The song that impacted you the most lyrically

[Hybrid]

One song impacted me the most.

Iridescent.

I have said multiple times that this was not only my favorite Linkin Park song, but my favorite song ever. And for very good reason. I had a very hard bout with depression and really suffered through so much in my past. When I listened to the leak of ATS back in September, I really enjoyed most of the album...and then "Iridescent" came up and sealed the deal. Seriously. That was the first LP song that made me cry the first time through (and the second time through). It's like the band wrote the song specifically for me and everyone who went through what I went through. And I don't care what any of you guys say, but the gang vocals and the whole ending of the song are my favorite parts. I told myself "I found the perfect song." But I chose not to listen to it for a while, as it was too special for me to overplay.

A few months later, my girlfriend broke up with me over heart-breaking reasons to me. Of course, the two songs that really got me going were "Waiting for the End" and, yup, "Iridescent". That was the moment I started to overplay "Iridescent" (and I'm glad I did), and whenever that song pops up anywhere, I stop whatever I'm doing and just sing my heart out.

"Iridescent" was so special that I request this song to be the last song to play at my funeral when I die; that's how much this song means to me. A Thousand Suns was a total masterpiece, and once again, I thank Linkin Park for making the album of my life.

You're not the only one who cried upon first listen to that song, homie.

[Broman]

I don't fear death, but I do fear what happens after death. How will i be remembered? Will I even be remembered? How long will i be remembered for? Will I be appreciated for the good in my life or the bad? Its these questions that perfectly relate me with "Leave Out All The Rest".

"After my dreaming, I woke with this fear. What am I leaving, when I'm done here. So if your asking me i want you to know. When my time comes, forget the wrong that i've done. Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed and Don't resent me and when your feeling empty, keep me in your memory. Leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest..."

[Ambush Reality]

Definitely From the Inside and Leave out All the Rest. Two songs I've always been able to easily relate to, although I love the meanings of nearly every LP song.

[aKaRiot]

Jesus.

Hybrid Theory in itself is still the most relatable album I've ever heard in my life


The Little Things Give You Away, Breaking The Habit (Nothing drug related), Burning In The Skies, and Waiting For The ENd all hit home also

The Reanimation version of Pushing Me Away reminds me of high school heartache

[Zane]

Robot Boy

[Geki]

I can honestly now say that In My Remains, Powerless and Castle Of Glass all relate to me on personal levels now. I'll make a list of all LP songs that I relate to personally from all 4 albums, I won't count b-sides and demos.

Crawling
Easier To Run
Numb (Sadly)
Given Up
Leave Out All The Rest
What I've Done
In Pieces
Burning In The Skies
Iridescent
The Messenger (When I am away from my family)
In My Remains
Castle Of Glass
Powerless

[arbiter]

Iridescent.

I don't know why the lyrics get to me but the imagery and emotions it generate always blows me away because i can't help but imagine the bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the people that experienced it. I had such high hopes for the music video but it was murdered so violently by irrelevant Transformers.

[linkinparkthebest]

Iridescent, Burning in the Skies, Waiting for the End, The Catalyst, Leave out All the Rest and from Living Things it is Roads Untraveled .

[lpxerotheoryfan]

This response was taken from the "How Linkin Park Changed My Life" and "5 Albums That Changed Your Life Thread."

In high school, for me, the best way to avoid confrontation was to ignore everybody and everything else. I became very self centered and put up walls to block everybody out. I did this to avoid being bullied, as I was my whole life in school. I shut up, kept my head down and thought about how I wanted to get back at people. I was the kid who sat alone at the lunch table. At the time, I wasn't fine with that. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be one of the people at the "popular table." I wanted to be one of the kids who stepped all over me. The ones who punched me. The ones who stole my lunch. The ones who sneezed, spit and coughed on me. I wanted to be more, but felt like nothing. I started listening to Korn quite a bit because I felt I could relate a little. Still, I felt empty. I begged and pleaded for them to stop as I took my high school classmates' abuse for a year. Tired of it all, without an end in sight, I wanted out of my life. I felt that things would be better off without me. One day when I got home from school, I turned on the radio to do my homework and I heard a song on the radio that would change my life.


"I cannot take this anymore
Saying everything I've said before
All these words, they make no sense
I found bliss in ignorance
Less I hear, the less you say
You'll find that out anyway
Just like before

I find the answers aren't so clear
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
Just like before

Everything you say to me
(Takes me one step closer to the edge)
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
('Cause I'm one step closer to the edge)
I'm about to break

Shut up when I'm talking to you
Shut up"

I never heard a song that I could relate to so much before. It was almost as if the writer of the song had me in mind when they wrote it. Every lyric in the song made me feel more alive than I ever had before. It finally felt like somebody understood me. I used this song as my motivation. The day the album came out, I skipped class and bought it with my lunch money. I listened to the album from front to back thinking about how I wasn't sure about the rapping. Unsure, I listened again and actually read the words to the song. I was elated to find that some how I could relate to just about every word in the entire album. To say I had a new favorite band here was an understatement. I was enamored with not only their music, but with their artistic style as well. I bugged the hell out of the guy at the record shop to order in Linkin Park shirts. I told everybody I could at school about the band (even though "Crawling" and "In The End" helped with that). I wrote "Linkin Park" on my black backpack with white out. In my study hall I wrote out the lyrics to the songs of Hybrid Theory as I sang them in my head. This album made me feel like someone else cares because they went through what I was going through. They survived. I was going to as well. Hybrid Theory Saved my life.

Great post man, I know exactly how you feel. Hybrid Theory has helped me through SO much in my life, that's why I consider it one of my favourite albums.

But for my song choice, I will have to pick Breaking the Habit.

"clutching my cure, I tightly lock the door.
I try to catch my breath again.
I hurt much more, than any time before.
I had no options left again"

Actually, I can't just pick one! Breaking the Habit, Shadow of the Day, and Waiting for the End are the only songs that really make me feel overly emotional when I hear them. I dont know what it is, but sometimes I find myself having to skip WFTE, it's such a beautiful song though.

[Filip]

Robot Boy. Best lyrics ever.

[Bam!]

ILL BE GONE! It is helping me get out of a hard time in my life. It is literally helping right now.

[blindrage_kat]

I think I'd have to go with 'Somewhere I Belong'.
Gets me everytime.

[Ignite]

Iridescent, Leave Out All the Rest, Waiting for the End

Iridescent really struck me because it reminds me of the struggles I had to overcome in the past yet I still get trapped in the cycle and it never ends. I've always been a loner all my life and still suffering from depression. I'm already 21 and I can count the friends I have with 1 hand so I just use music and the internet as my outlet. "Do you feel cold and lost in desperation, You build up hope but failure's all you've known", I've always felt this way, "You felt the gravity of tempered grace, Falling into empty space, No one there to catch you in their arms" describes how I've always wanted to get out of this mess, wishing someone would save me from the pits but it's just not happening.

The same for LOATR, "I dreamed I was missing You were so scared, But no one would listen 'Cause no one else cared", I want to make an impact and leave a mark but in the end, it doesn't even matterrerrrrr no one really cares. Still you hope that when you're gone, you want people to overlook your faults and realize that you actually did something worthwile since I've always felt like a failure.

Waiting for the End like Iridescent, made me break down on first listen. It may sound like a break up song to most of you but I've never been in a relationship so I can't relate. I interpreted it as wishing everything would just disappear and you're hoping for something better but it won't come. I like the 2nd verse the most "We say Yeah! With fists flying up in the air Like we're holding onto something That's invisible there, 'Cause we're living at the mercy of The pain and the fear Until we dead it, Forget it, Let it all disappear." especially the last line. You pretend everything is okay and going smoothly but in reality, I'm just riding on the stream because I don't know my purpose but I keep holding on that invisible thread, hoping it will change somehow, but it's pointless because it's invisible and doesn't exist. The other incredible part of the song is when it starts to build up to the climax where the first verse and the chorus overlaps and Chester shouts "Holding on to what I haven't got!!!!" and at that point you just want to give it up and let go.

[Juliet]

This thread is awesome. Makes me go back and listen to the songs from a whole different perspective. Helps me understand the message that is being conveyed and appreciate it so much more.

[Ignite]

This thread is awesome. Makes me go back and listen to the songs from a whole different perspective. Helps me understand the message that is being conveyed and appreciate it so much more.

Right?! Especially HT songs, back in the day I didn't bother reading the lyrics and most LP songs were just headbangers and the raps you just memorize for the sake of, you know.. to sing along. It's easy to dismiss LP's lyrics 'coz they're pigeon-holed in a been-there-done-that genre, but I'm glad I was wrong


Another thing I like about LP songs is that they're very relatable and not the same love shit that every other band is into

[Puresque]

Dedicated.
"Don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night."
Why? Because way too often I tend to let other people decide whats wrong and whats right in my life, my happiness depends immensly on other peoples opinions. I got that sentence tattooed on my foot and whenever I'm about to feel bad due to other people again, I read that line and remember that at the end of the day it's me I have to be comfortable with.

[PandasFTW]

LEAVE OUT ALL THE REST
Although i'm only 14 i feel the same as Broman. I think LOATR's music video is the best mv ever made, cause i'm fascinated of the possibility to travel across the universe and all space things in general, while also being scared of the thought that the universe is endless, cause i think it's illegitimate and the coaction of these two themes makes it perfect, cause i'm scared and fascinated at the same time of it (LOATR's MV). I remember back in 2008, when i didn't have a computer i watched viva the whole day, always hoping LOATR will be shown again.

[Zane]

Mike's verse in LOST IN THE ECHO and the entirety of ROADS UNTRAVELED.

[franktaiwan]

Crawling & Breaking the Habit.

[Hybrid]

Great post man, I know exactly how you feel. Hybrid Theory has helped me through SO much in my life, that's why I consider it one of my favourite albums.

But for my song choice, I will have to pick Breaking the Habit.

"clutching my cure, I tightly lock the door.
I try to catch my breath again.
I hurt much more, than any time before.
I had no options left again"

Actually, I can't just pick one! Breaking the Habit, Shadow of the Day, and Waiting for the End are the only songs that really make me feel overly emotional when I hear them. I dont know what it is, but sometimes I find myself having to skip WFTE, it's such a beautiful song though.

Just got to see this. Thank you.