Released: December 7, 2012

Songwriter: Brad Delson Mr. Hahn Dave Farrell Rob Bourdon Chester Bennington Mike Shinoda

Producer: Rick Rubin Mike Shinoda

[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda & Chester Bennington]
Take me down to the river bend
Take me down to the fighting end
Wash the poison from off my skin
Show me how to be whole again
Fly me up on a silver wing
Past the black where the sirens sing
Warm me up in a nova's glow
And drop me down to the dream below

[Chorus: Mike Shinoda & Chester Bennington]
'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
For you to see

[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda & Chester Bennington]
Bring me home in a blinding dream
Through the secrets that I have seen
Wash the sorrow from off my skin
And show me how to be whole again

[Chorus: Mike Shinoda & Chester Bennington]
'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there, for you to see
For you to see

[Bridge: Chester Bennington]
'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything else I need to be

[Chorus: Mike Shinoda & Chester Bennington]
'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
For you to see, for you to see

Linkin Park

Hybrid Theory isn’t just the title of Linkin Park’s chart-topping debut album, but a career mission statement.

From day one, the same six players (lead vocalist Chester Bennington, drummer/percussionist Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave ‘Phoenix’ Farrell, DJ/Programmer Joe Hahn, and keyboardist, guitarist, and co-lead vocals Mike Shinoda) built the band by fusing all their favorite styles of music into one unmistakable signature sound. With each album, Linkin Park defiantly challenges themselves and their fans by blasting into new musical territory. After setting the template for rock that incorporated hip-hop influences with Hybrid Theory and Meteora, they shifted gears completely and defied expectations with the polychromatic Minutes to Midnight, and again with the esoteric A Thousand Suns, before melding a piece of them all into 2012’s LIVING THINGS. With their 2014 release and heaviest offering in years, The Hunting Party, Linkin Park manage to capture their ever-innovative spirit with a hunger seldom seen in bands on their seventh album. One More Light (2017) is an interesting personal album, filled with a lot of emotion.

Unfortunately, on July 20, 2017, Chester unexpectedly died by suicide, shocking and saddening both fans and his own band members alike.