Hybrid Theory

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
Chorus
The face inside is right beneath your skin (3x)
The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me (Repeat until end)

Chorus (Repeat until end)

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 talking to you

 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 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

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 can’t run the race

The pace is too fast / You just can’t 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 I’ll do-

The way I’ll 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 you’re never wrong

You want to act like you’re someone

You want someone to hurt like you

You want to share what you’ve 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

There’s something inside me that pulls beneath the surface

Consuming / confusing

This lack of self control I fear is never ending

Controlling / I can’t seem

To find myself again

My walls are closing in

[Without a sense of confidence / I’m convinced

there's just too much pressure to take]

I’ve felt this way before

So insecure

Discomfort, endlessly has 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 / I’m convinced

there's just too much pressure to take]

I’ve felt this way before

So insecure...

 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 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]

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 l et 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]

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

 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 exp lain in due time

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)

Cure for the Itch

 (Unnamed announcer): Folks, we have a very special guest for you tonight.
I'd like to introduce...
Mr. Hahn!
Let's hear it for the great Mr. Hahn!
And now a lesson in rhythm management.
Let's begin...
Alright now, wasn't that fun?
Let's try something else.

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Reanimation

PTS.OF.ATHRTY

Yo, yo, forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
And puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can't run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won't last, won't last, won't 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 like to think you're never wrong
(You like to think your never wrong)
You have to act like you're someone
(You have to act like you're someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you've been through
(To live what you’ve learned)

You love the things I say I'll do
The way I'll 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 you're never wrong
(You like to think your never wrong)
You have to act like you're someone
(You have to act like you're someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you've been through
(To live what you’ve learned)

Yo, yo, forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
And puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can't run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won't last (2x)

You like to think you're never wrong
(You like to think your never wrong)
You have to act like you're someone
(You have to act like you're someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you've been through
(To live what you’ve learned) (2x)

ENTH E ND

[Shinoda]
One thing, I dont why. it dosnt even matter how hard you try. keep that in mind, I designed this rhym when i was upsessed with time. all i know, time was just sliping away, and i wathed it count to the end of the day. watched it watch me and the words that i say. they echo in the clock rythem in my maz. i know that i didnt look out below when i watched the time go right out the window. trying to grabhold, tyring not to watch. i waisted it all on the hands of the clock. but in the end, no matter what i pretend the journey is more important then end where it started. and what it ment to me will eventualy be a memory of a time when i tried so hard.

[Chester]
Tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end it dosnt even matter. i had to fall, to lose it all, but in the end, it dosnt even matter.

[Motion Man]
Hey yo one thing, i dont know why. it dosnt even matter how hard you try. keep that in mind. i desiged this rym to explain in due time. all i know, i so-socialize like the host of the party and spost shake the need, i contact. party the toe strong allmat. northeast, southwest coast. im staring out the window at the opertunity to mendal. i tried disorda your weak in your system and i defordered. i braught you back into things, like the imagionary man of your dreams. youd always see to mak it worth it. a pig skin, i never nerfed it. you felt lever never pleather real bringing the pleasure. by any means it meams im leaving your teens,. holler for teen magizens, but i tried so hard, and got so far.

[Chester]
Tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end it dosnt even matter. i had to fall, to lose it all, but in the end, it dosnt even matter.

[Shinoda]
One thing, i dont know how. it dosnt even matter when you look at it now. cuz when designed this rym, i was scared of it all. scared to fall, and hadnt even tried to crall. but i was forced to run, with you mockin me. stoppin me, back stabbing me constantly. remembering all the times you faught with me. watched the clock mount chock full of hip-hoprisy. and now your mouh wishes it could inhail, every single little thing youaid to make things fail. every single word you sputtered to justto get you peace, but it dosnt really matter to me, cuz from the start to the end, no matter what i pretend, the journey is more important in th end where it started. and wha it ment to me will eventuly be a memory of a time when i tried so hard.

[Chester]
Tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end it dosnt even matter. i had to fall, to lose it all, but in the end, it dosnt even matter.

FRGT/10

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's there
The memory won't escape me

[Mike]
We're stuck in a place so dark you can hardly see
The manner of matter that splits with the words I breathe
And as the rain drips acidic questions around me
I block out the sight of the powers that be
And duck away into the darkness, times up
I wind up in a rusted world with eyes shut
So tight that it blurs into the world of pretend
And the eyes ease open and it's dark again

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's there
The memory won't escape me
But why should I care

[Chali 2NA]
In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up

[Mike]
Listen to the sound, dizzy from the ups and downs
I'm nauseated by the polluted rock that's all around
Watching the wheels of cars that pass I look past
To the last of the light and the long shadows it casts
A window grows and captures the eye
And cries out a yellow light as it passes me by
And a young shadowy figure sits in front of a box
Inside a building of rock with antennas on top
Now, nothing can stop in this land of the pain
The sane lose not knowing they were part of the game
And while the insides change the box stays the same
And the figure inside could bear anybody's name
The memories I keep are from a time like then
I put on my paper so I could come back to them
Someday I'm hoping to close my eyes and pretend
That this crumpled up paper can be perfect again

Yo. 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's there
The memory won't escape me

[Chali 2NA]
I'm here at this podium talking, the ceremonial offerings
Dedicated to urban dysfunctional offspring
What's happening? City governments are eternally napping
Trapped in greedy convenants causing an urban collapsing
Bullets that scar souls with dark holds
Get more then your car stole, some hearts be blacker than charcoal
For real. This society's deprivation depends
Not on our differences but the separation within
No preparation is made, limited aid, and minimum wage
Living in a tenement cage for innocent pay
Tragedy within a parade
The darkness overspreads like a permanent plague
I'm the forgotten
In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up

P5HNG ME A*WY

[Stephen]
When I look into your eyes, theirs nothing there to see, nothing but my own mistakes staring back at me.

[Mike]
(backwords)
Everything Falls apart, even the people who never frown, eventually break down, everything has to end, youll soon find were out of time left to watch it all unwind, everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually break down (backwords)

[Chester]
Ive lied to you, this is the last smile that I'll fake for the sake of being with you

[Mike]
Everything Falls apart, even the people who never frown, eventually break down, everything has to end, youll soon find we're out of time,(for the sake of being with you) left to watch it all unwind, Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually break down

[Chester]
The sacrifice is never knowing why I stay with you, just push away, no matter what you see, your still so blind, to me, (more stuff backwords, to lazy to figure out, I'll edit this later) I've tried like you, to do everything you wanted to, this is the last time Ill take the blame for the sake of being with you.

[Mike]
Everything Falls apart, even the people who never frown, eventually break down, (The sacrifice of hiding in a lie) everything has to end, youll soon find we're out of time, left to watch it all unwind

[Chester]
The sacrifice is never knowing why I stay with you, just push away, no matter what you see, your still so blind, to me.

[Stephen]
Reverse phycology, is failing miserably, its so hard to be left all alone, telling you is the only chance for me, theres nothing left but to turn and face you, when I look into your eyes, theirs nothing there to see, nothing but own mistakes staring back at me, Asking why....

[Chester]
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie, the sacrifice is never knowing why I stay with you, just push away, no matter what you see, your still so blind to me. Asking why I stay with you, just push away, no matter what you see, your still so blind to me.

PLC.4 MIE HAED

[Chester]
I wanna be in another place, I hate when you say you dont understand, I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy, a place for my head.

[Mike]
I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night, shining with the light from the sun, the sun doesnt give light to the moon, assuming the moons gonna owe it one, and makes think of how you act to me, you do favors that rapidly, you just turn around and start asking me about things you want back from me, Im 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, Im sick of the tension, sick of the hunger, sick of you acting like I oweyou this, find another place to feed your greed, while I find a place to rest.

[Chester]
I wanna be in another place, I hate when you say you dont understand, I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy, a place for my head. I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna

[Zion]
Two, Two, Three, Three, Ya, Ya, Ya, Gimme ???

[Chester]
I wanna be in another place, I hate when you say you dont understand, I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy, a place for my head. You try to get the best of me, go away, go away, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me, go away, you try to take the best of me.

X-ECUTIONER STYLE

[Chairman Hahn]
Wasn't that fun, lets try something else?

[Black Thought]
45 caliber killer without of the filla
Elevated Show your brothas how your not a gorilla
Smooth talking fully automatic weapon constiller
Taste thrilla, great filler
Hit him with the bounce stiller
Filthy stinking standing on the side grounded
Still be sinking submerging in the parks
Still be linking plucked beats when it starts
Hope your thinking its not a mirage
I�fm living up off tracks from out of the garage
Well if you could duck but its hard to dodge
In the back of that spine where my darkness lies
Flippin straight up ripping apart your squad
X-Ecutioner's Style cuts and blends
Like a syringe banging you in each of your limbs
See me coming through your party hard
Without no body guard
Smoking something, stomping on each of your toes
I'm the B to the L to the A to the C King
And when it comes to planning the Thought, keeping thinking this

H! VLTG3

[Chester]
Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes....

[Mike]
Hybrid
I've been diggin into crates ever since I was livin in space
Before the rat race, before monkeys human traits
I mastered numerology, big bang theology
performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology
Invented the mic so I can start blessin it
Chin-checkin' kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us But I twist mic chords like double helixes
to show them what I'm made of
I buckle knees like leg braces, cast a spell of instrumentalist
on all of you MCs who hate us
So you can try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on
From now to infinite, let icon be bygones
I fire bombs, 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

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

[Mike]
I've put a kink in the backbones, of clones with microphones
Never satisfied my rhymes jones
Spraying bright day over what you might say
My blood types krylon, Technicolor type A
On highways write with road rage
Cages of wind, And cages of tin,
that bounce all around
Surround sound, devouring the scenes
Subliminal gangrene paintings, over all the same things
Sing songs karaoke copy bullshit
Break bones verbally
with sticks and stones tactics
Forth dimension, compact convention
Write rhymes with ease
while the track stands at attention
Meant to put you away with the pencil
Pistol, official, sixteen line, a rhyme missile
While you risk your all I pick out at your flaws
Singing rah blah, blah, blah you can say you saw

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide (2x)

[Pharoahe Monch]
Who's the man, demanding you hand over your land Rover
the man's bolder than the Pharoahe
when he jams you glance over
I am visclorosuos, the most ferocious
When I spy my third eye it's extremely high voltage
That's why I need ruby quartz glasses,
cause when I glance theres a chance
That I might blast the masses
Subliminals transmitted through piano
Integrated in flow, calculated to nano
I use skills when I need pleas
heats the rhyme I hear when I bleed as I proceed through time
I walk through walls and inanimate obstacles
By enducing the reduction of cells and molecules
I bring the knowledge you swallow a state that's a hologram
I botch your head, faten your lip like collagen
The telepath delivers verses with no postage
Mike Shinoda, Pharoahe Monche we high voltage

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide (2x)

WTH>YOU

[Chester]
Come one!!

[Mike]
I woke up in a dream today
to the cold of the static, 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

[Chester]
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
With you
You now I see even when I close my eyes
With you (2x)

[Mike]
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
but when things go wrong I pretend that the past isn't real
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

[Chester]
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
With you
You now I see even when I close my eyes
With you (2x)

[Aceyalone]
I won't let you control my fate
while I'm holding the weight of the world on my conscience
I won't just sit here and wait
While you weighing your options you're making a fool of me
you didn't dare try to say
that you don't care you solemnly swear not to follow me there
It ain't like me to beg on my knees
oh, please, oh baby, please that's not how I'm doing things
no I'm not upset, no I'm not angry
I know love is love, love sometimes it pains me
With or without you I'll always be with you
you'll never forget me, I'm keeping you with me
won't let you take me to the end of my rope while you burn
and torture my soul
No I'm not your puppet and no, no, no I won't let you go

[Chester]
No matter how far we've come
I can't wait to see tomorrow
no matter how far we've come
I can't wait to see tomorrow
with you

You now I see keeping everything inside
With you
You now I see even when i close my eyes
With you (2x)

PPR:KUT

[Mike]
Why does it feel like night today, something in here's not right today
Why I am 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
Like a face that I hold inside, a face that awakes when I close my eyes
Face that watches every time I lie, face that laughs every time I fall
and watches everything
So I know that when its time to sink or swim
The face inside is hearing me right beneath my skin

[Chester]
Its like I'm paranoid looking over my back
Its like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin

[Rasco]
Hey yo, here we go again with the pain I feel isn't real but in my mind
But I find myself in places with names, but not faces
My memory races at speeds hundred degrees
My soul it bleeds devil must have planted the seed
Now it feels like my backs against the wall, I'm taking the fall
Whenever I call nobody's responding at all
But I don't know who I could trust they screaming my name
I need somebody to help me out of the flame

[Planet Asia]
All I'm trying to do is just master me
all I want to do is smoke a blaster beat
but something keeps talking to me consciously
responsibly it keeps haunting me
From dusk till dawn
Everything has something for ya
That voice inside of your head got you projecting Paranoia!
cold sweat shining on your face exposing your purpose and if I
ripped off your skin I'll probably find another verse
Its nothing worse than trying to bring yourself up back from the dead
so I advise you listen to that voice in the back of your head

[Chester]
Its like I'm paranoid looking over my back
Its like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin (2x)

[Mike]
The face inside is right beneath your skin (4x)

[Chester]
The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me
The sun goes down

[Mike]
Its like I'm Parnoid!

[Chester]
I feel the light betray me
The sun ahhhhhhhhhh

[Mike]
Its like I'm paranoid looking over my back
Its like a whirlwind inside of my head
Its like I can't stop what I'm hearing within
Its like the face inside is right beneath my skin (2x)

RNW@Y

[Chester]
Graffiti Skies

[Phoenix Orion]
I don't think y'all ready
Yo I don't think y'all ready

[Chester]
Graffiti decorations under a sky of grey
this constant apprehension still giving me away
the lessons I have forgotten
in spite of all I've learned
now I find myself in question
Mike: they point the finger at me again
Chester: Guilty by association
Mike: you point the finger at me again

[Chester]
I wanna runaway (I wanna runaway)
I wanna know the truth(I wanna know the truth)
I wanna know the answers (I wanna know the answers)
I wanna shut the door (and open up my mind)
and open up my mind

Paperbags and angry voices under a sky of grey
this constant apprehension wont seem to go away
all my talk of starting over
these words were never true
now I find myself in question

Point the finger at me again
Guilty by association
Point the finger at me again

[Chester]
I wanna runaway (I wanna runaway)
I wanna know the truth (I wanna know the truth)
I wanna know the answers (I wanna know the answers)
I wanna shut the door (and open up my mind)
and open up my mind

[Mike]
Gonna runwaway gonna runaway

[Phoenix Orion]
Yall not ready
Hey yo I don't think your all ready for what I am about to do
You all new schooled dudes that don't even got no clue
How dare you forget about Bam and Zulu
Cool Herc and Jazzy Jay they paved the way
Let me spit at you all who said I wasn't going to make it
Every time I blazed, you all the first to hate it
My team really keep supreme to stay strong
That's the true serious son, they're scared to put us on
Cant get with hybrids get off your hiatus
Too many asrtists dieing for us so I got to blaze it
Still repping BK, Brooklyn and Vietnam
Hell Fighting families and Aceyalone
Banging in the backyard on the LP song
I'm the new communicate, Phoenix Orion!!!

[Chester]
I wanna runaway (I wanna runaway)
I wanna know the truth (I wanna know the truth)
I wanna know the answers (I wanna know the answers)
I wanna shut the door (and open up my mind)
and open up my mind

MY<DSMBR

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 that I said to you

And I'd 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 trees
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 that I said to you

And I'd 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

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 (2x)

BY_MYSLF

[Chester]
Myself!
Myself!

[Mike]
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 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 facade but then
I just end up getting hurt again

By myself (Myself)
I ask why
But in my mind I find I can't rely on myself (Myself)
I ask why
But in my mind I find I cant rely on myself

[Chester]
I can't look around Its too much to take in
I can't hold on, When I'm stretched so thin
I can't slow down, Watching everything spin
I can't look past, Its starting over again
Mike: 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 (Myself)
I ask why
But in my mind I find I can't rely on myself (Myself)
I ask why
But in my mind I find I cant rely on myself

[Chester]
I can't look around, Its too much to take in
I can't hold on, When I'm stretched so thin
I can't slow down, Watching everything spin
I can't look past, Its starting over again

Chester: Don't You (repeated over and over again)
Chester: KNOW!
Mike: I cant tell you how to make it
Chester: Go!
Mike: NO matter what I do, how hard I
Chester: TRY!
Mike: I cant seem to convince myself
CHESTER: WHY!
Mike: I'm stuck on the outside

1STP KLOSR

[Chester]
I'm about to break...
I'm about to break..
Need room to breathe (x3)

I cannot take this anymore.
Saying everything I said before.
All these words they make no sense,
I find bliss in ignorance,
The less I hear the less you say,
You'll find that out anyway.
I find the answers aren't so clear.
I 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 (x3)

Just Like Before...

Everything you say to me
...and I'm about to break!
I need a little room to breathe
...and I'm about to break!
Everything you say to me
...and I'm about to break!
I need a little room to breathe
...And I'm about to BREAK!

[Jonathan]
These are the places where I can feel
Torn from my body, my flesh it peels...
During this frightly concurring balmy night...
Waiting alone, I cannot resist.
Filling this hate I have never missed.
Raise up my memory, a reason to rip off my face.
Blood is pouring

and pouring (9x)

SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU! SHUT UP!
Jonathan: And it's pouring!
Chester: SHUT UP!
Jonathan: And it's pouring!
Chester: SHUT UP!
Jonathan: And it's pouring!
Chester: SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU SHUT UP!
Jonathan: And it's pouring!
Chester: SHUT UP!
Jonathan: And it's pouring!
Chester: SHUT UP!
Jonathan: And it's pouring!
Chester: SHUT UP...I'm about to break!

Everything you say to me
...and I'm about to break!
I need a little room to breathe
...and I'm about to break!
Everything you say to me
...and I'm about to break!

I need a little room to breathe And I'm about to... Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the Edge...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!
Everything you say to me
...Takes me one step closer to the Edge...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...

KRWLNG

Crawling in my skin
Without a sense of confidence
Consuming, confusing
Crawling in my skin
Without a snece of confidence I'm convinced that there's just too much prssure too take
There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface

[Aaron]
Crawling In my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

[Chester]
There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming, confusing
This lack of self control I fear is never ending
Controlling

I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence I’m convinced that there’s just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

[Aaron and Chester]
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
It's haunting how I can't seem...

To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence I’m convinced that there’s just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

[Mike]
Without a sense of confidence i'm convinced that theres just too much pressure to take (4x)

[Aaron and Chester]
Crawling In my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real (2x)