Released: July 30, 2002

Featuring: Kelli Ali

Songwriter: Mike Shinoda

Producer: Mickey Petralia

[Verse 1: Chester Bennington & Mike Shinoda]
This is my December
This is my time of the year
This is my December
This is all so clear

Just wish that I didn't feel
Like there was something I missed
Just wish that I didn't feel
Like there was something I missed

[Verse 2: Chester Bennington]
This is my December
This is my snow-covered home
This is my December
This is me, alone

[Pre-Chorus: Chester Bennington & Mike Shinoda]
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)

[Chorus: Chester Bennington & Kelli Ali]
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

[Verse 3: Chester Bennington]
This is my December
These are my snow-covered trees
This is me pretending
This is all I need

[Pre-Chorus: Chester Bennington & Mike Shinoda]
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)

[Chorus: Chester Bennington & Kelli Ali]
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

[Bridge: Chester Bennington]
This is my December
This is my time of the year
This is my December
This is all so clear

[Chorus: Chester Bennington & Kelli Ali]
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

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.