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"Linkin Park Lyrics Rule!"

C'mon, just look at the insight of these wonderful rhymes. Now, some of you may not understand these, but that is because your simple minds listen to manufactured POP music. Linkin Park, although manufactured, are good because they're METAL, which means they're much cooler than Steps and the like. For you silly people, I have anylysed the lyrics.

Here we go...

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?

This is about someone walking along a street, being followed by some unscrupulous types. The singer is wondering if he should carry on walking with his eyes closed (If I can't see them then they can't see me), or if he should do nothing because the people behind him are just dreams.

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,

Now, the singer is debating about wheather or not he should go and try to catch the muggers red handed, risking looking like a fool if they are actually dreams. This is so relevent to modern life - I mean, think of all the times you get followed by muggers that you think might be dreams!

Or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness?
Because I can't hold on when I'm stretched so thin
I make the right moves but I'm lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up getting hurt again
By myself (Myself)

This is really clever, because it's about a completely different subject. This subtlely relates to how modern life is always changeing, sometimes mid-verse.

Pre chorus:
I ask why, but in my mind
I find I can't rely on myself

I can't hold on
To what I want when I'm stretched so thin
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
To anything watching everything spin
With thoughts of failure sinking in

If I turn my back I'm defenseless
And to go blindly seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they'll take from me 'till everything is gone
If I let them go I'll be outdone
But if I try to catch them I'll be outrun
If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer
Then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer
(By myself)

Pre chorus
Chorus

How do you think I've lost so much
I'm so afraid, I'm out of touch
How do you expect I will know what to do
When all I know is what you tell me to

Don't you know
I can't tell you how to make it go
No matter what I do, how hard I try
I can't seem to convince myself why
I'm stuck on the outside

Chorus (2x)

Just read them. Dont they rule?

I said no offence, but the other bit (in brackets) was just what would have happened if you had been insulted... (and been a psycho who owned a gun and somehow knew where I lived...) oh well, I tried to explain
:-)

Sibs wrote:
> Mouldy Cheese wrote:
> LOL!

I wasn't being serious, BTW. Linkin Parks
> lyrics are some of the worst I
> have ever heard.

Which you might have
> understood if you read it.

In that case I think Firebolt might feel a little
> stupid :D

No offense Firebalt... (I've made a powerful enemy today... arghh!
> He shot me! Call the police!)

That's FirebAlt. I didn't spend 5 years in medical school to be called Firecool (Nah, just kidding mate!). I don't quite get the last bit though, willing to elaborate for me?

here are some great lyrics by a band called 'Anti-Flag' (they are pretty political lyrics too). The song is called Seattle Was A Riot

Seattle was a riot, They tried to pin it on us,
But we didn't show up, With gas and billy clubs,
An un-armed mass of thousands, Just trying to be heard,
But there are no world leaders, That want to hear our words,
whooo ho hooooooo

(chorus)
Why must we riot?
Why must we protest?
Just to be heard, by the world!

The world banks greed and lies, digs graves in third world lands,
And fills them with the remains of exploited workers,
Or displaced native peoples, And destroyed eco-systems,
Under the guise of progress, relief, and tech assistance,

(chorus)

Since the dawn of history, the few who own control,
Have bent and rewrote history, how they want it to go,
They try to control what we learn, and take away our rights,
Cause when the masses round the world unite,
that's a force they can not fight!!!

We'll fight for our...
We'll fight for our...
We'll fight for our...
We'll fight for our RIGHTS!!!

(spoken bit)
Sitting in what was designated, the 'co-operation' zone by the seattle Police Sergent Richard Goldstein, They sat heads bowed- listening as the police methodically shot pepper spray- one eye at a time- into the eyes of our passive brothers and sisters, wh0re like police- playing judge, jury, and executioner, for their pimp like bosses in the world bank and W.T.O.
This is not justice! This is not the role of 'The servants of the people'!
Such tyranny brings ruling classes crashing to the ground, and contemporary societies to an end!



And that's it! Much better than the pap you hear on the radio that has no meaning! If you hear this song, only available on the CD, 'Live Fat, Die Young' Which is a Fat Wrck Chords sampler, you will hear it is sung with passion and belief. This is their cause, and whether you believe in it or not, you can't argue with their passion for it!

I guess whilst Quicksand were roped into the Post-Hardcore contingent along with Helmet and the like, I felt some of their songs, especially in they're chrouses echoed an Emo-tinge to them, maybe it was just me though.

In any case, they were a great band and Rival Schools are just as good as Quicksand.

oh, you mentioned Rival Schools. Sorry I missed that. (now look what u did making me look stoopid!)

Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> I hate Linkin Park.........now

Infact after
> listening to some Emo-Core I hate
> Headline grabbing Metal!


& Punk
> stuff of course...........thats worse.

What the hell do you mean? Emo is an offshoot of Punk! Quicksand the band you named in a later post is a post-hardcore band (hardcore also being interlinked with Punk) and some of the members of it were in Gorilla Biscuits, a Straight Edge band before.

PS if you like quicksand, there is a band with some (maybe all I'm not sure) of Quicksands members in it called Rival Schools. Check em out.

Yeah, I love all type of Emo - Far, Quicksand, Jimmy Eat World, Texas Is The Reason, New End Original, Rival Schools etc.

Hmm, my favourite Far songs - too many to mention to be honest. I regard "Tin Cans With Strings To You" as one of my favourite albums, along with "Water and Solutions". I'm trying to track down some earlier material from them though, there's so much I haven't heard from them yet.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> adrian wrote:
> I too am a big Linkin Park fan. There album is
> amazing.

Amazing in the Steptacular sense or amazing in damn there sooo
> good?

Damn there good.

SHEEPY wrote:
> I HONESTLY could write better lyrics than that bollards.

Look at some of the
> Manics stuff you ejjit... politcal bands rock or crazt Thom Yorke's lyrics kick
> asss too.


do u mean the linkin park or far stuff sheepy dude?

I HONESTLY could write better lyrics than that bollards.

Look at some of the Manics stuff you ejjit... politcal bands rock or crazt Thom Yorke's lyrics kick asss too.