Brad Delson

Yo, yo
Forfiet the game, before somebody
takes you out of the frame
Put your name to shame, cover up your face
You can't run the race, the pace is too fast, you just won't last
Wont last, wont last, wont 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 you're 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 wanna share what you've been through
(You live what you've learned)
Learned, learned, learned,
learned, learned(echo fade)

You love the things, I say I'll do
The way I 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 you're 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 wanna' share what you've been through
(You live what you've learned)

Yo, yo
Forfiet the game, before somebody takes
you out of the frame
Put your name to shame, cover up your face
You can't run the race, the pace is too fast, you just won't last
Forfiet the game,
before somebody takes you out of the frame
Put your name to shame, cover up your face
You can't run the race, the pace is too fast, you just won't last
Wont last, wont last, wont last...

You like to think you're never wrong
(You like to think you're 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 wanna share what you've been through
You like to think you're never wrong
(You like to think you're 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 wanna share what you've been through
(You live what you've learned)

Ohhhhhhh
Ohhhhhhh

Hey yo when this first started off
it was just Linkin Park
Then in the middle came Motion Man
And at the end of it all it was Kutmasta Kut wit a remix

one thing i don't know why
it doesn't even matter how hard you try
keep that in mind I designed this rhyme
when I was obsessed with time
all i know, time was just slipping way
and i watched it count down till the end of the day
watched it watch me and the words that i say
the echo of the clock rhythm in my veins
i know that i didn't look out below
and i watched the time go right out the window
trying to grab hold, trying not to watch
i wasted it all on the hands of the clock
but in the end no matter what i pretend
the journey is more important than the end or the start
and what it meant to me will eventually be
a memory of the time when i tried so hard

i tried so hard
and got so far
but in the end
it doesnt even matter
i had to fall
to lose it all
but in the end
it doesnt even matter

yo one thing, 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 the due time
all i know, time to so-socialize like the host of the party
all for shake and made eye contact
party control showing all that
northeast, southwest coast
stand out the window, no opportunity to mingle
i tried to show her,
if you could just sense a middle disorder
i brought you back of the thing
like the imaginary man of your dreams
well, you would always seem to make it worth it
a sleek skin i never nerved you
you felt lovin, i never applied a room
without bringing the plan
by any means and means of leaving you teens,
of all those teenage scenes, i tried so hard

i tried so hard
and got so far
but in the end
it doesnt even matter
i had to fall
to lose it all
but in the end
it doesnt even matter

linkin park, remix, Mo Mo Mo Motion Man
linkin park, in the end, Kutmasta Kutmasta Kut Kutmasta Kurt
linkin park, remix, Mo Mo Motion Man
linkin park, in the end, Kutmasta Kurt

one thing i don't know how
it doesn't even matter when you look at it now
because when i designed this rhyme i was scared of it all
scared to fall, i hadn't even tried to crawl
and i was forced to run, with you mocking me
stopping me, back stabbing me constantly
remembering all those times you fought with me
watch the clock now chop full of hypocrisy
and now your mouth wishes it could inhale
every single little thing you said and make it expel
every single word you sputter just to get your piece,
but it really doesn't matter to me
because from the start to the end no matter what i pretend
the journey is more important than the end or the start
and what it meant to me will eventually be
a memory of the time when i tried so hard

i tried so hard
and got so far
but in the end
it doesnt even matter
i had to fall
to lose it all
but in the end
it doesnt even matter
in the end

Whats up evich, glad you could keep me uhh detailed
Please enter your pa..
First message
Yo Mike, This is Chali 2na, whats up man?
I'm just trying to catch up witch ya so we can go on here
and get this song on the roll, pop a d...haha call me back

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

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

In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up

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

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

When I look into your eyes
There's nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes
Staring back at me

Everything has to end, you'll soon find, we're outta time,
left to watch it all unwhind
Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually
break down
Everything has to end, you'll soon find, we're outta time,
left to watch it all unwhind
Everything falls apart, even the people who never frown eventually
break down

I've lied
To you
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)
(Everything has to end, you'll soon find, we're outta time,
left to watch it all unwhind)
For sake of being with you
(Everything falls apart,
even the people who never frown eventually break down)
The sacrifice is never knowing

Why I stayed with you
Just push away
No matter what you see
You're still so blind to me

I've tried
Like you
To do everything you wanted to
This is the last time
I'll take the blame 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
(Everything has to end, you'll soon find,
we're outta time, left to watch it all unwind)
The sacrifice is never knowing

Why I stayed with you
Just push away
No matter what you see
You're still so blind to me

Reverse phsycology's failing miserably
It's 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, there's nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes staring back at me
Asking why...
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie (why)
The sacrifice is never knowing

Why I stayed with you
Just push away
No matter what you see
You're still so blind to me
Why I stayed with you
Just push away
No matter what you see
You're still so blind to me

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 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.

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

Two, Two, Three, Three, Ya, Ya, Ya, Gimme ???

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.

You know
Put a label on how you wake up every morning
And go to bed at night

Hybrid

I’ve been diggin into crates ever since I was livin in space
Before the ratrace, before monkeys had human traits
I mastered numerology and bigbang theology
Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology
Invented the mic so I could start blessin it
Chincheckin kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I twist mic cords in double helixes and show them
what I’m made of
I buckle knees like leg braces
Cast the spell of instrumental-ness and all of you emcees
who hate us
So you can try on,
Leave you without a shoulder to cry on
From now to infinity let icons be bygones
I fire bomb 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
The unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide

Akira, I put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones
Never satisfy my rhyme jones
Sprayin bright day over what you might say
My Blood type's Krylon Technicolor type A
On highways ride with road rage
Cages of wind and cages of tin that bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scene
Subliminal gangrene paintings
Over while the same thing
Sing song karaoke copy bullshit
Break bones verbally with sticks and stone tactics
Fourth dimension, combat convention
Write rhymes at ease while the track stands at attention
Meant to put you away with the pencil
Pistol, official, 16 line a rhyme missile
While you risk your all, I pick out all your flaws
Spin rah, blah blah blah
You can say you saw

High Voltage
The Unforgettable sound
High Voltage
Bringing you up and taking you down
High Voltage
Coming at you from every side
High Voltage
Making the rhythm and rhyme collide

And like the rock and rap
You know what i mean
People act like you know
Wow that’s a new invention
That shits brand new
We're constantly evolving
It is constantly changing

Sometimes...

There's a lot of change
Everybody's always up with labels
There ain’t no label for this shit
They're always gonna try to put a label on it
Try to create something
So they can water it down

Sometimes I feel like a prophet
Misunderstood
Under the gun like a new disease

Hey Mike, whats up? this is Ron, ya know, last week in the chatroom.
I was just touchin a face, see how your Easter went. Umm
I was seein if you gonna see Joe soon too,
he has my keyboard that i've been trying to get back.
I've been trying to call him,
and he hasnt been returning any message's so if ya see him give an angle to uh get it back.

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
No, no matter how far we've come I
I can't wait to see tomorrow
With you

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

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

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

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

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 (x2)
The face inside is right beneath your skin (x4)

The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me
The sun goes down

Its like I'm Parnoid!

I feel the light betray me
The sun ahhhhhhhhhh

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 (x2)

I don't think y'all ready
Yo I don't think y'all ready

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
they point the finger at me again
Guilty by association
you point the finger at me again

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 won't seem to go away
all my talk of starting over
these words were never true
now I find myself in question

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

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 (and open up my mind)

Gonna runwaway gonna runaway

Ya'll 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, ya'll 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 artists dieing for us so I got to blaze it
I'm still repreking brooklyn D and on
hell fire and family alienation
Banging hits in the backyard on the LP song
I'm the new communicate
Phoenix Orion

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 (and open up my mind)

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 I said to you

And I 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 dreams
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
I said to you

And I 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

And I give it all away
Just to have somewhere
To go to
Give it all away
To have someone
To come home to

Next message
Yo, what up? Its Stef, call me up.
I'm gonna be in town all this week,
so uhh if you wanna get that track takin care of, let
me know. Call me on my cell, later.

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 fade 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 look around
It's 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
It's starting over again

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 teill 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

I can't look around
It's 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
It's starting over again

Don't you...
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

I'd like to introduce
In your sound institute of invention of
reliable audio weapon system
Lets, lets try (gescratched)
Lets try something else
Folks, we have a very special guest for you tonight,
night, night
Break it down
Using the waves of sound
A true master paralize's his opponent,
leaving him vulnerable to attack
Mr. Hahn

I'm about to break
I'm about to break
Need room to breathe
Need room to breathe
Need room to breathe

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 found bliss in ignorance,
Nothing seems to go away,
Over and over again
Over and over again
Over and over again
Over and over again
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

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 (x9)

SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU
Shut up
And it's pouring
Shut up
And it's pouring
Shut up
And it's pouring
SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU
Shut up
And it's pouring
Shut up
And it's pouring
Shut up
And it's pouring
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

Crawling in My Skin
Consuming Confusing
Crawling in My Skin
With Out a Sense Of Confudence and i'm convinced
That There's Just too much Presssure To Take
There's Something Inside me that Pulls Besneaath the Surface
Crawling in my skin
Consuming all i feel
Fear is how i fall
Confusing What is Real (x2)
There's Something Inside me that Pulls Besneaath 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
With Out a Sense Of Confudence and i'm convinced
That There's Just too much Presssure To Take
I've Felt This way Before
So Insecure

Crawling In My Skin
Consuming all i feel
Fear is how i fall
Confusing What is Real

Discomfort Endlessly Has Pulled Itself Upon Me
Distracting ReactingAgainst My Will i Stand Beside My Own
Relfelction
It's Haunting How I Can't Seem

To Find Myself Again
My walls are Closing in
With Out a Sense Of Confudence and i'm convinced
That There's Just too much Presssure To Take

I've Felt This way Before
So Insecure

To Find Myself Again
My walls are Closing in
With Out a Sense Of Confudence and i'm convinced
That There's Just too much Presssure To Take

I've Felt This way Before
So Insecure

Crawling in my skin
Consuming all i feel
Fear is how i fall
Confusing What is Real

Crawling in my skin
Consuming all i feel
Fear is how i fall
Confusing In Confusing What Is Real

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
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 your testing me 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

* Repeat

* Repeat

We're all out of time
This is how we find how it all unwinds
The sacrifice of hiding in a lie
We're all out of time
This is how we find how it all unwinds
The sacrifice is never knowing

* Repeat

* Repeat