Friday, November 12, 2010

We, The Animals Take Control!

Well, this is just a tribute to my favorite band LINKIN PARK. My stories will be pretty general as I don't want to get too specific, some parts of the memories are just not worth public attention. And I'll let the lyrics run the story of my life.


I'll write this using time frames, of which when I was a still a kid up to today. And to all LP fans out there if you guys are feeling me, you rock!

1. Hybrid Theory


This album is pretty sweet and holds a certain childish quality to me, because it holds many of my childhood memories. This album was my walking stick towards teenage life. As a kid, I don't really care much about what is happening outside in the real world. All I care about is having fun, screaming and shouting and learning about changes happening to me as I take baby steps into teenage life.

As a kid, there are lots of things that were kept away from my knowledge. I am sure you too feel the same, And that is why my childhood theme song is RUNAWAY.

I wanted to run away as far as I can from everyone, because I feel that everyone is not being honest with me, and that I should have my freedom to carve my own life.


Graffiti decorations
Underneath a sky of dust
A constant wave of tension
On top of broken trust
The lessons that you taught me
I learned were never true
Now I find myself in question
[They point the finger at me again]
Guilty by association
[You point the finger at me again]
Paper bags and angry voices
Under a sky of dust
Another wave of tension
Has more than filled me up
All my talk of taking action
These words were never true
I wanna run away
Never say good-bye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind
Gonna run away 



2. Reanimation


Now this album is a lot more playful as it is a remix of Hybrid Theory. This album represents the new things I found in life after my elementary years. The experimentation of sound effects and music mixes in this album reflects directly to the experimentation I make when I first set foot in junior high. And one memorable song included in the album which I up till today cannot forget is MY DECEMBER.

My first time in a relationship and it ended horribly. I crawled into my blanket and cried like a loser and feed on the sadness of my failed experiment and the sadness of December.


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 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 dreams
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 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
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 



3. Meteora


 The third album, the most fucked up time of my life. Yup, the teenage life. Everything is wrong. Everything is fucked up. Everyone pisses me off right then.. Damn I miss those years. Meteora started to mash in a bit of heavy instruments, an a lot more screaming. Which is perfect, as the time of my teenage years demanded a lot of my patience and energy to cope with pretty much every single shit in the world that I am unhappy with.


Breakups, fights, stupid girls, and backstabbing friends. Yeah, everything mixed in nicely in a bowl of shit call high school. And yeah, not forgetting, self- righteous teachers who don't know shit they're talking about and preached about every piece of shit they can. And the only one I can turn to practically killed me inside out and left me to rot, so much for friendship, friend shit.

Enough said, all these nightmares eventually ate my trust on people and almost turned me into a psychopathic juvenile. Only FAINT can retell the story of my haunted past.


I am
Little bit of loneliness
A little bit of disregard
A handful of complaints
But I can't help the fact
That everyone can see these scars
I am
What I want you to want
What I want you to feel
But it's like
No matter what I do
I can't convince you
To just believe this is real
So I let go
Watching you
Turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here
'Cause you're all I got
I am
A little bit insecure
A little unconfident
'Cause you don't understand
I do what I can
But sometimes I don't make sense
I am
What you never want to say
But I've never had a doubt
It's like no matter what I do
I can't convince you
For once just to hear me out
So I let go
Watching you
Turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here
'Cause you're all I got
I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
No
Hear me out now
You're gonna listen to me
Like it or not
Right now 



4. Minutes To Midnight


As the album suggest, I've only got minutes before my midnight comes, so I've got to let go of all the hatred. This album helped me a lot to move on from all the sadness from high school. With the songs mainly themed on letting go and moving on, with a more delicate and controlled screaming, it definitely suits the situation on me facing a new world at that time.

As I sort out my priorities, NO MORE SORROWS perfectly pictures my journey. Goodbye to betrayals, I am making my own destiny and walking the world at my own pace.


Are you lost in your lies?
Do you tell yourself I don't realize
Your crusade's a disguise?
Replaced freedom with fear
You trade money for lives
I'm aware of what you've done
No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced
I see pain, I see need
I see liars and fiends
Abuse power with greed
I had hope, I believed
But I'm beginning to think that I've been decieved
You will pay for what you've done
No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced
Thieves and hypocrites!
Thieves and hypocrites!
Thieves and hypocrites!
No, no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced
No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced
Your time has come to be replaced
Your time has come to be erased 


5. A Thousand Suns


 And finally the most recent album, a very political and biblical breakthrough for LP. With all the conflicts all around the world, with war breaking at every continents, LP brings hope and ambitions through this album and delivered it successfully.



Politics, religions, it does not matter which side you are on, all we need is love and tolerance. Enjoy WRETCHES AND KINGS. We, the animals take control! We, the generation that will change this world!


"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" -Mario Savio

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 getting 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 letting you know
There ain't shit we don't run when the guns unload
And no one make a move unless my people say so
Got everything outta 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 running 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 letting 'em know
There ain't shit you can say to make me back down no
So / push the button let the whole thing blow
Spinning everything outta 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 the back and the side to side
If you fear what I feel put 'em up real high



Well, that's about it. LP for life, you feel me?