You fell away 
what more can I say 
the feelings evolved 
I won't let it 
I can't replace 
your screaming face 
feeling the sickness inside 

[Chorus]
Why won't you die 
your blood in mine 
we'll be fine 
then your body will be mine 

So many words 
can't describe my face 
this feelings evolved 
so soon to break out 
I can't relate to a happy state 
feeling the blood run inside 

[Chorus]

Why is everything so fucking hard for me 
keep me down to watch you think I should pay 
must you tempt me and provoke th ministry 
keep on trying I'm not dying so easily 

[Chorus]

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

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

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

Chorus

You try to take the best of me
Go away 
Go away 
Go away 
Go away 
Go away 
Go away 
Go away 
Go away 

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'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

Graffiti decorations 
underneath a sky of dust 
a constant wave of tension 
on top of broken trust 
the lessons that you taught me 
i learned were never true 
now i fine 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 wordswere never true 
  
i wanna run away 
never say good-bye 
i wanna know the truth 
instead of wondering why 
i wanna know the answers 
no more lies 
i wanna shut the door 
and open my mind 
  
gonna run away 

I knew I was being threatened
Do you think it's worth holding out?
I mean I've heard some pretty ugly things about those guys
Ugly stories

Watch them flee
Watch them flee
Rap up
Watch them flee
Hip-Hop hits
And you do it like this

It's going down
The rhythm projects 'round the next sound
Reflects the complex hybrid dialect now
Detect the mesh of many elements compressed down
The melting pot of a super-future X-style
The combination of a vocal caress
With lungs that gasp for breath
From emotional stress
With special effects
And a distorted collage
Carefully lodged between beats of rhythmic barrage

It's going down
The logical progression on a the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey
Now it's going down
A logical progression on the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take u on a an audible odyssey
Now it's going down 

[Chorus]
Put put put it up
It said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It's going down
Put put it up
It said it go- go- goes like this
And you do it like this
Its going down

Once again it is
Composed sentences all together venomous
The four elements of natural force
Projected daily through the sound of the source
Everybody on board with this blend
The sword with the pen
The mightiest is the weapons
Swinging right from the chin
The elevate of mental states
Long gone with the wind
To defend men for shoddy imitation pretends
It's going down
Stalence emulation readily
Trekking through the weaponry
Of the pure pedigree
Cleverly seeing through whatever is ahead of me
Whatever the weather be
We invent the steadily
It's going down to sub-terrestrial high
I rhyme regiment that's calling the shots
Execution of collaborative plots
Ready to bring the separation of style to a stop 

It's going down
A logical progression on a the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey
Now, it's going down 

[Chorus]

It's going down
X-men 'bout to blast of world wide
Yo it's request only
X- men 'bout to blast of world wide
It's built from scratch
Album in stores soon
'Bout to blast off world wide
And you do it like this

It's going down
Put put put it up
It said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It's going down
Put put it up
It said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It's going down
Like this...

[Mike Shinoda]
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] 2x
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Bring it to you every time like this? 
Bring it to you every time like this? 
Step, step up, step, step up

[Mike Shinoda]
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
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, wehere 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, and the 
question must be asked.)

[Chorus] 2x

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 knoe 
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
Its 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 it go
I kept everything inside and even tho I tried/It all fell apart
What it meant to me will evetually/be a memory/of a time when

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

One thing/i don't know why
Doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind/I designed this rhyme
To remind myself How
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Actin like I was a part of ur property
Remembering all the times you fought w/ me/I'm surprised
It got so (far)
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouln't even reconize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then 
But it all comes bak to me
In the end
You kept evetyhing inside and even though I tried/it all fell apart
What it meant to me/will eventually/be a memory/of a time when I

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

Repeat 2x:
I put my trust in you
Pushed as far as i can go 
For all this 
Theres only one thing u should know

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

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

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

There’s something inside me that crawls beneath the surface,
Consuming, confusing,
It’s like a self control I feel is never ending,
It’s haunting,
How I can’t seem
To find myself again,
My walls are closing in,
Without a sense of self confidence,
And I’m convinced that there’s just to 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 it real,

Discomfort endlessly had 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,
And I’m convinced there’s just to 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,
Consuming, confusing what is real.
(without a sense of confidence,
and i'm conviced there's to much pressure to take)

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 talking to you

[Mike Shinoda Excerpt]
You know what I mean
Try to put a label on a life
Put a label on a lifestyle (Sometimes)
You know, put a label on how you wake up every morning and go to bed at 
night (Alright)

[Mike Shinoda]
I've 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 I 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 and show them what I'm made of
I buckle knees like leg braces
Cast a spell of instrumentalness on all of you emcees who hate us
So you can try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on, from now to 
infinity, let icons be bygons
I firebomb, ghostly notes haunt this
I tried threats, but moved on to a promise
I stomp shit, with or without an accomplice and
Run the gauntlet with whoever that wants this

[Chorus]
High voltage
The unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin' you up and taking you down
High voltage
Comin' at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide

[Mike Shinoda Excerpt]
(Akira) I put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones
And never satisfy my rhyme jones
Sprayin' bright day over what you might say
My blood type's 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 copy bullshit
Break bones verbally with sticks-and-stone tactics
Fourth dimension 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
Spittin' raw blah blah blah you can say you saw

[Chorus]

[Mike Shinoda Excerpt]
I like to rock and rap, you know what I mean?
People are acting like, you know, "wow that’s a new invention"
That shit thing, you know
We're constantly evolving
It is constantly changing (Sometimes)
There's a world of change
Everybody's always trying to put labels on it, there ain't no label for this 
shit
They always gotta try to put a label on it
Try to create something so they can water it down

[Chester Bennington]
Sometimes I feel like a prophet, misunderstood
Under the gun like a new disease
Sometimes I feel like a prophet, misunderstood
Under the gun like a new disease

[Chorus] 3x

[Mike Shinoda Excerpt]
You know what I mean? You can't put a label on a lifestyle