences, but the separation within
No preparation is made, limited age, and minimum wage
Livin in a tenement cage for innocent pay
Tragedy within a parade,
The darkness overspreads like apermanent plague,
I'm forgotten

In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up

P5HNG ME A*WY

When I look into your eyes

There's nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes
Staring back at me



Everything has to end, you'll soon find, we're outta 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, we're outta time, left to watch it 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 the people who never frown eventually break down
Everything has to end, you'll soon find, we're outta time, left to watch it all unwind
For 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
You're still so blind to me



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
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 outta time, left to watch it all unwind
The sacrifice is never knowing

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

Reverse physiology’s failing miserably
It's so hard to be, left all alone
Telling you is the only chance for me
There’s nothing left but, to turn and face you
When I look into your eyes, there's nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes staring back at me
Asking why...
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie why
The sacrifice is never knowing

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

PLC.4 MIE HEAD

I wanna be in another place,

I hate when you say you don’t understand,
I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy, a place for my head.

I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night,
Shining with the light from the sun,
The sun doesn’t give light to the moon,
Assuming the moons gonna owe it one,
And makes think of how you act to me, you do favors that rapidly,
You just turn around and start asking me about things 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’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 wanna be in another place, I hate when you say you don’t understand,
I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy, a place for my head.
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna

Two Two Three Three Ya Ya Ya
Gimme energon to keep me calm
You and your mom keep on the drom
Used to be a team, passed that baton
But you flop that bod as you drop that bomb
Take it to the john in your babylon
Flushed down with the sound that you carry on.
I don't really give a dang you pissed on my lawn
Took a dump like a punk now the battles on.

So sick of you stressin'
Sick of you fessin'
Sick of you actin' like I owe you some
Find another place to feed your face
If you don't we gonna bump, get it up, get crunk.

Sick of you stressin'
Sick of you fessin'
Sick of you actin' like I owe you some
Find another place to feed your face
If you don't we gonna bump, get it up, get crunk.

I wanna be in another place, I hate when you say you don’t understand,
I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy, a place for my head.
You try to get the best of me, go away, go away, go away,
you try to take the best of me, go away (repeat to end)

X-ECUTIONER STYLE

From the top

Shut up x3
Shut up (when i'm talking to you)
Shut up x4

I'm about to...

Wasnt that fun, lets try something else

Forty five caliber killa but outta the filla
Dela villa gonna show yall brothers how you not a gorilla
Smooth talking fully automatic weapon concilla
Taste thriller, break thriller, lets hit em' with the bounce filla
Filthy stinkin standin on solid ground
Still be sinkin submerging and the parks
Still be Linkin pluck beef when its starts, fuck what your thinking, its not a mirage
Im in a mother fuckin tractor from out of the garage
With an if through the duck, but its hard to dodge
In the back of that spine where my dogs' lie
Gonna flip it straight up rippin apart ya squad
X to the ecutioner style, cuts and blends
Like a syringe hangin you from each of ya limbs
See me comin through ya party hard
Without no bodyguard
Smoking something stompin on each of ya Tims
Im the B to the L the A the C king
And when it come to planning the thought to keep thinking man

Shut up x8

H! VLTG3

Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes....


Hybrid
I've been diggin in crates ever since I was livin in space
Before the rat race, before monkeys had you in traits
I mastered numerology, big band theology, performed lobotomies with telekanetic psychology
Invented the mic to so I can start blessin it
Chin-checkin' kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I twist my chords like double helixes to show them what I'm made of
I buckle knees like leg braces, cast a spell of instrumentalist on all of you MC's who hate us
So you can try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on
From now to infinite, let icon be bygones
I fire bombs, ghostly notes haunt this
I tried threats, but moved on to a promise
I stomp shit with or without an accomplice
And run the guantlett with whoever that wants this

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

I've put a kink in the backbones, of clones, with microphones
Never satisfied my rhymes jones
Spraying bright day over what you might say
My blood types krylon, Technicolor type A
On highways write with road rage
Cages a win, cages a tin, that bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scenes
Subliminal gangrene paintings, over all the same things
Sing songs karaoke copy bullshit
Break bones verbally with sticks and stones tactics
Forth dimension, compact convention
Write rhymes with ease while the track stands at attention
Men to put you away, with the pencil
Pistol, official, sixteen line, a rhyme missile
While you risk your all
I pick out at your flaws
Singing rah blah, blah, blah you can say you saw

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

Who's the man, the man in your ha on to a promise
I stomp shit with or without an accomplice
And run the guantlett with whoever that wants this

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

I've put a kink in the backbones, of clones, with microphones
Never satisfied my rhymes jones
Spraying bright day over what you might say
My blood types krylon, Technicolor type A
On highways write with road rage
Cages a win, cages a tin, that bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scenes
Subliminal gangrene paintings, over all the same things
Sing songs karaoke copy bullshit
Break bones verbally with sticks and stones tactics
Forth dimension, compact convention
Write rhymes with ease while the track stands at attention
Men to put you away, with the pencil
Pistol, official, sixteen line, a rhyme missile
While you risk your all
I pick out at your flaws
Singing rah blah, blah, blah you can say you saw

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

Who's the man, the man in your hand over your land
Roving over man's bolding when he's jammin your plans ova
I am vics clorousos, the most ferocious
When I spy my third eye, it's extremely high voltage
That's why I need ruby corks glasses, cause when I glance at the chest
Then I might blast the masses
Subliminals translated through piano
Integrated in flow, calculated to nano
My IU skills are when I mean plea sees the rhyme I hear as I proceed through time
I walk through the walls and the inanimate obstacles
While educed to the reduction of cells and molecules
I bring the knowledge the you swallow like the state of hologram
I bot your head, fat your lip like collagen
A telepath of the another verse with no postage
Mike Shinoda, we are high voltage

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin' you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

RIFF RAFF

Next message
Hey, Mike, what’s up?
This is Roc, 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

WTH>YOU

Come on


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
With you
You, now I see, even when I close my eyes
With you
You, now I see, keeping everything inside
With you
You, now I see, even when I close my eyes
With you

I hit you and you hit me back
And we fall to the floor
The rest of the day stands still
Fine line between this and that
But 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

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
With you
You, now I see, even when I close my eyes
With you
You, now I see, keeping everything inside
With you
You, now I see, even when I close my eyes

No
I wont let you control my fate while I’m holding the weight of the world on my conscience
No
I wont just sit here and wait while you weighin your options
You’re makin a fool of me
No
You didn’t dare to try and say you don’t care
And solemnly swear not to follow me there
No
It ain't like me to beg on my knees
Or, please oh baby please
That’s not how I’m doin things
No
No I’m not upset, no I’m not angry
I know love is love and love sometimes, it doesn’t pay me
No
I'm never without you, I’ll always be with you
You'll never forget me, I’m keeping you with me
No
I wont let you take me to the end of my rope
Or keep burning and torching my soul
No
No I’m not your puppet
And no, no, no, I wont let you go

No, no matter how far we've come
I can't wait to see tomorrow
No matter how far we've come
I, I can't wait to see tomorrow

With you
You, now I see, keeping everything inside
With you
You, now I see, even when I close my eyes
With you
You, now I see, keeping everything inside
With you
You, now I see, even when I close my eyes

NTR\MSSION

Finally recover
When the mood is right
Looking up into a neon sky
Time the mean takes over
Guess it's been too long
Since the last time that I tried to fly

[Chorus:]
Finally I find
When I lose control
Inside my body crumbles
It's like therapy
For my broken soul
Inside my body crumbles

Only needs a moment
Just to get away
Hope the stress won't mess up every day
No one final question
And I never doubt
Everything is gonna be okay

[Chorus]

Insecure would be my sign
(I don't know if I'll be alright, I don't know if I'll be alright)
I'll never have to hide
(I don't know if I'll be alright, I don't know if I'll be alright)
Try to live right
(I don't know if I'll be alright, Now I know it's)
It's alright

Finally I find
When I lose control
Inside my body crumbles
It's like therapy
For my broken soul
Inside my body

[Chorus]

PPR:KUT

Why does it feel like night today

Something in here’s not right today
Why I am 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
Like a face that I hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
Face that watches every time I lie
Face that laughs every time I fall
and watches everything
So I know that when its time to sink or swim
The face inside is hearing me right beneath my skin

Its like I’m paranoid looking over my back
It’s like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin

Hey yo, here we go again with the pain I feel isn't real but in my mind
But I find myself in places with names, but not faces
My memory races at speeds hundred degrees
My soul it bleeds devil must’ve planted the seed
Now it feels like my backs against the wall, I’m taking the fall
Whenever I call nobody's responding at all
But I don't who I could trust they screaming my name
I need somebody to help me out of the flame
all I’m tryin to do is just master me all I want to do is smoke a blaster beat
but something keeps talking to me consciously
responsibly it keeps haunting me
From dusk till dawn
Everything has something for ya
That voice inside of your head got to projected, Paranoia
cold sweat.
Shining on your face exposing your purpose and if I
ripped off your skin I’d probably find another verse
Its nothin worse than trying to bring yourself up back from the dead
so I advise you listen to that voice in the back of your head

Its like I’m paranoid looking over my back
It’s like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I’m hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin

the face inside is right beneath your skin x4
The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me x3

Its like I’m paranoid looking over my back
It’s like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I’m hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin
in

Hey yo, here we go again with the pain I feel isn't real but in my mind
But I find myself in places with names, but not faces
My memory races at speeds hundred degrees
My soul it bleeds devil must’ve planted the seed
Now it feels like my backs against the wall, I’m taking the fall
Whenever I call nobody's responding at all
But I don't who I could trust they screaming my name
I need somebody to help me out of the flame
all I’m tryin to do is just master me all I want to do is smoke a blaster beat
but something keeps talking to me consciously
responsibly it keeps haunting me
From dusk till dawn
Everything has something for ya
That voice inside of your head got to projected, Paranoia
cold sweat.
Shining on your face exposing your purpose and if I
ripped off your skin I’d probably find another verse
Its nothin worse than trying to bring yourself up back from the dead
so I advise you listen to that voice in the back of your head

Its like I’m paranoid looking over my back
It’s like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I’m hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin

the face inside is right beneath your skin x4
The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me x3

Its like I’m paranoid looking over my back
It’s like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I’m hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin

Its like I’m paranoid looking over my back
It’s like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I’m hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin

RNW@Y

Graffiti sky, sky, sky

I don't think you all ready

Graffiti decorations under a sky of gray
This constant apprehension still giving me away
The lessons I've forgotten
Inside of all I've learned
Now I find myself in question
point the finger at me again
Guilty by association
point the finger at me again

i wunna run away [never say goodbye]
wanna no the truth [ instead of wondaring why]
wanna no the answers [ no more lies]
wanna no the truth [ no more lies]
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind x3

Paper bags and angry voices under a sky of gray
This constant apprehension won't seem to go away
All my talk of starting over
These words were never true
Now I find myself in question
point the finger at me again
I'm guilty by association
point the finger at me again

I wanna runaway x2
I wanna know the truth x2
I wanna know the answers x2
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind x3

Gonna runaway, gonna runaway
Gonna runaway, gonna runaway
Runaway (repeated)
Ya'll not ready

Hey yo
I don’t think ya'll ready for what I'm about to do
Y'all new school dudes ain't even got no clue
How dare you forget about Bam and Zulu
Two urban jazz DJ's they paved the way
Let me spit it to y'all who said I wasn't gonna make it
Every time I blaze it, ya'll the first to hate it
My team rains supreme and stays strong
Every 2 series son, they scared to put us on
Can't get with the high prince, get off your atis
Too many of y'all is dyin' for us so I gotta blaze it
I'm still reppin BK, Brooklyn D and on
Hell fire and family alienation
Banging hits in the backyard
Out on the episode
I'm a little kid named
Phoenix Orion

I wanna runaway x2
I wanna know the truth x2
I wanna know the answers x2
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind x3

MY{DSMBR

This is my December, This is my time of the year

This is my December, This is all so clear

Just wish that I didn’t feel like there was something I missed
Give it all away
Just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed
Give it all away

This is my December, This is my snow covered home
This is my December, This is me alone

And I Just wish that I didn’t feel like there was something I missed
And I Take back all the things I said to make you feel like that
And I Just wish that I didn’t feel like there was something I missed
And I Take back all the things that I said to you

And I, give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone to come home to

This is my December, These are my snow covered dreams
This is me pretending, this is all I need

And I Just wish that I didn’t feel like there was something I missed
And I Take back all the things I said to make you feel like that
And I Just wish that I didn’t feel like there was something I missed
And I Take back all the things that I said to you

And I, give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone to come home to

This is my December, This is my time of the year
This is my December, This is all so clear

Give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone to come home to

Give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone to come home to

[STEF]

Next message
Yo, what 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

BY_MYSLF

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

KYUR4 TH ICH

I’d like to introdu—
We here
We here at the sound institute have invented a reliable audio-weapons system
Let’s
Let’s try
Let’s try something else
Folks, we have a very special guest for you tonight
Break it down
Calling all freaks
Using the waves of sound
The true master paralyzes his opponent
Leaving him vulnerable to attack
Mister Hahn

1STP KLOSR

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 rightly, concurring, balmy night
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

KRWLNG

PAPERCUT

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
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

Just like before...

Every thing 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!
Every thing 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!

Shut up when im talking to you!
Shut up! shut up! shut up!
Shut up when im talking to you!
Shut up! shut up! shut up! shut up!
I'm about to break

Every thing 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 im about to break!
(x2)

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

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
Wont 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 you
My life my pride is broken

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

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)

CRAWLING

Crawling in my skin
Consuming all I feel
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 i’m convinced
There's just too much pressure to take]
I've felt this way before
So insecure

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how i fall
Confusing what is real

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
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
[without a sense of confidence i'm convinced
That there's just too much pressure to take]
I've felt this way before
So insecure...

Crawling in my skin
consuming all i feel
Fear is how i fall
Confusing what is real

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 what is real

(this lack of self control i fear is never ending
Controlling,) confusing what is real

RUNAWAY

graffiti decorations
Under 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]

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
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

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
Now i find myself in question
[they point the finger at me again]
Guilty by association
[you point the finger at me again]

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
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

I gonna run away
And never say goodbye...
(Gonna runaway)x4
I gonna run away
And never wonder why...
(Gonna runaway)x4
I gonna run away
And open up my mind...

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
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

I wanna run away
And open up my mind
I wanna run away
And open up my mind
I wanna run away
And open up my mind
I wanna run away
And open up my mind

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 streached 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]

[x2]
I ask why, but in my mind
I find I can’t rely on myself

[Chorus:]
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 [myself]

[x2]
I ask why, but in my mind
I find I can’t rely on myself

[Chorus]

How do you think I’ve lost so much
I'm so afraid that 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

[x2]
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

[Chorus x2]

IN THE END

it starts with
One thing, i don't know why
It doesn't even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain due time
All i know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down 'till the end of the day
Clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
You didn't look out below,
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryn' to hold on
Didn't even know, i wasted it all
Just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though i tried
It all fell apart
What it's meant to be
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, to loose it all...
But in the end, it doesn't even matter...

One thing, i don't know why
It doesn't even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To remind myself
How i tried so hard...
Despite 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 be, 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, to loose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter

I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far, as i can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know

I've put my trust, in you
Pushed as far as i can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know...
I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to loose it all,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter

A PLACE FOR MY HEAD

I watch how the
Moon sits in the sky on a dark night
Shining with the light from the sun
but the sun doesn't give the light to the moon to 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 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 wanna 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
Over 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
And now you see
How quiet 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
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

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 shut looking through the rust and rot and dust
A small spot of light floods the floor
And pours over the rusted world of pretend
The eyes ease open and its 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 behind
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 right through you

CURE FOR THE ITCH

(unnamed announcer): folks, we have a very special guest for you tonight.
I'd like to introduce...
Mr. Hahn!
Let's hear it for the great mr. hahn!
And now a lesson in rhythm management.
Let's begin...
Alright now, wasn't that fun?
Let's try something else.

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

Pre-chorus:
[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 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
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

Pre-chorus:
[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 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
Why I never walked away
Why I played myself this way
Now I see your testing me pushes me away

CAROUSEL

She can't hide no matter how hard she tries
Her secret disguise behind the lies
And at night she cries away her pride
With eyes shut tight, and staring at her inside
All her friends know why she can't sleep at night
All her family asking if she's all right
All she wants to do is get rid of this hell
Well all she's gotta do is stop kidding herself
She can only fool herself for so long
She can only fool herself for so long
She can only fool herself for so long
I'm too weak to face me
She can only fool herself

Chorus:
I never know just why you run
So far away, far away from me
I never know just why you run
So far away, far away from me


When it comes to how to live his life
He can't be told
Says he's got it all under control
Thinks he knows it's not a problem he's stuck with
But in reality, it'd be a problem to just quit
An addict and he can't hold the reins
The pain is worse cause his friends have it the same
Tries to slow down the problem he's got
But can't get off the carousel
Until he makes it stop
He can only fool himself for so long
He can only fool himself for so long
He can only fool himself for so long
I'm too weak to face me
He can only fool himself

Chorus

Fly with me under the wings I gave you
Try to be closer to me and I'll save you
Fly with me under the wings I gave you
Try to be closer to me and I'll save you

Chorus 2X

TECHNIQUE

You must exercise the proper technique

STEP UP

Yo
Watch as the room rocks
Mentally moonwalk
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
And 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

Chorus:
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

Chorus 2X

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.

Chorus 2X

mixed media.. step up to the microphone.. and you do it like this...

AND ONE

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 have never showed 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

Spit drips from the jaw of the witless witness
Cryptic colloquialism shifts your midrift
Dark all I do embark the shadows
Involved with my thought catalog, analogue, rap catalog
Keep my distance, and fear resistance, hurt by persistance
The twisted web of tangled lies
Strangles my hope to waste and numbs the taste
And I'm forced to face these hate crimes
Against the state of being
Feeling the weight- less -ness pressed between the ceiling
Reeling around room
Riding a bubble of sound proof
It's the frequency making you
S-Shake with every boom
Involuntary muscle contraction
Ignoring and drinking musical gas fume euphoria
The sound pounds to make the dead flush
To have you a head rush with red thoughts and said stuff

HIGH VOLTAGE

Just do something to tell you who I am, ya know?

Chorus: repeat 2X
It's high voltage you can't shake the shock
Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
It's high voltage you can't shake the shock
Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out

I've been digging in the crates
Ever since I was living in space
Before the ratrace
Before monkeys had human traits
Mastered numerology
And bigbang theology
Performed lobotomies
With telekinetic psychology
Invented the mic
So I could start blessin it
And chincheckin kids to make my point
Like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I'll twist my cords
Through 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 the emcees that hate us
So 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've tried threats
But moved on to a promise
I stomp shit
With or without an accomplice
Mix media
The stamp of approval is on this

Chorus


Akira
Put a kink in the backbones
Of clones with microphones
Never satisfy my rhyme jones
Spraying bright day
Over what you might say
Blood type krylon technicolor type A
On highways write with road rage
On pages of wind
And cages of tin
That bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scene
Subliminal gangrene paintings
Overall the same things
Sing song karaoke copy madness
Break bones verbally
With sticks and stone tactics
Fourth dimension
Combat convention
Write rhymes at ease
While the tracks stand at attention
Attention
Meant to put you away
With the pencil, pistol, official
16 line rhyme missile
While you risk your all
I pick out of your flaws
Spin, rah blah blah blah
You can say you saw

Chorus 4X

PART OF ME

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
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me

Chorus:
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 calm 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 bruise
You can live if you're willing to
Put a stop to just what's killing you

Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me
Cut myself free willingly
Stop just what's killing me

Chorus

Alive in me, inside of me, a part of me screams away silently (repeats with next line)
This part of me won't go away, part of me won't go away

Everywhere I look around I see how everything aught to be
Every time I see myself there's always something wrong with me

Chorus 2X

I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside, swallowing me
I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside, swallowing me

SOLD MY SOUL TO YO MAMA

You take
You take
Away
Away

Why does it feel like night today, today, day, day, day
Something in here's not right today, today, day, day, day
Why does it feel like night today, today, day, day, day
Paranoia's all I got 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

STANDING IN THE MIDDLE

Yo
Y'all better wake up
You think we don't see ya'll driftin'
Sleepin' on the job and forgettin' your position
Sit straight and listen
What you are missin'
I cook up a batch hot straight out the kitchen
No indecision I spit right
Heavy as a fist fight
No gloves and no masks
No pain and no slack
No way to look back
Nobody to say I can't make my own path
'Cause the way that y'all act
I wanna break somethin'
Comin' at me like the pain I feel means nothin'
Comin' from a place where you can't relate
Where every word from your face comes across as fake
And I can hardly take
The way that ya'll treat us
Sendin' this out to anyone who won't believe us
Spellin' it out so y'all know the deal
And if you can't feel it maybe you can't feel

I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Man who are you?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Who... What you sayin'?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Who... what you writin'?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Man who are you?

Tell em Motion

Eat your words
Sayin' what you used to say
And act how you used to act
Everytime you heard my occupation
Was a rap attack
My conversation's stacked
I switch my defence on you
Everytime you want to get deep
You'll see my knuckle package
Born to die
Ferocious MC
Make you go back and write your rhymes
My style chokes up
Like a little league baseball player
It moves I'm stranglin' as I'm swingin'
As main mangler
I wanna D4
Poach you as your seafood is C4
I'm gonna rap are you still knee-high
Y'all wanna train with me guy
Man it's destructive
Man it's like jabs from boxing champ Lennox
Perfect for your head
I'll fit it like new era hats that
Talk of suits B-boy adequate
Express myself with my hang-side
Then I extend one finger the middle
Fuck the fourth place

I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Man who are you?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Who... What you sayin'?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Who... what you writin'?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Man who are you?

Yo Motion
Yeah?
Sometimes I feel it's like nothin' that I do is ever good enough (for real)
Like I should stop and go back to L.A.
Back away where I know I won't be seen
And nobody's gonna critique the music that I make
And mistake me for some fuckin' kid with a backpack
Rappin' on a track just to make a buck for
A mixtape that sucks and DJ's that don't get it
But I been down that road and I know
People don't wanna go
Where I might go
Don't wanna know what it's like to step outside
Your zone with a mic just controllin' the hype
And if we need to take shots from them
And be stopped by them
Just to make these ends
Then so be it
I will not hold my breath
I'm gonna spit 'til I got none left

Motion where you at?

I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Man who are you?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Who... What you sayin'?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Who... what you writin'?
I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it
Man who are you?

I'm standing in the middle of it, middle of it, middle of it, middle of it, middle of it

WISH (LIVE)

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 been twenty-six years on my way to hell
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

DEDICATED

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 heads
Take a walk with me
And what you'll see is a land
Where the sand's made of crushed up wax
And the sky beyond you is krylon blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme
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

Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancing 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 could be the commonest
We float overhead like a space odyssey monolith
Overseeing the game
Over being part of the same
Old thing it's all gonna change
In a hurricane of darkness and pain
In acidic rain and promises 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

Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancing 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

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

This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancing 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

This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancing 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 everybody with nowhere to run
Who will hide from the shadows waiting for the sun

MY DECEMBER

this is my december
This is my time of the year
This is my december
This is all so clear
This is my december
This is my snow covered home
This is my december
This is me alone
And i
Just wish that i didnt feel
Like there was something i missed
And i
Take back all the things i said
To make you feel like that
And i
Just wish that i didnt feel
Like there was something i missed
And i
Take back all the things i said to you
And i give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone to come home to
This is my december
These are my snow covered dreams
This is me pretending
This is all i need
And i
Just wish that i didnt feel
Like there was something i missed
And i
Take back all the things i said
To make you feel like that
And i
Just wish that i didnt feel
Like there was something i missed
And i
Take back all the things i said to you
And i give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone to come home to
This is my december
This is my time of the year
This is my december
This is all so clear
And i give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have someone to come home to

RHINESTONE

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core of the rotton
Stop and just what I thought
The sun has escaped us
So I'm bright in the sky
And I'm far from rapist
Look at why did try (2x)
From the thread to the needle, middle to end
When skies cock back and shock that which couldn't defend
The rain then sends dripping acidic questions
Forcefully, the power of suggestion
Then with the eyes tightly shut looking thought the rust and rotten dust
A spot of light floods the floor
And pours itself upon a world of pretend
Then the eyes ease open and its dark again

Chorus

Bridge:
In a minute you'll find me
Eyes burn me up
You say you'll never forget me
But the lies have piled up

Moving all around
Screaming of the ups and downs
Pollution manifested in perpetual sound
And as wheels go round the sunset creeps past the
Street lamps, cars, chain-links, and concrete
A wind open grows and captures the eye
Crys out yellow light as it passes it by
A small black figure sits in front of a box
Inside a box a rock with the needles on top

Nothing stops in the slanted the chain
The brains lose not knowing they were part of the game
And the insides go but the box stays the same
And shame, shovel up the pieces to the pain
You could try to hide yourself in the world of pretend
When the paper's crumbled up it can't be perfect again

Chorus
Bridge

Yeah I got you got in the act
You better step back
Telling me that
I seein' right through you (7x)

Bridge (2x)

READING MY EYES

The Microphone Molesta
The chevy undresser
Stupid dope fresh tight shit resurrector
Top gun man mod best of the besta
The living MC peace and resta
Still tested the flexed gunna
The make funna the appisary make runna
Make summa cold with rhymes that spit
Get gifted, lifted, deliquent wit
I be the prophet, in my hand
Top it, stop it, felt like rockin when I rock it
Locked it down with this perverse verse
Every fuckin curse I burst to hurt
Room crowds physical fitness rhymes
Coke heads couldn't do my lines
Decorated like christmas pines with Italian rocks
MCs become silohetes in shock

Chorus:
Reading my eyes will say it in many ways
Losing my pride will save it in many days

Hit the dirt
Because the words I spit will do more than just rip your shirt
I'll bitch slap your soul
Track the track control
You coming at me?
You can't hack it though
So rediculous
Watching my crew get sick of this
Wickedness
Pitchin this
Lyrical brichisness
To crews and cliques
Maiden, men, and mistresses
This is my life
The twilight, the fight night
And trying to see nothing but the highlights
When I write
These eyes on horizons
Top of Mike, start cries on to Krylon
Fire on, rude men telekenetically
As aterically beats become a clarity
Feel averity's heroism, and heracy
And severe every MC I see with Neverity

Chorus

Why not
What a keep (3x)

Why not give me what I came to deserve
Why not give me what I came to believe (2x)

Chorus

FUSE

Of course you know what a fuse is...
It's a long piece of cord impregnated with gun powder
When you strike a match and light it
It burns, fitfully, spiraling to it's end
At which there is, a little suprise

Krypton, short suit MCs you'll be ripped on
You fell off and it's my lyric sheet you just slipped on
Get gone, spit on mic's made in Hong Kong
Rock on, sing songs mightier than King Kong
A Donkey, you think you want me or want this
Want some, hold your reputation for Ransom
With these here, handsomely crafted tactics
To break a snake and see like a cheap profilactic
Galactic, space now yeah that grabs attention
Crackheads nodded like a pest can't even mention
Right a pat traps gas tracks in sections
Kid steps this he need witness protection

Trying to see while I
If you see it
I'll be here (2x)

It was the junkyard crooked letter C-I-entific
Duck us, the ruckus I'll bring stings your eardrum
Hear one, lalala loose frind me fearsome
Opposing troops on my home front shall be gone
Testing the eight-hundred, eighteenth batallion
Shallow the one who's run like rebels
Enola gay rhymes kicked the notch up a level
In intesity, send back the tax that you sent to me
Blow up your spot with grenades that were meant for me
MP3 versus R33 MCs, swiss change your gear putting shrapnel in the breeze
We're MCs with enemy companies with my hand full of lyrics talking 'bout you want these
Please, don't even speak the name of channels and low gadget mic shit put it down like pens
For my friends and my fam let them dodge it around this mic shot through the back of an MCs hand
With the strength that he had a bridge you don't want that close body fields in hand to hand combat
Battle cats, it's like the sectional speech warfare words slash cords
Come deford shots get rid don't question my intention when your butt gets kicked

Trying to to see while I
If you see it
I'll be here
Tech broke itallic syllabalic attacks
Trying to see while I
If you see it
I'll be here
You want these MCs lyrically back smacks

Why wait, I didn't look down myself (8x)

Trying to to see while I
If you see it
I'll be here
Tech broke itallic syllabalic attacks
Trying to see while I
If you see it
I'll be here
You want these MCs lyrically back smacks

STICK N' MOVE

This is how it's done going for the title and crown
Where now MC's surround as the beat breaks down
In 2 elements clobbin' up those that have been blessed
And as the M-I see the way it ought to be ponessed
Yes, yes am I the one to keep you on your toes
Definitaly in my b-boy pose, thea let your ? like twist
Touch your chin to your chest to the rhythm like this

Chorus:
Now see what I have, I want you
Be with me or Stick n' Move
Now see what I had, I want you
Be with me or Stick n' Move

MC's dogging me since the first day I grabbed the mic
Now it's like Sit, Stay
Cobra path lifestyles i'm kickin'
Stickin' MC's real quick 'cause times tickin'
At the drop of the defense, I let loose the venom
Sendin', I try to verbal heat up venom
The ending will come, grab your family and run
Apocalyptic rhyme pattern taking shots from the sun
Record in the world, four-thousand-eighty-one
Question my intentions and your whole world is done
Like wars to Rome, turn your eyeballs into Saturn
Full metal jacket fully auto rhyme pattern

Chorus

Stick it, rock it for a click and a whicket
Move it, moving all the tunes and you groove it (4x)

Chorus

B12

Atom bombs, something's wrong
D.E.A sent to Guam
Acid trips, big fat chicks
Purple Flinstone vitamins
All the needy, rich are greedy
I find out you don't need me
Berlin wall starts to fall
I trip out to the wall

Hooray hoorah

You think I'm stupid
Stay out of my way
You think I'm stupid

Ku Klux Klan makes a plan
To destroy the black man
Air pollution, no solution
What is causing this confusion
Anarchism, satanism
Anti-christ, socialism
A man's brain is deranged
So we think he's insane

WHAT'S IN THE EYE

What's in the eye, can you tell me?
Watching the time pass me by
There's so much locked up inside

Don't go too fast my friend
Or you'll lose control
Don't go to fast my friend
Or you'll lose control

What's in the eye that I cannot catch?
Is it me, I want to know
Why it's so hard to let go

DRAG

Torture me,make me feel like I am reel
Torture me,drag me under you
Time lifts me up and down
Time makes me sharp

Chorus:
Life is much to short to be intoxicated
Life is much to short to be a drag

Please treat me like I am a fallen angel
Surpress me,tell me lies

Chorus:
Life is much to short to be intoxicated
Life is much to short to be a drag

You can't tell me this

Chorus:
Life is much to short to be intoxicated
Life is much to short to be a drag

DRAG!
DRAG!
DRAG!

SICKNESS

I'm a whore and I'm feeling sorry for myself
In your arms I am drowning like the child I was

I need more can you help me?
Feed my sins, come and kill me
It's calling me

Endless skies falling freely down upon my head
So much for hopeless dreaming frustration settles in

I need more can you help me?
Feed my sins, come and kill me
It's calling me

IN TIME

Time, why must it fly so slow
Waiting, is something that's easy for you
Pull the plug, send it down the drain
Pain is easy to get used to

What's in me, is in you
What's got me, has got you
And everything told, must come true
Pretending to be real, forgetting who you are

Sin, is always at my door
Slice the vein, blood spilled on the floor
Light shining in my eyes
Death greets me with a smile

Pain
So much pain
Pain
So much pain

JUST LIKE HEROIN (A LITTLE DOWN)

It can't be me, bring us to our passage
Show me my new skin, so I can see what I've let in

Standing here with my thoughts
Low and sound hard to understand
Noone can ever bring anyone to see

It's my time to fade, dying on the floor
See myself as I am, excuses are just excuses

Just like heroin

SOMETIMES

Sometimes, things just seem to fall apart
When you least expect them to
Sometimes you want to pack up and leave behind
All of them and all their smiles

I don't know what to think anymore
Maybe things will get better
Maybe things will look brighter
Maybe

Sometimes, people surprise you
And people surprise me
Well I guess that's the price we pay
For wanting so badly

HOLE

I would have sailed away, if I'd known that nothing
would change
Starting out my window sill, in my wasted prison cell

And I know what you want
And I know what you feel
As I cradle your loving
And watch you disappear

And I feel your heart beat, pounding in my head
I'd like to control you, 'cause I can't control myself

Rain come my way, mold my head like a ball of clay
Softly wither into my grave, never to see the sun again

All alone in a crowd by myself, so sorry wish I could
Find a way
Back into your hole again but, I've become your enemy

THE DOWN SYNDROME

People come around
People let you down
Anywhere you go
Anyone you see
It's real
It's up to you to make it happen
It's up to you to make it real

And you know how it feels
To bleed some, to need some

Tell me what you know
Tell me how you feel
It doesn't matter when you're down
when you look at me with your eyes
That smile on your face it seems happy
Are you happy?

ANYTHING, ANYTHING

Okay, what is it tonight
Please just tell me what the hell is wrong
Do you wanna eat
Do you wanna sleep
Do you wanna SHOUT
Just settle down
Settle down
Settle down

Well I'll give you candy
Give you diamonds
Give you bells
I'll give you anything you WANT
Hundred dollar bills
And I'll even let you watch the shows you want to see
Cause you'll marry me
Marry me
Marry me

I'm so sick of you tonight
You never stay awake when I get home
Something wrong with me
Something wrong with you
I really wish I knew
Wish I knew 
Wish I knew

Well I'll give you candy
Give you diamonds
Give you bells
I'll give you anything you WANT
Hundred dollar bill
And I'll even let you watch the shows you want to see
Cause you'll marry me
Marry me
Marry me

When I was young I played a game
That love and happiness were the same
Now I'm older and I don't play
I found out the hardest way
I got wasted she got mad
She called me names then she called her dad
He got crazy and I did too
Wondering what I did to you

Well I'll give you candy
Give you diamonds
Give you bells
I'll give you anything you WANT
Hundred dollar bill
And I´ll even let you watch the shows you want to see
I'll do anything
Anything
Anything

Anything
Anything
Anything

Anything

Anything...

SOUL SONG

I will be waiting
With a song in my soul
A fortunate weakling
Which I have foretold

He raises his arms tied
Above the opressed
Singing this sweet song
His melody opens up the sun

And freedom rained
God has come
With the rivers of blood
Pushed back in my veins
She sleeps with her eyes closed
To dream of the past
Her mind has gone blind now
While Her memory closes up the sun

SATURATION

Let me tell you 'bout myself
Some say I've got a bad attitude
Some say I've got nothing else
Some say I have a lot to prove

Let me tell you 'bout myself
I'll do whatever you want
I'll do what you ask me to
But I won't do what you tell me to do
No

Strange
Love
Be gone
Be gone

Let me tell you 'bout myself
Some say I got a long way to go
Some say I'm going straight down
Some say there's nowhere to go
And this is what I say

SPIN

I want to pick up the pieces, so that
There's less complication, so that
There's less conversation, and
Less aggravation

I want to go out alone, man, so that
There's less confrontation, and man,
There's less association, and
Less company, yeah

I was so frustrated, man, that
I was all confused, man, and that
I was disillusioned, and
sick of your friends

Run, don't walk my way
Don't look my way
Cause I don't care, oh, no
So why are you still here
Why don't you disappear
And spin out of my life, oh

Why do we have limitation, and man
Why do we have limitation, so that
We don't get very far, and so that
We don't climb very high

I can't handle the indecision, and
I can't watch no more television, and
I won't miss you when you're gone
Cause I know my life will go on

Run, don't walk my way
Don't look my way
Cause I don't care, oh, no
So why are you still here
Why don't you disappear
And spin out of my life, oh

MOREI SKY

I've lived through things I cannot say
Back then we dreamt of yesterday
It seemed as if the only way
And now we look for hope and pray

If I had a second chance
I'd make amends
Only to find myself
Losing in the end

It came up from the deepest sea
God gave it life and reason to be
His Shadow rose above the highest tree
And still his face we could not see

If I had a second chance
I'd make amends
Only to find myself
Losing in the end

I've lived through things I cannot say
Back then we dreamt of yesterday
It seemed as if the only way
And now we look for hope and pray

If I had a second chance
I'd make amends
Only to find myself
Losing in the end

WAKE ME

Should I have a taste of this
Run across your lips
And start all over again

Could this all just be a dream

If I should fall to stormy weather
Wake me, wake me

Maybe this time I can do it all right
Without my foot in my mouth
Without that blind in my sight

Could this all just be a dream 

If I should fall to stormy weather
Wake me, wake me

Too scared to lose the one
I tried so hard for
Too scared to lose the one
I never had

STARTING TO FLY

I know the answers from the words of
The prophet
I've seen the light through the fingers
Made of magic
I've seen an image of the future,
It's a vision and I know who you are

(Chorus)
Go away can't you see you're not real
Open your eye some place far away
I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky
I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

I met a poet tonight behind the masses
I sang a song about my many true
Addictions
I saw myself in a hole, down below
And I know who you are

(Chorus)
I'm alright though it's hard to feel
Open your eye some place far away
I've seen the ocean and I've seen the sky
I've got my wings and I'm starting to fly

Open your eyes
Look to the sky
Grab your wings
And start to fly

(Chorus)

SOMETIMES

Sometimes, things just seem to fall apart
When you least expect them to
Sometimes you want to pack up and leave behind
All of them and all their smiles

I don't know what to think anymore
Maybe things will get better
Maybe things will look brighter
Maybe

Sometimes, people surprise you
And people surprise me
Well I guess that's the price we pay
For wanting so badly

HOLDING YOU

Endless hopes, well
That's too bad
Smile happy,
Enjoy my pain

Hoping I can find
What we never had
Never holding you
It makes me

(Bridge)
100% is where it lies
Behind the tide
Inside the ocean
Inside your ocean

Frozen is the present past, oh
Made of stone, but breaks like glass, so
Take me now to where I want to go
Thoughts astray but who will know

(Chorus)

In a dream it seems
Just to hold my hand
Shaking the release
Stop me,
Stop me if you can

Repeat first verse

(Bridge) 

(Chorus)

BELIEVE ME

Sleep,
In the shadows,
Breathe,
In the air
Without dreaming
Without a care, oh

Look,
In the mirror
Cry,
No control
I've got a fever
I've got my whole, oh

I tried to believe it
Tried to receive it
With eyes of power
Will you deceive me, oh

Crawl,
Up to the clouds
Claw,
Your way out
I want to be there
I want to move on, oh

I ran like a coward
Far from this place
Show me desire
Show me disgrace

Believe me

HERE, NEARBY

Melted candles on the window sill
Perfume in the haze
Ashtrays spread across the floor
On a normal day

We lay out across the bed
Just like we always did
And in this house
The devil laid his hand on our head
and made them spin

I want to be your man
If you think I cared
I want to be your man
Your man, lord

No more defenses
Like no more peace of mind
Keeping in these knives stabbing
Spilling out your blood to me

I want to be your man
If you think I cared
I want to be your man
Your man, lord

I want to be your man
If you think I cared
I want to be your man
Your man, lord

SHE SHINES

She shines like a flower
In my head
Everybody,
Wants to pick her dead

(Chorus)
She said she loved me
And lied to me
She was by the river
And lied to me

She shines like a flower
In my head
Everybody,
Wants her in their bed

(Chorus)
She said she loved you
And lied to you
She was by the river
And lied to you

So eager

(Chorus) 

So eager

SHOUTING OUT

Silent criminals analyzed 
Through psychic waving tears (waving tears) 
Superstitious minds collide 
As silence fills the hall (fills the halls) 

Silence moving proclamations 
This silence proving lies, 
Speechless cries, emotions dull 
Shouting out across the hall 

Didn't mean to let you down 
I'm shouting out, so ashamed 
Didn't mean to run from you 
I didn't mean to 
Shouting out 
(I'm shouting out) 

Showing weakness in your eyes 
You're crawling on your knees, (on your knees) 
Roaming aimless through skies lost 
As silence shakes the halls 

Creeping past all illusions 
Searching thoughts that hide 
Silence brakes in weeping hands 
Shouting out and in again 

Didn't mean to run from you 
I'm shouting out, so ashamed 
Didn't mean to rush you down, 
I didn't mean to 
Shouting out 
Shouting out La de dum 
Shouting out La de dum 

La de da la de da da hum...