Честер Беннинтон [Chester Bennington] - вокал
Майк Шинода [Mike Shinoda] - вокал
Роб Бурдон [Rob Bourdon] - ударные
Брэд Дельсон [Brad Delson] - гитара
Дэйв Фэйрэлл [Dave Farrell (Phoenix)] - басс
Джозеф Хан [Joseph Hahn] - ДиДжей/сэмплирование

Линкин Парк - это совершенно новый стиль исполнения, и, на взгляд простого слушателя, очень качественно исполняемый. Большинство людей узнали о Линкин Парк после композиции "Ближе На Один Шаг" [One Step Closer]. Смесь хип-хопа, рока и электронных сэмплов преподносит Линкин Парк в новом цвете, особо выделяясь из серой толпы новых рок-групп - их стиль уникален. Это одно из их лучших качеств. Это такой тип музыки, слушая которую, большинство людей наслаждаются - ей невозможно сопротивляться - твое тело будет прыгать под ритмичный бит. Удивительно, но Линкин Парк сделали этот шаг к верхушкам мировых чартов при помощи очень сильных текстов без какой-либо профанации. А так как сейчас очень напряженное время в музыкальной индустрии, то очень сложно - найти такую группу, которая бы вскоре стала удачной. Линкин Парк в этом смысле - просто раритет.
Старое название группы - Xer0 (затем было сменено на Hybrid Theory), сейчас мы называем их Linkin Park, смена названия группы связана с тем, чтобы избежать различных сопаставлений с другими группами с такими же названиями. Мы говорим Linkin Park вместо настоящего названия - Lincoln Park только лишь для того, чтобы группа купила свое доменное имя - http://www.linkinpark.com/. Сначала группа состояла из четырех человек - это Майк, Роб, Брэд и Джозеф. Они искали второго вокалиста и послали Честеру кассету, чтобы он записал свои произведения на нее. Ему представилась удачная возможность показать им, на что он способен, и он записал касету в день своего рождения и сразу им позвонил. Группа, столпясь у телефона, слушала запись Честера, которая их очень впечатлила - на следующий день они ему позвонили... И, бум, вот он - Linkin Park!

Тексты песен!

RUNAWAY:

Graffiti decorations
Underneath a sky of dust
A constant wave of tension
On top of broken trust
The lessons that you taught me
I learn 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
Now I find myself in question
They point the finger at me again
Guilty by association
You point the finger at me again

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
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...

IN THE END:

It starts with one thing
I don"t know why
It doesn"t even matter how hard you try
keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It"s so unreal
Didn"t look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn"t even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn"t even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn"t even matter

One thing, I don"t know why
It doesn"t even matter how hard you try
keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme, to explain in due time
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I"m surprised it got so (far)
Things aren"t the way they were before
You wouldn"t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me (in the end)
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I

Chorus

I"ve put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There"s only one thing you should know (2x) Chorus

FORGOTTEN:

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core I"ve forgotten
In the middle of my thoughts
Taken far from my safety
The picture is there
The memory won"t escape me
But why should I care (2x)

There"s a place so dark you can"t see the end
(Skies cock back) and shock that which can"t defend
The rain then sends dripping acidic questions
Forcefully, the power of suggestion
Then with the eyes tightly shut looking thought the rust and rotten dust
A spot of light floods the floor
And pours over the rusted world of pretend
The eyes ease open and its dark again

Chorus

Bridge:
In the memory you"ll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up

Moving all around
Screaming of the ups and downs
Pollution manifested in perpetual sound
The wheels go round and the sunset creeps past the
Street lamps, chain-link, and concrete
A little piece of paper with a picture drawn
Floats on down the street till the wind is gone
The memory now is like the picture was then
When the paper"s crumpled up it can"t be perfect again

Chorus
Bridge

Now you got me caught in the act
You bring the thought back
I"m telling you that
I see it right through you (7x)

Bridge (2x)

A Cure For The Itch

(Unnamed announcer): Folks, we have a very special guest for you tonight.
I"d like to introduce...
Mr. Hahn!
Let"s hear it for the great Mr. Hahn!
And now a lesson in rhythm management.
Let"s begin...
Alright now, wasn"t that fun?
Let"s try something else.

H! Vltg3

Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes....

Hybrid
I"ve been diggin in crates ever since I was livin in space
Before the rat race, before monkeys had you in traits
I mastered numerology, big band theology, performed lobotomies with telekanetic psychology
Invented the mic to so I can start blessin it
Chin-checkin" kids to make my point like an impressionist
Many men have tried to shake us
But I twist my chords like double helixes to show them what I"m made of
I buckle knees like leg braces, cast a spell of instrumentalist on all of you MC"s who hate us
So you can try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on
From now to infinite, let icon be bygones
I fire bombs, ghostly notes haunt this
I tried threats, but moved on to a promise
I stomp shit with or without an accomplice
And run the guantlett with whoever that wants this

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

I"ve put a kink in the backbones, of clones, with microphones
Never satisfied my rhymes jones
Spraying bright day over what you might say
My blood types krylon, Technicolor type A
On highways write with road rage
Cages a win, cages a tin, that bounce all around
Surround sound
Devouring the scenes
Subliminal gangrene paintings, over all the same things
Sing songs karaoke copy bullshit
Break bones verbally with sticks and stones tactics
Forth dimension, compact convention
Write rhymes with ease while the track stands at attention
Men to put you away, with the pencil
Pistol, official, sixteen line, a rhyme missile
While you risk your all
I pick out at your flaws
Singing rah blah, blah, blah you can say you saw

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide

Who"s the man, the man in your hand over your land
Roving over man"s bolding when he"s jammin your plans ova
I am vics clorousos, the most ferocious
When I spy my third eye, it"s extremely high voltage
That"s why I need ruby corks glasses, cause when I glance at the chest
Then I might blast the masses
Subliminals translated through piano
Integrated in flow, calculated to nano
My IU skills are when I mean plea sees the rhyme I hear as I proceed through time
I walk through the walls and the inanimate obstacles
While educed to the reduction of cells and molecules
I bring the knowledge the you swallow like the state of hologram
I bot your head, fat your lip like collagen
A telepath of the another verse with no postage
Mike Shinoda, we are high voltage

High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide
High voltage
This is the unforgettable sound
High voltage
Bringin you up and takin" you down
High voltage
Comin at you from every side
High voltage
Making the rythm and rhyme collide
Linkin Park (being scratched over, and over again)

Frgt/10

we"re stuck in a place so dark, you could hardly see
a manner of matter that splits with the words i breathe
and as the rain drips acidic questions around me
i block out the sight of the powers that be
duck away into the darkness, times up
i wind up in a rusted world with eyes shut
so tight that it blurs into the world of pretend
and the eyes ease open and it"s dark again

from the top to the bottom
bottom to top i stop
at the core, i"m forgotten
in the middle of my thoughts
taken far from my safety
the picture"s there
the memory won"t escape me
by why should i care

in the memory you"ll find me
eyes burning up
the darkness holding me tightly
until the sun rises up...

listen to the sound, dizzy from the ups and downs
and nauseated by the polluted rock that"s all around
watchin the wheels of cars that pass i look past
to the last of the light and the long shadows it casts
a window grows and captures the eye
and cries out yellow light as it passes me by
and a young shadowy figure sits in front of a box
inside a building of rocks with antennas on top
now, nothing can stop in this land of the pain
the same lose, not knowing they were part of the game
and while the insides change, the box stays the same
and the figure inside could bear anybody"s name
the memories i keep are from a time like then
i put on my paper so i could come back to them
someday i"m hopin to close my eyes and pretend
that this crumpled up paper can be perfect again

from the top to the bottom
bottom to top i stop
at the core, i"m forgotten
in the middle of my thoughts
taken far from my safety
the picture"s there
the memory won"t escape me

i"m here at the podium talking, the ceremonial offerings
dedicated to urban dysfunctional offspring
what"s happened? city governments are eternally napping
trapped in greedy covenants, causin urban collapsing
bullets that scar souls, with dark holds, get more than your car stole
some hearts be blacker than charcoal
for real, this society"s deprivation depends
not on our differences, but the separation within
no preparation is made, limited age, minimum wage
livin in a tenement cage for innocent pay
tragedy within a parade,
the darkness overspread like permanent plauge,
i"m forgotten

in the memory you"ll find me
eyes burning up
the darkness holding me tightly
until the sun rises up...

1Stp Klosr

I"m about to break...
I cannot take this anymore.
Saying everything I said before.
All the words the make no sense,
I find bliss in ignorance,
The less I hear the less you say,
You"ll find that out anyway.

I find the answers aren"t so clear.
I wish I could find a way to disappear...
All these thoughts they make no sense,
I find bliss in ignorance,
Nothing seems to go away,
Over and over again...(Over and over again...over and over again...over and over againo...over and over again...)
Just Like Before...
Everything you say to me...and I"m about to break!
I need a little room to breathe...and I"m about to break!
Everything you say to me...and I"m about to break!
I need a little room to breathe...And I"m about to BREAK!
These are the places where I can feel
Torn from my body, my flesh it peels...
During this rightly concurring balmy night...
Waiting alone, I cannot resist.
Filling this hate I have never missed.
Raise up my memory, a reason to rip off my face.
Blood is a"pouring...and pouring...and pouring...and pouring...and pouring...and pouring...and pouring...and pouring...and pouring...and pouring...
SHUT UP WHEN I"M TALKING TO YOU!
SHUT UP!
(And it"s pouring!)
SHUT UP!
(And it"s pouring!)
SHUT UP!
(And it"s pouring!)
SHUT UP WHEN I"M TALKING TO YOU
SHUT UP!
(And it"s pouring!)
SHUT UP!
(And it"s pouring!)
SHUT UP!
(And it"s pouring!)
SHUT UP...I"m about to break!
Everything you say to me...and I"m about to break!
I need a little room to breathe...and I"m about to break!
Everything you say to me...and I"m about to break!
I need a little room to breathe...And I"m about to...
Everything you say to me...Takes me one step closer to the Edge...I"m about to break!
I need a little room to breathe...Cause I"m one step closer to the Edge...and I"m about to break!
Everything you say to me...Takes me one step closer to the Edge...I"m about to break!
I need a little room to breathe...Cause I"m one step closer to the Edge...and I"m about to...

Plc.4 Mie Haed

[Chester]
I wanna be in another place,
I hate when you say you dont understand,
I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy,
a place for my head.

[Mike]
I watch how the moon sits in the sky on a dark night,
shining with the light from the sun,
the sun doesnt give light to the moon,
assuming the moons gonna owe it one,
and makes think of how you act to me,
you do favors that rapidly,
you just turn around and start asking me about things
you want back from me, Im sick of the tension,
sick of the hunger, sick of you acting like I owe you this,
find another place to feed your greed,
while I find a place to rest, Im sick of the tension,
sick of the hunger, sick of you acting like I oweyou this,
find another place to feed your greed,
while I find a place to rest.

[Chester]
I wanna be in another place,
I hate when you say you dont understand,
I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy,
a place for my head. I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna

[Zion]
Two, Two, Three, Three, Ya, Ya, Ya, Gimme?

[Chester]
I wanna be in another place,
I hate when you say you dont understand,
I wanna be in the energy, right with the enemy,
a place for my head.
You try to get the best of me, go away, go away, go away,
you try to take the best of me,
go away, you try to take the best of me, go away,
you try to take the best of me, go away,
you try to take the best of me, go away,
you try to take the best of me, go away,
you try to take the best of me, go away,
you try to take the best of me, go away,
you try to take the best of me, go away,
you try to take the best of me.

Come on!

I woke up in a dream today
To the cold of the static
And put my cold feet on the floor
Forgot all about yesterday
Remembering I"m pretending to be where I"m not anymore
A little taste of hypocrisy
And I"m left in the wake of the mistake
Slow to react
Even though you"re so close to me
You"re still so distant, and I can"t bring you back

It"s true, the way I feel
Was promised by your face
The sound of your voice
Painted on my memories
Even if you"re not with me
I"m with you
(You, now I see, keeping everything inside)
With you
(You, now I see, even when I close my eyes)
With you
(You, now I see, keeping everything inside)
With you
(You, now I see, even when I close my eyes)
With you
Ughhhh!

I hit you and you hit me back
And we fall to the floor
The rest of the day stands still
Fine line between this and that
But when things go wrong, I pretend the past isn"t real
Now I"m trapped in this memory
And I"m left in the wake of the mistake
Slow to react
Even though you"re close to me
You"re still so distant, and I can"t bring you back

It"s true, the way I feel
Was promised by your face
The sound of your voice
Painted on my memories
Even if you"re not with me
I"m with you
(You, now I see, keeping everything inside)
With you
(You, now I see, even when I close my eyes)
With you
(You, now I see, keeping everything inside)
With you
(You, now I see, even when I close my eyes)
Ughhhh!

(No)
I wont let you control my fate while i"m holding the weight of the world on my concience
(No)
I wont just sit here and wait while you weighin your options
Your makin a fool of me
(No)
You didnt dare to try and say you dont care
And salamly swear not to follow me there
(No)
It aint like me to beg on my knees
Or, please oh baby please
Thats not how i"m doin things
(No)
No i"m not upset, no i"m not angry
I know love is love and love sometimes, it doesnt pay me
(No)
I"m never without you, i"ll always be with you
You"ll never forget me, i"m keeping you with me
(No)
I wont let you take me to the end of my row
Or keep burning and torching my soul
(No)
No i"m not your puppet
And no, no, no, I wont let you go

No, no matter how far we"ve come
I can"t wait to see tomorrow
No matter how far we"ve come
I, I can"t wait to see tomorrow

With you
(You, now I see, keeping everything inside)
With you
(You, now I see, even when I close my eyes)
With you
(You, now I see, keeping everything inside)
With you
(You, now I see, even when I close my eyes)
Ughhhhh!