nan | 楠木

    One thing that I’m sincerly fearing right now, is that I’m becoming a Linkin Park addict.

    Can’t remember the first song I heard. Probably "Papercut" or "Points of Authority". Probably I didn’t like it then, or maybe I found it hard to accept yet interesting. Anywise the first album, "Hybrid Theory" would have been too heavy for me to accept it then.

    "Reanimation" I also did not find attractive, but definitely cool. The MVs were very cool indeed, and the electronicfied music just perfectly fit in to the visual effects. Very, very "in". Still I had not heard anything that I could say as music that I liked.

   Then "Metoera" came out, and I saw the "Numb" MV on the Billboard Countdown. A instant hit for me. The lyrics were old but the song was perfect. This was, and still is the definitive Linkin Park song for me, the song that made me a fan. Then I decided to check out all of their songs, and somehow I just liked them, all of them.

    "Live in Texas" is a very cool dvd. Finally I knew what Linkin Park is all about. Chester’s enigmatic voice seems to be all-invincible and never-tiring. My anger is his anger, and his voice lets out his anger, and in turn, I feel that I’m relieved of my pain and anger. The dvd is also special in that it made nearly all of my roommates LP fans. Chester’s vocal just blew them away.

    A few weeks back there was a Karaoke Contest, and I very much wanted to sing "In the End" with my roomies. I could say that I mastered Mike’s rap, but no one could do Chester’s vocal, or at least do it in a way that could make us all satisfied. Shame, yet during this time I must have listened to "In the End" a million times, memorizing the rap lyrics, and the song seems to have grown in me. What a special song―― and perhaps it is only fitting to end this one with the lyrics:

"In the End"  by Linkin Park

It starts with one…
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 ’till the end of the day,
The clock ticks life away,
It’s so unreal,
You didn’t look out below,
Watch the time go right out the window,
Trying to hold on,
Didn’t even know, I wasted it all,
Just to watch you go,
I kept everything inside,
And even know I tried,
It all fell apart,
What it meant to be,
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…