Linkin Park

Who cares when someone's time runs out,

If a moment is all we are

Or quicker, quicker.

Who cares if one more light goes out...

Well I do.

Yeah, yo

You were that foundation

never gonna be another one, no.

I followed, so taken, so conditioned,

I could never let go.

Then sorrow, then sickness,

Then the shock when you flip it on me

So hollow, so vicious, so afraid

I couldn't let myself see

That I could never be held, back or up,

no, I hold myself.

Check the rep, yep, you know my mine well.

Forget the rest, let them know my hell.

There and back, yet my soul ain't sell.

Kept respect up the best they fell.

Let the rest be the tale they tell,

that I was there saying...

'Cause you don't know what you've got,

Oh you don't know what you've got,

No you don't know what you've got,

It's your battle to be fought.

No you don't know what you've got,

'Til it's gone.

Forgetting all the hurt inside

You've learned to hide so well

Pretending someone else can come and save me

From myself

I can't be who you are.

I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away.

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.

Test my will, test my heart,

Let me tell you how the odds gonna stack up.

Y'all go hard, I go smart.

How's it working out for y'all in the back, huh?

I've seen that frustration

Big cross, they're lost but don't know

And I've come back unshaken

Let down, I've lived and let go

So you can let it be known

I don't hold back, I hold my own

I can't be mapped, I can't be cloned.

I can't sing flat, it ain't my tone

I can't fall back, I came too far

Hold myself up and love my scars

Let the bells ring wherever they are

'Cause I was there saying...

With blackbirds following me,

I'm digging out my grave.

They close in, swallowing me.

The pain, it comes in waves,

I'm getting back what I gave.

Take me down to the river bend,

Take me down to the fighting end.

Wash the poison from off my skin,

Show me how to be whole again.