I didn't think that I had a debt to pay
'Til they came to take what I had left away
You said you won't put me to the test today
But I remember you saying that yesterday
There was a time when your mind wasn't out of control
Every memory and confession born out of your soul
Like a pill you couldn't swallow so it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that

Broken down
A victim of your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies

I don't know what I thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I fought for my place
To drop what I made, thought you might say so
I'm guessing that you probably know
When your inside's hollow and you want to be cold
Like a pill hard to swallow so it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home
And like that

Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies

You're faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of your soul
Forsaken, what would take me?
Analyzing by the power of your soul
Broken down, a victim of your
Faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of your soul
Broken down, a victim of your
Lies

You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind

Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies

Where should I start
Disjointed heart
I've got no commitment to my own flesh and blood
Left all alone
Far from my home
No one to hear me, to heal my ill heart
I keep it locked up inside
Cannot express
To the point I've regressed
If anger's a gift, then I guess I've been blessed
I keep it locked up inside
Keep my distance from your lies

It's too late to love me now
You have never shown me
It's too late to love me now
You don't even know me

Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Breaking a part of my heart to find release (break)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace (me)
Breaking a part of my heart to find release (down)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Keep it locked up inside
Keep my distance from your lies

Breaking a part of my heart to find release (break)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace (me)
Breaking a part of my heart to find release (down)
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace
Breaking a part of my heart to find release
Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Keep my distance
Keep my distance
Keep my distance
Keep my distance

Spit drips from the jaw of the witless witness
Cryptic colloquialism shifts your midriff
But, all I do is embark the shadows of smog
With my thought catalogue, analogue, rap-catalog
Keep my distance and fear resistance
Hurt by persistance, the twisted web of tangled lies
Strangles my hopes to waste and numbs the taste
And I'm forced to face these hate crimes
Against the state of being, feeling the weightlessness
Pressed between the ceiling, reeling around a room
Riding a bubble of sound, proof it's the frequency
Making your shit shake with every boom
Involuntary muscle contraction; ignoring, not thinking
Musical gas, fumes, euphoria
The sound pounds to make the dead flush
To have you a head rush
With red rhymes and said stuff

Note: This song was originally recorded in 1999 around the same time as the Hybrid Theory EP. It was kept in the archives until being released on the limited edition LPUnderground v2.0 CD.

I have a dream of a scene between the green hills
Clouds pull away and the sunlight is revealed
People don't talk about keepin' it real
It's understood that they actually will
And intoxicated and stimulated emcees
Starin' the in trees, paranoid are gone with the breeze
Watch them flee
Hip hop heads take a walk with me, and what you'll see
Is a land where the sand's made of crushed up wax
And the sky beyond you is krylon blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme
Emcees have left materialism behind them
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night

Because,
This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to where ever music lives
Dedicated to those, tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real
It's the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real
It's the kids who think they don't belong
What's real
It's the kids who have no where to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun

I've seen a lot of sh*t
I've talked to a bum out on Sunset Strip
He asked me "How would you feel if everybody acted like you didn't exist?"
You'd lose your grip, probably eventually flip
So let it be known, the only reason that we do this
Is so you can pick it up and just bang your head to it
While emcees fight to see who can be the Commonist
We float overhead like a space odyssey monolith
Overseeing the game, over being part of the same old thing, it's all gonna change
In a hurricane of darkness and pain and acidic rain and promises you won't do it again
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through alright
Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night

Because
This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to where ever music lives
Dedicated to those, tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real
It's the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real
It's the kids who think they don't belong
What's real
It's the kids who have no where to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun

Pullin' me close the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide
Pullin' me close the shadow is warm inside
This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide

This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to where ever music lives
Dedicated to those, tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real
It's the kids who know that something's wrong
What's real
It's the kids who think they don't belong
What's real
It's the kids who have no where to run
Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun

This is dedicated to the kids
Dedicated to where ever music lives
Dedicated to those, tired of the same old same
And dedicated to the people advancin' the game
What's real
Everybody who doesn't feel safe
What's real
Everybody who knows they're out of place
What's real
Everybody with no where to run
Who hide in the shadows waiting for the sun

Thanks to |2awk.Star.

I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadents
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled

But it's on the table
The fire's cooking
And they're farming babies
The slaves are all working

Blood is on the table
The mouths are choking
But I'm goin' hungry
Yeah

I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of decadents
But I can't feed on the powerless
When my cup's already overfilled
Yeah

But it's on the table
The fire is cooking
And they're farming babies
And the slaves are all working

Blood is on the table
Their mouths are choking
But I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)

I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)

But I don't mind stealing bread
I don't mind
No I don't mind stealing bread

I'm going hungry (Going hungry)
I'm going hungry (Going hungry)

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 that I said to you)

And I'd 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 trees
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 that I said to you)

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

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

Part of me won’t go away
Everyday reminded how much I hate it
Weighted against the consequences
Can’t live without it, so it’s senseless
Want to cut it out of my soul
And just live with a gaping hole
Take control of my life and wash out all the burnt taste
I made the problems in the first place
Hang my head low ‘cause it’s part of me
You hardly see right next to the heart of me
Hurting me, the routine scar
New cuts cover where the old ones are
And now I’m sick of this
I can’t stand the sandpaper thoughts
That grate on my sanity I’d rather not even be
Than the man that’s staring in the mirror through me

Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me
Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me
Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me
Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me

I feel it everyday
I feel I’m in my way
I feel it swell up inside
Swell up inside
Swallowing me

(Freedom can be frightening if you’ve never felt it)
Once it’s been dealt with
You feel like you’ve been touched by something angelic
And then melted down into a pool of peace
Cease to be the animal you used to be
Remove the broken parts you know were wrong
And feel the calm when the problem’s all gone
And then you start to see
Another piece of yourself that you can’t let be
Memories of the last fight to free yourself
Take it to the depths at the bottom of the well
And now you know that you can choose to lose
The part in your heart where your inside’s bruised
You can live if you’re willing to put a stop
To just what’s killing you

Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me
Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me
Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me
Cut myself free
Willingly stop just what’s killing me

I feel it everyday
I feel I’m in my way
I feel it swell up inside
Swell up inside
Swallowing me

Alive in me inside of me
A part of me that screams thoughts away silently

Alive in me inside of me
A part of me that screams thoughts away silently
(This part of me won’t go away)
Alive in me inside of me
A part of me that screams thoughts away silently
(Part of me won’t go away)

Everywhere I look around
I see how everything bothered me
Every time I see myself
There’s always something wrong with me
Everywhere I look around
I see how everything bothered me
Every time I see myself
There’s always something wrong with me

I feel it everyday
I feel I’ve made my way
I feel it swell up inside
Swell up inside
Swallowing me

I feel it everyday
I feel I’m in my way
I feel it swell up inside
Swell up inside
Swallowing me
I feel it swell up inside
Swell up inside
Swallowing me
I feel it swell up inside
Swell up inside
Swallowing me