Get Me Gone

The dude, he said that, like

When we were making the first Linkin Park record

He was like:

"Yeah you know, I don't know about the rapping like, I don't know... If it's like.

Maybe you should just be a rock band."

You know what I mean, like, trying to change us

Like they signed us as an act like what we sound like

And then he's like:

"Oh I don't know maybe you should just play keyboard"

Before the first song that you heard me on

There were people already tryin' to get me gone

Tellin' me to quit rapping, "Just play the keys"

That my band had a singer, they didn't need me

But my band had my back so we did the tracks

Put out the album and the talk went flat

It was funny at first but then the humor faded

When some magazines printed that our label made us

We were to be good to be true

Some were saying ghost writers were writing all that we do

So we had to disprove it:

We spelled it out to the detail how we do it when we're making this music

After that I made it a rule:

I only do E-mail responses to print interviews

Because these people love to put a twist to your words

To infer that you said something fucking absurd

Oh, did I lose you at "infer"?

Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words?

People used to "infer" that we were manufactured

Now I've got the interviews on file

Which people said what, which number to dial

So now every enemy screaming insanity

All they're ever gonna be's another big fan of me

Bitch

Can you believe that?

Like it's crazy, it sounds crazy right?

Like at this point, at this point you're thinking, you hear it out and you're like

"That guy was out of his mind"

But honestly that's what he wrote

Besides the fact that he wanted me to just play keyboard or whatever

He didn't want me to rap

He was like "Maybe Joe Hahn should, um

Wear a lab coat and a cowboy hat" on, like when we play

I swear to God he was crazy

And later on he claimed he wrote all our songs so that was really bad."