Songwriter: Mark Wakefield Mike Shinoda
Producer: Mike Shinoda
[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
The microphone molester, machete undresser
"Stupid-dope-fresh" type shit resurrector
Top gun, miramar, best-of-the-best-er
The leave-an-MC-peace-in-rest-er
The skill tester, the flex-the-gunner
The make-funner, the adversary make runner
Make summer cold with rhymes I spit
Kick gift to lifted delinquent wit
I be prophet, my hand—top it? Stop it
Fly like rocket when I rock it
Lock it down with this perverse verse
Every fuckin' curse, a burst of hurt
Move crowds: physical fitness rhymes
Coke heads couldn't do my lines
I'm decorated like Christmas pines
My battalion rocks
MC's become silhouettes of chalk
[Chorus: Mark Wakefield]
Reading my eyes will say it in many ways
Losing my pride will save it in many days
[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda]
Hit the dirt 'cause the words I spit
Will do more than just rip your shirt
I'll bitch slap your soul, contact the track control
You're comin' at me? You can't hack it, though
So ridiculous, watchin' my crew get sick of this
Wickedness, pitchin' this
Lyrical viciousness to crews and cliques
Made of men and mistresses
This is my life, the twilight in the fight night
And trying to see nothin' but the highlights
When I write these eyes on horizons
Die for my song, cry rhymes in krylon
Fire on, move men telekinetically
Esoterically beat-speaking with clarity
Feel my verity, heroism of heresy
And sever every MC I see with severity
[Chorus: Mark Wakefield]
Reading my eyes will say it in many ways
Losing my pride will save it in many days
[Interlude: Mark Wakefield]
Why not? What I came
Why not? What I came
Why not? What I came
[Bridge: Mark Wakefield]
Why not give me what I came to deserve?
Why not give me what I came to believe?
Why not give me what I came to deserve?
Why not give me what I came to believe?
Why?
[Chorus: Mark Wakefield]
Reading my eyes will say it in many ways
Losing my pride will save it in many days
The microphone molester, machete undresser
"Stupid-dope-fresh" type shit resurrector
Top gun, miramar, best-of-the-best-er
The leave-an-MC-peace-in-rest-er
The skill tester, the flex-the-gunner
The make-funner, the adversary make runner
Make summer cold with rhymes I spit
Kick gift to lifted delinquent wit
I be prophet, my hand—top it? Stop it
Fly like rocket when I rock it
Lock it down with this perverse verse
Every fuckin' curse, a burst of hurt
Move crowds: physical fitness rhymes
Coke heads couldn't do my lines
I'm decorated like Christmas pines
My battalion rocks
MC's become silhouettes of chalk
[Chorus: Mark Wakefield]
Reading my eyes will say it in many ways
Losing my pride will save it in many days
[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda]
Hit the dirt 'cause the words I spit
Will do more than just rip your shirt
I'll bitch slap your soul, contact the track control
You're comin' at me? You can't hack it, though
So ridiculous, watchin' my crew get sick of this
Wickedness, pitchin' this
Lyrical viciousness to crews and cliques
Made of men and mistresses
This is my life, the twilight in the fight night
And trying to see nothin' but the highlights
When I write these eyes on horizons
Die for my song, cry rhymes in krylon
Fire on, move men telekinetically
Esoterically beat-speaking with clarity
Feel my verity, heroism of heresy
And sever every MC I see with severity
[Chorus: Mark Wakefield]
Reading my eyes will say it in many ways
Losing my pride will save it in many days
[Interlude: Mark Wakefield]
Why not? What I came
Why not? What I came
Why not? What I came
[Bridge: Mark Wakefield]
Why not give me what I came to deserve?
Why not give me what I came to believe?
Why not give me what I came to deserve?
Why not give me what I came to believe?
Why?
[Chorus: Mark Wakefield]
Reading my eyes will say it in many ways
Losing my pride will save it in many days
Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Step Up (1999 Demo)
- Points of Authority (Demo Version)
- With You (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
- Pictureboard
- Points of Authority (Demo)
- High Voltage
- Oh No (”Points of Authority” Demo)
- Coal (Unreleased Demo 1997)
- Opening
- Pts.Of.Athrty (Crystal Method Remix)
- Kyur4 th Ich
- Blue (1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo)
- MyᐸDsmbr
- Ntr\mssion
- [Riff Raff]
- Reading My Eyes (Xero Demo)
- High Voltage (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
- Slip (1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo)
- Sad (”By Myself” Demo 1999)
- Stick and Move (”Runaway” Demo 1998)
- SuperXero (”By Myself” Demo)
- Buy Myself (Marilyn Manson Remix)
- Papercut (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
- Points of Authority (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
- A Place for My Head (Live at Docklands Arena, London)
- Points of Authority (Live BBC Radio One)
- In the End (Live BBC Radio One)
- Papercut (Live from the BBC)
- One Step Closer (Rock Mix)
- Chair (1999 “Part of Me” Demo)
- Hurry (1999 Demo)
- Grr (1999 Demo)
- Esaul (Xero Demo)
- Carousel (Demo)
- Stick N Move
- Could Have Been
- Dialate (Xero Demo)
- Forgotten (Demo)
- And One
- [Stef]
- Esaul (”A Place for My Head” Demo)
- Forgotten
- A Place for My Head
- By Myself
- Crawling
- Points of Authority
- One Step Closer
- With You
- Papercut
- Runaway
- Dedicated (1999 Demo)
- In the End
- X-Ecutioner Style
- Step Up
- Ppr:kut
- H! Vltg3
- High Voltage (B-Side Rarities)
- Enth E Nd
- Cure for the Itch
- Pushing Me Away
- Part of Me
- By_Myslf
- Technique (Short)
- Carousel
- Krwlng
- Rnw@y
- WthᐳYou
- Plc.4 Mie Hæd
- P5hng Me A*wy
- [Chali]
- Pts.Of.Athrty
- Rhinestone (Xero Demo)
- Crawling (Demo)
- My December
- 1Stp Klosr
- So Far Away (Unreleased 1998)
- She Couldn’t
- In the End (Demo)
- Frgt/10
- Xero (1997)
- Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition) (2020)
- In the End
- Heavy
- One More Light
- Numb
- Battle Symphony
- Crawling
- Good Goodbye
- Breaking the Habit
- Talking to Myself
- Nobody Can Save Me
- What I’ve Done
- CASTLE OF GLASS
- Somewhere I Belong
- Faint
- Leave Out All the Rest
- Papercut
- Bleed It Out
- Waiting for the End
- BURN IT DOWN
- LOST IN THE ECHO
- One Step Closer
- A Place for My Head
- Invisible
- Sharp Edges