Linkin Park Association | A Thousand Suns

I used the deadwood to make the fire rise
The blood of innocence burning in the skies
I filled my cup with the rising of the sea
And poured it out in an ocean of debris
Oh

I'm swimming in the smoke / of bridges I have burned
So don't apologise / I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve

We held our breath as the clouds began to form
But you were lost in the beating of the storm
And, in the end, we were made to be apart
Like separate chambers of the human heart
No

I'm swimming in the smoke / of bridges I have burned
So don't apologise / I'm losing what I don't deserve
It's in the blackened bones / of bridges I have burned
So don't apologise / I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve

I'm swimming in the smoke / of bridges I have burned
So don't apologise / I'm losing what I don't deserve
The blame is mine alone / for bridges I have burned
So don't apologise / I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve

What I don't deserve / oh
What I don't deserve

I used the deadwood to make the fire rise
The blood of innocence burning in the skies

[lyricless interlude]

Yeah

I am not / a pattern to be followed
The pill that I'm on is a tough one to swallow
I'm not a criminal / not a role model
Not a born leader / I'm a tough act to follow
I am not / the fortune and the fame
Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game
I came in the ring like a dog on a chain
And found out the underbelly's sicker than it seems
And it seems ugly / but it can get worse
'Cause even a blueprint is a gift and a curse
'Cause, once you got a theory of how the thing works
Everybody wants the next thing to be just like the first
And I'm not a roboy / I'm not a monkey
I will not dance, even if the beat's funky
Opposite of lazy / far from a punk
Y'all ought to stop talkin' / start tryin' to catch up, motherfucker

And all the people say / (ah)

Try to catch up, motherfucker / (ah)

Lauryn said, money change a situation
Big said it increase the complication
Kane said, don't step, I ain't the one
Chuck said that Uzi weigh a motherfuckin' ton
And I'm just a student of the game that they taught me
Rockin' every stage in every place that it brought me
I'm awfully underrated / but came here to correct it
And, so it ain't mistaken, I'm a state it for the record
I am / the opposite of wack / opposite of weak
Opposite of slack / synonym of heat
Synonym of crack / closest to a peak / far from a punk
Y'all ought to stop talkin' / start tryin' to catch up
Motherfucker

And all the people say / (ah)

Try to catch up, motherfucker / (ah)

Oh / when they come for me
Come for me / I'll be gone
Oh / when they come for me
Come for me / I'll be gone

Oh / when they come for me
Come for me / I'll be gone

And all the people say / (ah)

Try to catch up, motherfucker / (ah)

And all the people say / (ah)

(Try to catch up, motherfucker)

(Toda la gente / preste atención / escucháme ahora mismo)

You say / you're not gonna fight
'Cause no-one will fight for you
And / you think / there's not enough love
And no-one to give it to

And / you're sure / you've hurt for so long
You've got nothing left to lose
So / you say / you're not gonna fight
'Cause no-one will fight for you

You say / the weight of the world
Has kept you from letting go
And / you think / compassion's a flaw
And you'll never let it show

And / you're sure / you've hurt in a way
That no-one will ever know
But / someday / the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go

Hold on / the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
So / hold on / the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go

So / hold on / the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
Just / hold on / the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go

持ち上げて / 解放して
持ち上げて / 解放して
持ち上げて / 解放して
持ち上げて / (解放して)

Yeah / yo

This is not the end / this is not the beginning
Just a voice like a riot / rockin' every revision
But you listen to the tone and the violent rhythm
And, though the words sound steady / something empty's within 'em
We say, yeah / with fists flyin' up in the air
Like we're holdin' onto something that's invisible there
'Cause we're livin' at the mercy of the pain and the fear
Until we dead it / forget it / let it all disappear (yeah)

Waiting for the end to come
Wishing I had strength to stand
This is not what I had planned
It's out of my control

Flying at the speed of the light
Thoughts were spinning in my head
So many things were left unsaid
It's hard to let you go

(Oh) I know what it takes to move on
(Oh) I know how it feels to lie
(Oh) All I wanna do is trade is this life for something new
Holding onto what I haven't got

Sitting in an empty room
Trying to forget the past
This was never meant to last
I wish it wasn't so

(Oh) I know what it takes to move on
(Oh) I know how it feels to lie
(Oh) All I wanna do is trade is this life for something new
Holding onto what I haven't got

(Yo, yo) / what was left when that fire was gone?
I thought it felt right but that right was wrong
All caught up in the eye of the storm
And tryin' to figure out what it's like movin' on
And I don't even know what kind of things I said
My mouth kept movin' and my mind went dead
So / pickin' up the pieces, now, where to begin?
The hardest part of ending is startin' again

All I wanna do is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got

This is not the end / this is not the beginning
Just a voice like a riot / rockin' every revision
But you listen to the tone and the violent rhythm
And, though the words sound steady / something empty's within 'em
(I'm holding onto what I haven't got)
We say, yeah / with fists flyin' up in the air
Like we're holdin' onto something that's invisible there
'Cause we're livin' at the mercy of the pain and the fear
Until we dead it / forget it / let it all disappear
(Holding onto what I haven't got)

I'm stuck in this bed you made / alone with a sinking feeling
I saw through the words you said / to the secrets you've been keeping
It's written upon your face / all the lies, how they cut so deeply
You can't get enough / you take and take and take and never say

No / you've gotta get it inside
You push it back down / you push it back down
No / you'll never get it inside
Push it back down / blackout / blood in your eye

You say that it's not your fault / instead, that I am mistaken
You said it's not what it seems / no remorse for the trust you're breaking
You run, but, then, back you fall / suffocate in the mess you're making
You can't get enough / you take and take and take and take and take
Fuck it, are you listening?

No / you've gotta get it inside
You push it back down / you push it back down
No / you'll never get it inside
Push it back down / you push it back down

No / you've gotta get it inside
You push it back down / you push it back down
No / you'll never get it inside
Push it back down / blackout / blood in your eye
(Blackout / blood in your eye)

(You push it back / push it back down)
(You push it / back down / blood in your eye)
(Blackout / blackout / blackout / blood in your eye)
(Blackout / blackout / blood in your eye)

(Blackout / blood in your eye)

Floating down / as colours fill the light
We look up from the ground / in fields of paperwhite
And, floating up / you pass us in the night
A future gazing out / a past to overwrite

So come down / far below
We've been waiting to collect the things you know
Come down / far below
We've been waiting to collect what you've let go

Come down / oh
Come down / oh
Come down / oh
Come down / oh

(Come down / oh)

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious
Makes you so sick at heart
That you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part
And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels
Upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop

To save face / how low can you go?
Talk a lot of game but, yet, you don't know
Static on the way / make us all say, whoa
The people up top push the people down low
Get down / and obey every word
Steady gettin' mine if you haven't yet heard
Wanna take what I got? / Don't be absurd
Don't / fight the power / nobody gets hurt
If you haven't heard yet, then, I'm lettin' you know
There ain't shit we don't run when the guns unload
And no-one make a move 'less my people say so
Got everything out of control / now, everybody go

Steel unload / final blow
We, the animals, take control
Hear us now / clear and true
Wretches and kings, we come for you

So keep pace / how slow can you go?
Talk a lot of shit and, yet, you don't know
Fire on the way / make you all say, whoa
The people up top and the people down low
Get down / and I'm runnin' it like that
The front of the attack is exactly where I'm at
Somewhere in-between the kick and the hi-hat
The pen and the contract / the pitch and the contact
So get with the combat / I'm lettin' 'em know
There ain't shit you can say to make me back down / no
So / push the button / let the whole thing blow
Spinnin' everything out of control / now, everybody go

Steel unload / final blow
We, the animals, take control
Hear us now / clear and true
Wretches and kings, we come for you

Steel unload / fire blow
Filthy animals / beat them low
Skin and bone / black and blue
No more this sun shall beat onto you

From the front to back and the side-to-side
If you fear what I feel, put 'em up real high
Front to back and the side-to-side
If you fear what I feel, put 'em up real high

Front to back and the side-to-side
If you fear what I feel, put 'em up real high
Front to back and the side-to-side
If you fear what I feel, put 'em up real high

Front to back and the side-to-side
If you fear what I feel, put 'em up real high
Front to back and the side-to-side
If you fear what I feel, put 'em up real high

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious
Makes you so sick at heart
That you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part
And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels
Upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop
And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it
That, unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight
Because my conscience leaves me no other choice.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war:
"This way of settling differences is not just."
This business of burning human beings with napalm,
Filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows,
Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate
Into the veins of people normally humane,
Sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged,
Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

When you were standing in the wake of devestation
When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And, with the cataclysm raining down / insides crying, save me now
You were there, impossibly alone

Do you feel cold and you lost in desperation?
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go / let it go

And, in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
You felt the gravity of tempered grace / falling into empty space
No-one there to catch you in their arms

Do you feel cold and you lost in desperation?
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go / let it go

Do you feel cold and you lost in desperation?
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go

Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go

Do you feel cold and you lost in desperation?
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go / let it go

I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologise
I'm losing what I don't deserve

The blame is mine alone
For bridges I have burned
So don't apologise
I'm losing what I don't deserve

What I don't deserve

God, bless us / every one
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought / it can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched / it can't be outrun (no)

God, bless us / every one
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought / it can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched / it can't be outrun (no)

And, when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light
(God, bless us / every one)
(We're a broken people living under loaded gun / oh)

Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky

God, save us / every one
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hand / the sins of our tongue
The sins of our father / the sins of our young? (No)

God, save us / every one
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hand / the sins of our tongue
The sins of our father / the sins of our young? (No)

And, when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light
(God, bless us / every one)
(Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns? / Oh)

Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky

(Oh) / like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky

Lift me up / let me go
Lift me up / let me go

Lift me up / let me go
Lift me up / let me go

Lift me up / let me go
Lift me up / let me go

Lift me up / let me go
Lift me up / let me go

Lift me up / let me go
Lift me up / let me go

God, bless us / every one
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought / it can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched / it can't be outrun (no)

God, bless us / every one
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought / it can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched / it can't be outrun