Songs From The Underground

Linkin Park Songs From The Underground Lyrics
1.Announcement Service Public


2.Qwerty (Studio Version)

I didn't think that I had a debt to pay
Until they came to take what I had left away
You said you wouldn't put me to the test today
But I remember you saying that yesterday
There was a time when your mind wasn't out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
Like these simple thoughts, you swallow them whole
Another lie, hard to follow, they follow you home
And like that
(Broken down, a victim of your crime)
Lies
You hide behind your lies
You don't know why
You crossed the line
You're wrapped up inside,
Your Lies
You hide behind your lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies...

Hard to know what you thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I'm far from my place
A job without pay, I thought you might say
So, I'm guessing that you probably know
When your insides hollow then you ought to be cold
Like the pure thoughts you stole, it's going to swallow you
whole
Another lie, hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that
(Broken down, a victim of your...)
Lies
You hide behind your lies
You don't know why
You crossed the line
You're wrapped up inside,
Your Lies
You hide behind your lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies...

You're faking, you're mistaken
If you think I'm taking what's pouring out your soul
Forsaken, what would take me
Everything about my knowing soul
Broken down, a victim of you
You hide behind your lies
You don't know why
You hide behind your lies
You don't know why
You hide behind...
You're wrapped up inside
Your lies
You hide behind your lies
You don't know why
You crossed the line
You're wrapped up inside,
Your Lies
You hide behind your lies
You're lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies...


3.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 helped me to show me
It's too late to love me now
You don't take a word in

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
Sha-Shake with every boom
Involuntary muscle contraction
Ignoring and drinking musical gas field euphoria
The sound pounds to make the dead flush
To have you a head rush with red thoughts and said stuff


4.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
Away
Away

This is so fun, this whole project is like, fun
(Did that sound good?)


5.Dedicated (Demo 1999)

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 hits
Take a walk with me and what you'll see
Is a land where the sand is made up of crushed up wax
And the sky beyond you is krylon blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme
And 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 ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' 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 can be the commonest
Be floatin overhead like a space odyssey monolith
Over seeing the game, over being part of the same ol' thing
It's all gonna change in a hurricane of darkness and pain
And acidic rain and promises that 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 ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' 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
Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' 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
Because this is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to wherever music lives
Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same
And dedicated to the people advancin' 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, anybody with nowhere to run
Who hides in the shadows waiting for the sun


6.Hunger Strike (Live From Projekt Revolution 2008)

I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadence

But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled,

But it's on the table
The fire is cooking
And they're farming babies
While slaves are working
Blood is on the table
And the mouths are choking
But I'm growing hungry

I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadence

But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled

But it's on the table
The fires cooking
And they're farming babies
While the slaves are all working
And it's on the table
The mouths are choking
But I'm growing hungry (Growing hungry)
I'm growing hungry (Growing hungry)
I'm growing hungry (Growing hungry).....


7.My December (Live 2008)

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 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 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 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
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

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


8.Part Of Me

Part of me won't go away.
Every day reminded how much I hated it.
Weighted against the consequences,
Can't live without it so it's senseless.
Want to cut it out of my soul
and just live with a gaping hole.
Take control of my life
and wash out all the burned tastes.
I made the problems in the first place.
Hang my head low 'cause its part of me.
You'll hardly see right next to the heart of me.
Heard of me?
The moons soon scar.
New cuts cover where the old ones are
and now I'm sick of this.
I can't stand the sandpaper thoughts that grate on my sanity.
I'd rather not even be
than 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.
I feel it everyday.
I feel I'm in 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,
when 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.
Removed the broken parts you know were wrong,
and feel the calm when the problems all gone,
and then you start to see
a little piece of yourself that you can't let be.
Memories of the last fight to free yourself
take you to the depths at the bottom of the well
and now you know that you can chose 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.
I feel it everyday.
I feel I'm in my way.
I feel it swell up inside,
Swell up inside.
Swallowing me!
Alive in me, inside of me, a part of me screams violently,
silently.
Alive in me, inside of me, a part of me screams politically.
This part of me won't go away,
A part of me won't go away.

Everywhere I look around
I see how everything ought to be.
Every time I see myself
there's always something wrong with me.
Everywhere I look around
I see how everything ought to be.
And every time I see myself
there's always something wrong with me.
I feel it everyday.
I feel I'm in my way.
I feel it swell up inside,
Swell up inside.
Swallowing me!
I feel it everyday.
I feel I'm in my way.
I feel it swell up inside,
Swell up inside.
Swallowing me!
I feel it swell up inside,
Swell up inside.
Swallowing me!
I feel it swell up inside,
Swell up inside.
Swallowing me!