It starts with one

One thingI don't know whyIt doesn't even matter how hard you tryKeep that in mindI designed this rhymeTo explain in due time

All I know

Time is a valuable thing

Watch it fly by as the pendulum swingsWatch it count down 'till the end of the dayThe clock ticks life away

It's so unreal

You didn't look out belowWatch the time go right out the windowTrying to hold on, to didn't even knowI wasted it all just to

Watch you go

I kept everything insideAnd even though I triedIt all fell apartWhat it meant to me will eventuallyBe a memory of a time when

I've tried so hardAnd got so farBut in the endIt doesn't even matterI had to fallTo lose it all

But in the endIt doesn't even matter

One thing, I don't know whyIt doesn't even matter how hard you tryKeep that in mind I designed this rhymeTo remind myself how

I've tried so hard

In spite of the way you were mocking meActing like I was part of your property

Remembering all the times you fought with meI'm surprised, it

Got so far

Things aren't the way they were beforeYou wouldn't even recognize me anymoreNot that you wouldn't knew me, back thenBut it all comes back to me

In the end

You kept everything insideAnd even though I triedIt all fell apartWhat it meant to me will eventuallyBe a memoryOf a time when

I've tried so hardAnd got so farBut in the endIt doesn't even matterI had to fallTo lose it all

But in the endIt doesn't even matter

I've put my trust in youPushed as far as I can goFor all thisThere's only one thing you should've known

I've tried so hardAnd got so farBut in the endIt doesn't even matterI had to fallTo lose it all

But in the endIt doesn't even matter

Why does it feel like night today?Something in here's not right todayWhy am I so uptight today?Paranoia's all I got leftI don't know what stressed me firstOr how the pressure was fedBut I know just what it feels likeTo have a voice in the back of my headIt's like a face that I hold insideA face that awakes when I close my eyesA face watches every time I lie

A face that laughs every time I fall(And watches everything)So I know that when it's time to sink or swimThat the face inside is hearing meRight underneath my skin

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my backIt's like aWhirlwind inside of my headIt's like ICan't stop what I'm hearing withinIt's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

I know I've got a face in mePoints out all my mistakes to meYou've got a face on the inside too

andYour paranoia's probably worseI don't know what set me off firstBut I know what I can't standEverybody acts like the fact of the matter isI can't add up to what you canBut everybody has a face that they hold insideA face that awakes when they close their eyesA face watches everytime they lieA face that laughs everytime they fall(And watches everything)So you know that when it's time to sink or swimThat the face inside is watching you tooRight inside your skin

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my backIt's like aWhirlwind inside of my headIt's like ICan't stop what I'm hearing withinIt's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my backIt's like aWhirlwind inside of my headIt's like ICan't stop what I'm hearing withinIt's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

The face inside is right beneath your skinThe face inside is right beneath your skinThe face inside is right beneath your skin

The sun goes downI feel the light betray meThe sun goes downI feel the light betray me

(The Sun)

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my backIt's like aWhirlwind inside of my headIt's like I

Can't stop what I'm hearing withinIt's like the face inside is right beneath my skin (I feel The light betray me - the sun)

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my backIt's like aWhirlwind inside of my headIt's like ICan't stop what I'm hearing withinIt's like ICan't stop what I'm hearing withinIt's like ICan't stop what I'm hearing withinIt's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

I'm tired of being what you want me to beFeeling so faithless, lost under the surfaceI don't know what you're expecting of mePut under the pressureOf walking in your shoes(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)Every step that I take is another mistake to you(Caught in the undertow, just caught

in the undertow)

[Refrão]I've become so numbI can't feel you thereBecome so tiredSo much more awareI'm becoming thisAll I want to doIs be more like meAnd be less like you

Can't you see that you're smothering meHolding too tightlyAfraid to lose control'Cause everything that you thought I would beHas fallen apart right in front of you

(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)Every step that I take is another mistake to you(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)And every second I waste is more than I can take

[Refrão]I've become so numbI can't feel you thereBecome so tiredSo much more awareI'm becoming thisAll I want to doIs be more like meAnd be less like you

And I knowI may end up failing tooBut I knowYou were just like meWith someone disappointed in you

I've become so numbI can't feel you thereI'm Become so tiredSo much more awareI'm becoming thisAll I want to doIs be more like meAnd be less like youI've become so numb I can't feel you there(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)I've become so numb I can't feel you

there(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)

Memories consumeLike opening the woundI'm picking me apart againYou all assumeI'm safe here in my roomUnless I try to start again

I don't want to be the oneThe battles always choose

'Cause inside I realizeThat I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting forOr why I have to screamI don't know why I instigateAnd say what I don't mean

I don't know how I got this wayI know it's not alrightSo I'm breaking the habitI'm breaking the habitTonight

Clutching my cureI tightly lock the doorI try to catch my breath againI hurt much moreThan anytime beforeI had no options left again

I don't want to be the oneThe battles always choose'Cause inside I realizeThat I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting forOr why I have to scream

I don't know why I instigateAnd say what I don't mean

I don't know how I got this wayI'll never be alrightSo I'm breaking the habitI'm breaking the habitTonight

I'll paint it on the walls'Cause I'm the one at faultI'll never fight againAnd this is how it ends

I don't know what's worth fighting forOr why I have to screamBut now I have some clarityTo show you what I mean

I don't know how I got this wayI'll never be alrightSo I'm breaking the habitI'm breaking the habitI'm breaking the habitTonight

[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]I am a little bit of loneliness a little bit of disregardHandful of complaints but I can’t help the fact that everyone can see these scarsI am what I want you to want what I want you to feelBut it's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you, to just believe this is realSo I let go, watching you, turn your back like you always doFace away and pretend that I'm notBut I'll be here cause you're all that I got

[Chorus: Chester Bennington]I can't feel the way I did beforeDon't turn your back on me

I won't be ignoredTime won't heal this damage anymoreDon't turn your back on meI won't be ignored

[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda]I am a little bit insecure a little unconfidentCause you don't understand I do what I can but sometimes I don't make senseI am what you never wanna say but I've never had a doubtIt's like no matter what I do I can't convince you for once just to hear me outSo I let go watching you turn your back like you always doFace away and pretend that I'm notBut I'll be here cause you're all that I've got

[Chorus]

[Bridge: Chester Bennington]NowHear me out nowYou're gonna listen to me, like it or notRight nowHear me out nowYou're gonna listen to me, like it or notRight now

I can't feel the way I did beforeDon't turn your back on meI won't be ignored

[Chorus X2]