Genius Lyrics
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Linkin Park – In the End
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“In the End” is mainly based on one person’s failure.
Its most possible meaning is that it’s about time wasted on trying to build a relationship with a girl who doesn’t want to be
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Linkin Park – Battle Symphony
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“Battle Symphony” is about personal conflict, focusing on the sensation of hearing voices inside your head as if they were a symphony.
Produced by Brad Delson & Mike Shinoda, the
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Linkin Park – Numb
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“Numb” is the third single and the final track of Linkin Park’s second studio album, Meteora.
One of Linkin Park’s most well known and critically acclaimed songs, “Numb” topped
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Linkin Park – Pictureboard
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Considered a “holy grail” for Linkin Park fans, “Pictureboard” is a song by Linkin Park that created a myth surrounding it due to mentions of it from Mike Shinoda during fan
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Linkin Park – Sorry for Now
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A song from the other side of Fort Minor’s “Where’d You Go,” “Sorry For Now” is about the sacrifices that Mike’s kids can’t quite understand yet. He doesn’t want to constantly be
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Linkin Park – Iridescent
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The band’s fourth and final single off A Thousand Suns. It’s a “rock ballad about HOPE amongst chaos and sadness” according to the band.
Joe Hahn, the band’s turntablist, who
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Linkin Park – Halfway Right
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A song sung by Chester Bennington with no (or very little) background support from Mike Shinoda or any other band member, “Halfway Right” is a half and half track itself. Partly an
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Linkin Park – Talking to Myself
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First premiered at the Maximus Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 6th of May 2017, Talking To Myself is the third track off One More Light.
This song is primarily aimed at
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Linkin Park – Easier to Run
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“Easier to Run” is the sixth track off of Linkin Park’s second album, Meteora.
Rob’s playing on this track is extraordinary. He found a way to make this complex drum pattern sound
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Linkin Park – Blackout
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Number 9 track off Linkin Park’s 2010 concept album A Thousand Suns, produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. Chester Bennington features aggressive freestyle-verses while Mike
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Linkin Park – I’LL BE GONE
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On “I’ll Be Gone”, Chester Bennington’s metallic vocals come from a character who’s either forced or chooses to leave home before the sun comes up. Amidst the lo-bit glitch and
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Linkin Park – Valentine's Day
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The song is about separation from a loved one – and thus having to spend Valentine’s day in solitude.
Other themes of the song include burial and death, and therefore there is some
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Linkin Park (Ft. Pusha T & Stormzy) – Good Goodbye
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Linkin Park’s collaboration with Pusha T and Stormzy is partially inspired by Mike Shinoda’s love of basketball. The song uses fouling out of a game as metaphor for the end of a
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Linkin Park – The Messenger
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“The Messenger” is the fifteenth and final track off the album, A Thousand Suns. It serves as a distinct closer to the album, removing the electronic influence prevalent in the
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Linkin Park – War
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The most punk rock influenced song on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album – The Hunting Party, “War” hammers home a message of all the cruelties, atrocities and barbarities of war.
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Linkin Park – BURN IT DOWN
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“Burn It Down” is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was released to radio stations as well as a digital download on April 16, 2012, as the lead single from their
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Linkin Park – Fighting Myself
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“Fighting Myself” is a song from the Meteora recording sessions that was officially released as the second pre-release song from the 20th Anniversary Edition of Meteora. Originally
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Linkin Park – LOST IN THE ECHO
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The first track and second single off of Linkin Park’s fifth album, “Living Things”.
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JAY-Z & Linkin Park – Big Pimpin' / Papercut
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This track is from the Collision Course album, containing 6 mashups between Jay-Z and Linkin Park songs.
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Linkin Park – Until It's Gone
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The seventh track on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album, The Hunting Party, “Until It’s Gone” builds on the famous proverb: “You don’t know what you have until its gone”.
Rapper
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Linkin Park – POWERLESS
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The song is very reminiscent of Chester’s side project, Dead By Sunrise. The song was written by co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda and producer Rick Rubin. This is the only Linkin Park
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Linkin Park – Lost
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“Lost” is a song from the Meteora recording sessions that was officially released on February 10th, 2023 as the first pre-release song from the 20th Anniversary Edition of Meteora.
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Linkin Park – Breaking the Habit
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“Breaking the Habit” is the fifth and final single on Linkin Park’s 2003 album, Meteora.
Mike Shinoda wrote the track, inspired by his friend’s drug addiction.
Chester
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Linkin Park – Forgotten (Demo)
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[Pre-Chorus: Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda] / 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
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Linkin Park (Ft. Rakim) – Guilty All the Same
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The third track on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album, The Hunting Party, “Guilty All the Same” is about how people like to play the blame game and point out mistakes in others and
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Linkin Park (Ft. Page Hamilton) – All for Nothing
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The energetically-charged second track on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album, The Hunting Party.
Features guest vocals from Page Hamilton of Helmet.
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Linkin Park – From the Inside
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“From the Inside” is Linkin Park’s fourth single and tenth track on their Meteora record.
Dave “Phoenix” Farrell came up with the original guitar idea for this song while
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Linkin Park – With You
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“With You” is the third song off of Linkin Park’s debut album, Hybrid Theory, and is one of their beginning rap-rock mixes that helped them to push the mix of rap and rock in the
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Linkin Park – Burning in the Skies
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Burning in the Skies is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. It was announced as the band’s third single from their fourth studio album A Thousand Suns, after The Catalyst and
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Linkin Park – Sharp Edges
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Despite the uplifting, poppy melody and the folk-inspired instrumentation that accompanies this song, Sharp Edges is lyrically a wistful reminiscence where Chester recounts the
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Linkin Park – Papercut
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“Papercut” is the first song off Linkin Park’s first album, Hybrid Theory.
It is one of their most well known songs. However, it wasn’t officially released as a single in the U.S.
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Linkin Park (Ft. Kiiara) – Heavy
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“Heavy” centers around the emotional weight of fixating on oneself. It is the first single from Linkin Park’s seventh studio album.
Chester Bennington said in an interview with
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Linkin Park (Ft. Zion I) – Plc.4 Mie Hæd
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Track 7 on Linkin Park’s first remix album, Reanimation features guest work from Californian hip-hop duo, Zion I.
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JAY-Z & Linkin Park – Jigga What / Faint
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[Intro: Jay-Z & Mike Shinoda] / Uh-huh uh-huh, jigga what (Yeah) / Uh-huh uh-huh, jigga who / Uh-huh uh-huh, jigga what / Uh-huh uh-huh, jigga who / Uh-huh uh-huh, jigga what / You
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Linkin Park – Robot Boy
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This song appears as the sixth track on A Thousand Suns. It is one of the most layered vocal recordings of Linkin Park to date, with three-part harmonies, Mike and Chester singing
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Linkin Park – And One
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[Verse 1: Chester Bennington] / 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
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Linkin Park – Don't Stay
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This track is a subliminal diss aimed at their old label management who tried to destroy them.
Some songs where Mike talks about this are: “Get Me Gone”, “High Road” and “Hit The
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