✭ ✮ Linkin Park || Hybrid Theory Starters ✮✭
❝ 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 that watches every time I lie--A face that laughs every time I fall!❞
❝ 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!❞
❝ 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.❞
❝ The sun goes down and I feel the light betray me--!❞
❝ 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.❞
❝ The 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-- I'm about to break!!❞
❝ I need a little room to breathe cause I'm one step closer to the edge!❞
❝ I find the answers aren't so clear and I wish I could find a way to disappear.❞
❝ I woke up in a dream today to the cold of the static and put my cold feet on the floor--I forgot all about yesterday.❞
❝ I’m 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.❞
❝ So 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 as promised by your face.❞
❝ The sound of your voice is painted on my memories.❞
❝ Even if you’re not with me, I’m with you.❞
❝ I hit you and you hit me back-- the rest of the day stood still.❞
❝ When things go wrong I pretend the past isn’t real.❞
❝ Now I'm trapped in this memory.❞
❝ No matter how far we've come--I can't wait to see tomorrow.❞
❝ 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 and you just 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--but you’ve lived what you’ve learned.❞
❝ You have to act like you're someone and you want someone to hurt like you.❞
❝ You want to share what you have been through.❞
❝ You love the things I say I'll do--the way I hurt myself again just to get back at you!❞
❝ 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.❞
❝ I can't seem...to find myself again.❞
❝ Without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that 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..❞
❝ A constant wave of tension--on top of broken trust--the lessons that you taught me I learned were never true.❞
❝ 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 and never say goodbye.❞
❝ I wanna know the truth instead of wondering why.❞
❝ I wanna know the answers--no more lies.❞
❝ I wanna shut the doors and open up my mind.❞
❝ Another wave of tension has more than filled me up.❞
❝ All my talk of taking action--these words were never true.❞
❝ i wanna run away and open up my mind.❞
❝ 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.❞
❝ I can’t hold on to anything, watching everything spin--with thoughts of failure sinking in!❞
❝ If I turn my back I’m defenseless.❞
❝ 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.❞
❝ How do you think I’ve lost so much?❞
❝ I'm so afraid that 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.❞
❝It starts with one thing and I don't know why because It doesn’t even matter how hard you try.❞
❝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.❞
❝I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart..❞
❝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.❞
❝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.❞
❝I watch how the moon sits in the sky in the dark night--shining with the light from the sun.❞
❝And the sun doesn't give light to the moon assuming that the moon’s gonna owe it one.❞
❝It makes me think of how you act for me--you do favors and then rapidly just turn around and start asking me about things that you want back from me.❞
❝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 mean 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.❞
❝And now you see how quiet it is, all alone.❞
❝At the core I’ve forgotten--the middle of my thoughts.❞
❝Taken far from my safety--the picture is there .❞
❝The memory won’t escape me..but why should I care?❞
❝There’s a place so dark you can’t see the end, the skies cock back and shock that which can’t defend.❞
❝The rain then sends dripping an acidic question--forcefully, the power of suggestion.❞
❝Then with the eyes shut, looking thought the rust and rot--And dust-- a small spot of light floods the floor.❞
❝Light pours over the rusted world of pretend.❞
❝The eyes ease open and its dark again.❞
❝In the memory you’ll find me with my eyes burning up.❞
❝The darkness holds me tightly until the sun rises up.❞
❝Moving all around--the screaming of the ups and downs is pollution manifested in perpetual sound .❞
❝My memory now is like the picture was then--when the paper’s crumpled up it can’t be perfect again.❞
❝I've lied to you the same way that I always do--this is the last smile that I’ll fake for the sake of being with you.❞
❝Everything falls apart--even the people who never frown eventually break down.❞
❝The sacrifice of hiding in a lie is that everything has to end.❞
❝You'll soon find we're out of time left to watch it all unwind.❞
❝The Sacrifice is never knowing why I never walked away, why I played myself this way.❞
❝Now I see, you’re testing me--and it pushes me away.❞
❝I've tried like you to do everything you wanted too.❞
❝This is the last time I'll take the blame for the sake of being with you.❞
