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| LYRICS: PAPERCUT: Why does it feel like night today? Something in here's not right today. Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia's all I got left I don't know what stressed me first Or how the pressure was fed But I know just what it feels like To have a voice in the back of my head It's like a face that I hold inside A face that awakes when I close my eyes A face watches every time I lie A face that laughs every time I fall (And watches everything) So I know that when it's time to sink or swim That the face inside is hearing me Right underneath my skin It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back It's like a whirlwind inside of my head It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin I know I've got a face in me Points out all my mistakes to me You've got a face on the inside too and Your paranoia's probably worse I don't know what set me off first but I know what I can't stand Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is I can't add up to what you can but Everybody has a face that they hold inside A face that awakes when I close my eyes A face watches every time they lie A face that laughs every time they fall (And watches everything) So you know that when it's time to sink or swim That the face inside is watching you too Right inside your skin It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back It's like a whirlwind inside of my head It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin The face inside is right beneath your skin The face inside is right beneath your skin The face inside is right beneath your skin The sun goes down I feel the light betray me The sun goes down I feel the light betray me The sun goes down I feel the light betray me The sun goes down I feel the light betray me The sun goes down I feel the light betray me It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back It's like a whirlwind inside of my head It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin ONE STEP CLOSER: I cannot take this anymore I'm saying everything I've said before All these words they make no sense I find bliss in ignorance Less I hear the less you'll say But you'll find that out anyway Just like before... Everything you say to me Takes me one step closer to the edge And I'm about to break I need a little room to breathe Cause I'm one step closer to the edge And I'm about to break I find the answers aren't so clear Wish I could find a way to disappear All these thoughts they make no sense I find bliss in ignorance Nothing seems to go away Over and over again Shut up when I'm talkin' you Shut up,Shut up! Shut up when I'm talkin' you Shut up,Shut up! 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 break 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 Im pretending to be where Im not anymore A little taste of hypocrisy And Im left in the wake of the mistake / slow to react Even though youre so close to me Youre still so distant / And I cant bring you back Its true / the way I feel Was promised by your face The sound of your voice Painted on my memories Even if youre not with me Im 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 isnt real Now I'm trapped in this memory And Im left in the wake of the mistake / slow to react Even though youre close to me Youre still so distant / And I cant 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 cant run the race The pace is too fast / You just cant last You love the way I look at you While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through You take away if I give in My life My pride is broken You love the things I say Ill do- The way Ill 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 youre never wrong You want to act like youre someone You want someone to hurt like you You want to share what youve been through (You live what you learn) CRAWLING: Crawling in my skin These wounds / they will not heal Fear is how I fall Confusing what is real Theres something inside me that pulls beneath the surface Consuming / confusing This lack of self control I fear is never ending Controlling / I cant seem To find myself again My walls are closing in [Without a sense of confidence / Im convinced there's just too much pressure to take] Ive 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 Its haunting how I cant seem To find myself again My walls are closing in [Without a sense of confidence / Im convinced there's just too much pressure to take] Ive 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 Crawling in my skin These wounds / they will not heal Fear is how I fall Confusing what is real RUNAWAY: Graffiti decorations Underneath a sky of dust A constant wave of tension On top of broken trust The lessons that you taught me I learn were never true Now I find myself in question They point the finger at me again Guilty by association You point the finger at me again Paper bags and angry voices Under a sky of dust Another wave of tension Has more than filled me up All my talk of taking action These words were never true 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 Gonna run away... 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 cant hold on / when Im stretched so thin I make the right moves but Im lost within I put on my daily faade but then I just end up getting hurt again By myself [myself] I ask why, but in my mind I find I cant rely on myself I cant hold on To what I want when Im stretched so thin Its all too much to take in I cant hold on To anything watching everything spin With thoughts of failure sinking in If I Turn my back Im defenseless And to go blindly seems senseless If I hide my pride and let it all go on / then theyll Take from me till everything is gone If I let them go Ill be outdone But if I try to catch them Ill be outrun If Im killed by the questions like a cancer Then Ill be buried in the silence of the answer [by myself] How do you think / Ive lost so much Im so afraid / Im out of touch How do you expect / I will know what to do When all I know / Is what you tell me to Dont you know I cant tell you how to make it go No matter what I do, how hard I try I cant seem to convince myself why Im stuck on the outside IN THE END: It starts with one thing I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try keep that in mind I designed this rhyme To explain in due time All I know Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away It's so unreal Didn't look out below Watch the time go right out the window Trying to hold on, but didn't even know Wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter 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 remind myself how I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so (far) Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me (in the end) You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I Chorus I've put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go And for all this There's only one thing you should know (2x) Chorus 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 moon's going to 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 Pre chorus: I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger Sick of you acting like I owe you this Find another place to feed your greed While I find a place to rest I want to be in another place I hate when you say you don't understand (You'll see it's not meant to be) I want to be in the energy, not with the enemy A place for my head Maybe someday I'll be just like you, and Step on people like you do and Run away the people I thought I knew I remember back then who you were You used to be calm, used to be strong Used to be generous, but you should've known That you'd wear out your welcome Now you see how quiet it is, all alone Pre chorus (2x) Chorus You try to take the best of me Go away (8x) Chorus Pre chorus (2x) 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 (2x) 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 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 over the rusted world of pretend The eyes ease open and its dark again Chorus Bridge: 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 past the 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 Chorus Bridge Now you got me caught in the act You bring the thought back I'm telling you that I see it right through you (7x) Bridge (2x) 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 left 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 I've tried like you To do everything you wanted too This is the last time I'll take the blame for the sake of being with you Pre chorus Chorus (2x) We're all out of time, this is how we find how it all unwinds The sacrifice of hiding in a lie We're all out of time, this is how we find how it all unwinds The sacrifice is never knowing Chorus (2x) Pushes me away(2x) HIGH VOLTAGE (REMIX): Ive been diggin in the crates / ever since I was living in space Before the rat race / before monkeys had human traits I mastered numerology and big bang theology Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology Invented the mic so could start blessing it Chin-checking kids to make my point like an impressionist Many men have tried to shake us But I twist mic cords into double helixes to show you what Im made of Buckle knees like leg braces Cast a spell of instrumentalness on of any emcees that hate us So you can try on / leave you without a shoulder to cry on From now to infinity / let icons be bygones I firebomb / ghostly notes haunt this I tried threats, but moved on to a promise I stomp sh*t / with or without an accomplice and Run the gauntlet with whoever that wants this (Akira) Put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones and never satisfy my rhyme jonz Spray in bright day over what you might say My blood types krylon / technicolor type A On highways, write with road rage Pages of wind in cages of tin that bounce all around Surround sound / devouring the scene Subliminal gangrene paintings / over all the same-thing- sing-song karaoke type sh*t Break bones verbally with sticks-and-stone tactics Fourth dimention combat convention Write rhymes at ease while the track stands at attention Meant to put you away / with a pencil pistol Official / sixteen-line / the rhyme missile While you risk your all / I pick out all your flaws Spttin raw blah blah blah you can say you saw its high voltage this is the unforgettable sound bringin you up and taking you down comin at you from every side making the rhythm and rhyme collide sometimes I feel like a prophet misunderstood under the gun like a new disease
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| TOUR DATES: Sat 10/13/01 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center Mon 10/15/01 Auburn Hills, MI Palace of Auburn Hills Tue 10/16/01 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Field House Thu 10/18/01 Washington D.C. MCI Center Fri 10/19/01 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center Sat 10/20/01 Toronto, ON Toronto Skydome Mon 10/22/01 Philadelphia, PA First Union Center Tue 10/23/01 Albany, NY Pepsi Arena Wed 10/24/01 East Rutherford, NJ Continental Airlines Arena Fri 10/26/01 Hartford, CT Hartford Civic Center Sat 10/27/01 Worchester, MA The Centrum Sun 10/28/01 Buffalo, NY HSBC Arena Tue 10/30/01 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Coliseum Wed 10/31/01 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena Fri 11/02/01 Fort Lauderdale, FL National Car Rental Center Sat 11/03/01 Tampa, FL Ice Palace Sun 11/04/01 Biloxi, MS Miss. Coast Coliseum Tue 11/06/01 Dallas, TX Reunion Arena Thu 11/08/01 Denver, CO Pepsi Center Sat 11/10/01 Anaheim, CA Arrowhead Pond Sun 11/11/01 Phoenix, AZ America West Arena Tue 11/13/01 San Jose, CA Compaq Center At San Jose Wed 11/14/01 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena Fri 11/16/01 Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena Sat 11/17/01 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome Thu 12/06/01 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
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| THE BAND "The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band," describes Linkin Park's guitarist Brad Delson. "We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on." The title of the band's debut album and its original band name, Hybrid Theory, describes both the six-piece's artistic goals and its approach to making music. Linkin Park's sound, a melting pot of heavy alternative rock, hip-hop, and electronic flourishes, is utterly their own, an accomplishment strengthened by the band's remarkably powerful, organic songwriting. But almost everything about Linkin Park has been unforced, including their Southern California origins.
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