More the Victim Lyrics
I've— I've— I've— I've—
[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
I've listened endlessly to your injury
You wanna talk about your sores?
You wanna talk about suffering?
Maybe sympathy is all you're really hungry for
'Cause you just criticize and you fingerpoint
And you say that they beat you down
You may be victimized, but you're still the one
Who won't just get up off the ground
[Pre-Chorus: Chester Bennington & Mike Shinoda]
I used to be as innocent as you
My excuses ran out, ran out of things to complain about
Fear will always find a way to show right through
[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
You want to be more hurt than me
You want to say you're more the victim
You wanna complain and pass the blame
You want to say you're more thе victim
[Post-Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
You— You wanna— You— You— You wanna— You—
You— You wanna— You— You—
You wanna talk constantly about misery
And how you've been done so wrong
You wanna bеnd your honesty and exaggerate
With the stress that you've undergone
There's never a compromise, no one can say
That they've ever been hurt before
They may be victimized, but you'll always say
That you're a victim so much more
[Pre-Chorus: Chester Bennington & Mike Shinoda]
I used to be as innocent as you
My excuses ran out, ran out of things to complain about
Fear will always find a way to show right through
[Chorus: Chester Bennington]
You want to be more hurt than me
You want to say you're more the victim
You wanna complain and pass the blame
You want to say you're more the victim
[Bridge: Chester Bennington]
You wanna be just another someone
Somebody angry, somebody broken
You wanna be that, then be it all alone
You want to be more hurt than me
You want to say you're more the victim
You wanna complain and pass the blame
You want to say you're more the victim
[Outro: Chester Bennington]
You want to be more hurt than me
You want to say you're more the victim
You wanna complain and pass the blame
Pass the blame, pass the blame
About
“More The Victim” is a song from the Meteora recording sessions that was officially released from the 20th Anniversary Edition of Meteora.
“More The Victim” was one of the 15 songs that made it to the end of the sessions for Meteora in 2002. On the band’s song board at NRG Studios, its demo title, “Cumulus”, was seen as the very first song on the board that Linkin Park was working on.
In 2013, Linkin Park released “Cumulus”, an instrumental demo, on the LP Underground XIII CD. In the booklet, Mike Shinoda wrote: “We tried many times to make this song work, but it always seemed too poppy for the album(s) we were currently working on.”
The existence of “More The Victim”, the vocal version of the song was revealed for the first time in the Meteora 20 tracklist.
The instrumental on “More The Victim” is an evolved form of “Cumulus”, with a slightly different sample pattern, a different guitar part, live drums, strings, scratching, and
more.
Words that Chester spray-painted on the Meteora art wall of “somebody angry broken” are from the bridge of “More The Victim.” It was first seen in The Making Of Meteora.
It can also be seen in the Meteora booklet.
It would also be further shown in pictures of the Meteora art wall in unreleased photo proofs that can be seen when you click on the art wall in the warehouse on Linkin Park’s website.
“More The Victim” was debuted for the first time on Howard Stern with Mike Shinoda as a guest on February 14th, 2023, with “Fighting Myself.”
The song is written by Mike Shinoda about a story told to him by Chester Bennington about a person who was hurt but wanted to always to seem the one with the most pain and Chester expressed his anger towards this person. All this was revealed in his interview with Howard Stern on Febuary 14th, 2023. https://youtu.be/245si_wNDuQ
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
- 1.Lost
- 3.More the Victim
- 4.Massive
- 5.Healing Foot
- 13.Wesside
- 14.Resolution
