Monday, May 16, 2011

Linkin Park - Waiting For The End

#1 Son informs me that I need to be branching out in the music I post here, to include "modern" stuff (as he calls it).  He offers this as the introductory "Modern Monday" post, from Linkin Park.

Linkin Park won't need much introduction to most readers, after selling 50 million albums and winning a couple Grammys.  This song is somewhat of a departure for them - as is much of their latest album,  A Thousand Suns.  Musically, it's very interesting with layers of musical activity playing with and opposite each other.  Not your average musical bear, from not your average Pop/Rock band.



Waiting For The End (Songwriters: Linkin Park)
This is not the end
This is not the beginning,
Just a voice like a riot
Rocking every revision
But you listen to the tone
And the violent rhythm
Though the words sound steady
Something empty's within 'em

We say Yeah!
With fists flying up in the air
Like we're holding onto something
That's invisible there,
'Cause we're living at the mercy of
The pain and the fear
Until we dead it, Forget it,
Let it all disappear.

Waiting for the end to come
Wishing I had strength to stand
This is not what I had planned
It's out of my control....

Flying at the speed of light
Thoughts were spinning in my head
So many things were left unsaid
It's hard to let you go...

(Oh!) I know what it takes to move on,
I know how it feels to lie,
All I wanna do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got

Sitting in an empty room
Trying to forget the past
This was never meant to last,
I wish it wasn't so...

(Oh!) I know what it takes to move on,

I know how it feels to lie,
All I wanna do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got

What was left when that fire was gone?
I thought it felt right but that right was wrong
All caught up in the eye of the storm
And trying to figure out what it's like moving on
And i don't even know what kind of things I've said
My mouth kept moving and my mind went dead
So, picking up the pieces, now where to begin?
The hardest part of ending Is starting again!!

All I wanna do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what i haven't got...

This is not the end
This is not the beginning,
Just a voice like a riot
Rocking every revision
But you listen to the tone
And the violet rhythm
Though the words sound steady
Something empty's within 'em
(Holding on to what i haven't got)

We say Yeah!
With fists flying up in the air
Like we're holding onto something
That's invisible there,
'Cause we're living at the mercy of
The pain and the fear
Until we dead it, Forget it,
Let it all disappear
(Holding on to what i haven't got!)

8 comments:

doubletrouble said...

Yeeeah...no.
Sorry, #1.

soulful sepulcher said...

I respond with THIS after my #2 daughter introduced me to the group, mosh pits and more back in 'the day'. Crank it up! i still love it.

#1 Son said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxaaGgTQYM

You might like this one better. It's really deep.

- #1

kx59 said...

Well, Linkin Park has exhibited some staying power, similar to the Foo Fighters. Not my cup of tea on either count. Band years are like dog years, Linkin Park formed in 1996, that makes them like 105 years old.

Anonymous said...

Oh hey, did you say something about branching out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_TKcW0GA8

Iron Maiden — "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." 13 minutes and 34 seconds of 1980s heavy metal perfection. (And yes, it was based on the Coleridge poem.)

raptros-v76 said...

Linkin Park? Meh. Check out Scar Symmetry. From their latest album,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArELZEYr444

NotClauswitz said...

Huh? Being a non-parent I don't have the Kidspace that drives me to it like you do.
Just Satuerday, sitting in the "Cabo-Wabo-Something" - the Sammy Hagar bar at the Kahului, Maui airport enjoying a stiff Tropical Itch, I noticed I was eyelessly watching a silent slide-show of his legendary Sammy-ness on a 72-inch screen. It was like a kaleidoscope, visual excitement without being brain-engaging. I noticed then that I was barely acquainted with his work (he was the other big-hair blond-guy in Van Halen, right?) and recognized ZERO of the other obviously famous faces his mug was up next-to, plastered on-screen... Sheesh. Did I miss something? Obviously. And not hiving kids either.
My musical-world interaction stopped or tapered-off severely sometime in the early 80's - or branched so differentially and I simply stepped-off the pop-culture wheel somewhere after DeVo and New Wave - that whoever is common and known today is really a mystery to me. I seem to have achieved the fateful Nirvana of musical curmudgeon-hood. Is it because I entirely missed MTV? Cable TV?
I've *heard* of Linkin Park from the Noise-Machines, radio and TV or such, but never-ever listened to them. I've also heard (but even watched some episodes) of South Park.
I think/I guess if they came on the radio I might change the channel as quickly as I changed anything on AM Radio that was mass-produced Bubblegum during the late 60's/early 70's. The music seems to strain towards Emo and wants to give me a slight headache, and I would be hard-pressed to recognize that there are lyrics involved.
*sigh* I am doomed. It's not that I appreciate something like Dixiland Jazz more - or even at all - nooo! Gaah! Can't stand it... Slack-key is ok, but in small doses. Music with a capital-M just doesn't do much to steer me around anymore and my mosh-pit days are a dim memory, not well lit or too much enjoyed.
Since this is a long and worthless comment I will reproduce it on my own blog, thanks for the inspiration!

soulful sepulcher said...

love Evanescence!!