Lyrics: Linkin Park - Meteora

1. Foreword
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no lyrics available

2."Don't Stay"
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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 take 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

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

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

3."Somewhere I Belong"
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[Verse 1] (Mike)

(When this began)
I had nothing to say
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(I was confused)
And I live it all out to find, but I'm not the only person with these things in mind
(Inside of me)
But all that they can see the words revealed
Is the only real thing that i got left to feel
(Nothing to lose)
Just stuck hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

[Chorus]

[Verse 2] (Mike)

And I got nothing to say I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face
(I was confused)
Look at everywhere only to find
It is not the way I had imagined it all in my mind
(So what am I)
What do I have but negativity
Cuz I can't trust no one by 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

[Verse 3] (Chester)

I will never know myself until I do this on my own
Cuz i will never feel anything else until my wounds are healed
I will never be anything til' 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 til' 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

4."Lying From You"
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When I pretend, everything is what I want it be,
I look exactly like what you 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 that this is they way it will stay, I'm just
(Lying to bend the truth)
I can't pretend of who you want me to be so
(Lying my way from YOU)

(Nah, no turning back now)
I wanna be pushed aside so let me go
(Nah, no turning back now)
Let me take me back my life
I'd rather be all alone
(No turning back now)
Anywhere on my own, cause I can see
(Nah, no turning back now)
The very worst part of you is me

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 pretend up a person who was fittin in
And now you think this person really is me and I'm
(Trying to bend the truth)
'Cuz the more I push the more I'm pulling away cause I'm
(Lying my way from YOU)

This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would have you running from me
LIKE THIS! (4)

You
(Nah, no turning back now)
I wanna be pushed aside so let me go
(Nah, no turning back now)
Let me take me back my life
I'd rather be all alone
(No turning back now)
Anywhere on my own, cause I can see
(Nah, no turning back now)
The very worst part of you
The very worst part of you
IS ME

5."Hit The Floor"
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There are just too many
Times that people have tried to look inside of me
Wondering what I think of you
And I protect you out of courtesy
To many times that I've held on 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've said about me when I'm not around
You think having the upperhand means you gotta keep putting me down
But I've had too many stand offs with you
Its about as much as I can stand
So I'm waiting until the upperhand is mine

[Chorus:]
One minute you're on top
Next, you're not, watch you drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute you're on top
Next, you're not, missed a shot
Making you're heart stop
You think you've won, and then its all gone

So many people like me put so much trust in all your lies
So concerned on 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've crossed the line
What goes up will surely fall
And I'm counting down the time
'Cause I've had so many stand offs with you
Its about as much as I can stand
So I'm waiting until the upperhand is mine

One minute you're on top
Next, you're not, watch you drop
Making your heart stop
Just before you hit the floor
One minute you're on top
Next, you're not, missed a shot
Making you're heart stop
You think you've won, and then its all gone

And then its all gone
Now its 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

And then its all gone
Now its all gone

6. "Easier To Run"
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It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something long
It's so much easier to run
Than face all 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
Move so deep, they never show,
They never go away
Like moving pictures in my head
For years and years they flame

[Mike's part]
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
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
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

It's easier to run
replacing this pain with something long
It s so much easier to run
Than face all this pain here all alone

Sometimes I remember that 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 forwad, so they'd never be a past

Just watching it aside
All of the helplessness inside
Pretending I don't feel misplaced
It's so much simpler to change

It's easier to run
replacing this pain with something long
It s so much easier to run
Than face all this pain here all alone

It's easier to run

If I could change I would
Take all 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

7. "Faint"
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I am a little bit of loneliness, a little bit of disregard
Handful of complaints,
but I can help the fact, that everybody 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 want what 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 say 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 want what 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

8. "Figure.09"
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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

It never goes away [x2]

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]

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

9. "Breaking The Habit"
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Memories concern
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safer in my room
Unless I try to start again

I don't want to be the one
Who 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

Cultured 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 dont want to be the one
Who 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
Breaking the habit tonight

10. "From The Inside"
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I don’t know who to trust, your surprise
Everything feel so far away from me
Have your thoughts sent through dust, and the lies

Trying not to break, but I’m so tired of this to see
Every time I try to make myself get back up on my feet
All I ever think about is this, all the time and 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
You feel so far away from me
Have your 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 time and 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

11. "Nobody's Listening"
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Yo, peep the style and the kids checking for it
The number one question is how could you ignore it
And drop right back in the cut over basement tracks
Rap stack got you back in the sub black
Rewind that we just rolling with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylist division
With these non-stop lyrics of life living
Not to be forgotten but still unforgiving
But in the meantime there are those who wanna talk this and that
So I suppose that it gets to a point where feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt it goes

[Chorus]
(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
Head full of anger, held in my chest
And everything left's a waste of time
I hate my rhymes, but hate everyone else's more
I'm riding on the back of this pressure
Guessing that it's better I can't keep myself together
Because all of this stress gave me something to write on
The 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
Trash talking and the people it was to
And the people that started it just like you

I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
Head full of anger, held in my chest
Uphill struggle
Blood sweat n tears
Nothing to gain
Everything to fear

Heart full of pain, head full of stress
Head full of anger, held in my chest
Uphill struggle
Blood sweat n tears
Nothing to gain
Everything to fear

Heart full of pain

I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
(Nobody's listening)
Head full of anger, held in my chest
(Nobody's listening)
Uphill struggle
Blood sweat n tears
(Nobody's listening)
Nothing to gain
Everything to fear
(Nobody's listening)

Scratching Conclusion (Cu-coming at you from every side)

12. Session
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no lyrics available

13. "Numb"
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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 undertone just caught in the undertone)
Every step I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)

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 control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
(Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)
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
Is everything what you want me to be
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
Is everything what you want me to be

Lyrics: Linkin Park - Meteora

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