Hybrid Theory EP Lyrics

1. And One

Where should I start

Disjointed heart

I’ve got no commitment

To my own flesh and blood

Left all alone

Far from my home

No one to hear me, to heal my ill heart, I

Keep it locked up inside

Cannot express

To the point I’ve regressed

If anger’s a gift, then I guess I’ve been blessed, I

Keep it locked up inside

Keep my distance from your lies

It's too late to love me ma

You helped me to show me

It's to late to love me ma

You don't even know me

(chorus)

Breaking a part of my heart to find release

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Breaking a part of my heart to find release

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Break)

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace (Me)

Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Too)

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

(chorus ends)

Keep it locked up inside

Keep my distance from your lies

(chorus repeats)

Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Break)

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace (Me)

Breaking a part of my heart to find release (Too)

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Breaking a part of my heart to find release

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Breaking a part of my heart to find release

Taking you out of my blood to bring me peace

Keep my distance

(repeat 3x)

[slows to rap solo]

Spit drips from the jaw of the witless witness

Cryptic colloquialism shifts your midrift

Dark all I do embark the shadows

Involved with my thought catalog, analogue, rap catalog

Keep my distance, and fear resistance, hurt by

persistence

The twisted web of tangled lies

Strangles my hope to waste and numbs the taste

And I'm forced to face these hate crimes

Against the state of being

Feeling the weight-less-ness pressed between the

ceiling

Reeling around room

Riding a bubble of sound proof

It's the frequency making you

Sha-Shake with every boom

Involuntary muscle contraction

Ignoring and drinking musical gas field euphoria

The sound pounds to make the dead flush

To have you a head rush with red thoughts and said

stuff

2. Step Up

Yeah

Watch as the room rocks

Mentally moonwalk

Mixed media slang

Banging in your boom box verbal violence

Lyrical stylist

In a time when rock hip hop rhymes are childish

You can’t tempt me with rhymes that are empty

Rapping to a beat doesn’t make you an emcee

With your lack of skill and facility

You’re killing me

And a DJ in the group just for credibility

I heard that some of you are getting help with your

rhymes

You’re not an emcee if someone else writes your lines

And rapping over rock doesn’t make you a pioneer

Cause rock and hip hop have collaborated for years

But now they’re getting randomly mixed and matched up

All after a fast buck and all the tracks suck

So how does it stack up? None of it’s real

You want to be an emcee you’ve got to study the skill

(chorus)

Who can rock a rhyme like this?

Bring it to you every time like this?

Who can rock a rhyme like this?

Step, step up, step, step up

(chorus ends)

So you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity

But mentally you don’t have the hip hop energy

With a tendency to make up stories

Sounding like the only hip hop you’ve heard is top 40

And your record company is completely missing it

All the kids are dissing it for not being legitimate

So in a battle you can't hack it

React with whack ***

And get smacked with verbal back flips

Get your *** kicked by fabulous battle catalysts

It's taken decades for emcees to establish this

You’re new to hip hop and welcome if your serious

But not on the mic

Leave that to the experienced

(Using the waves of sound the true master paralyzes

his opponents, leaving him

vulnerable to attack)

(chorus repeats 2x)

(After years of pain staking research by the world's

leading sound scientists, we here at the sound

institute have invented a reliable audio weapons

system. Actual movement of musical sound in space used

to carefully attack and neutralize the cellular

structure of the human body, and the question must be

asked.)

(chorus repeats 2x)

3. Part of Me

Part of me won’t go away

Everyday reminded how much I hate it

Weighted against the consequences

Can’t live without it so it’s senseless

Wanna cut it out of my soul

And just live with a gaping hole

Take control of my life

And wash out all the burnt taste

I made the problems in the first place

Hang my head low ‘cause it’s part of me

Ya hardly see right next to the heart of me

Heard of me the routine scar

New cuts cover where the old ones are

And now I’m sick of this

I can’t stand the sandpaper thoughts that grade away

on my sanity

I rather not even be then the man that’s staring in

the mirror through me

(chorus)

Cut myself free willingly

Stop just what’s killing me

(repeat 3x)

I feel it everyday

I feel I made my way

I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside

Swallowing me

(chorus ends)

It can’t be frightening if you’ve never felt it

Once it’s been dealt with you feel like you’ve been

touched by something angelic

And then melted down into a pool of peace

Cease to be the animal you used to be

Remove the broken parts you know were wrong

And feel the karma when the problem’s all gone

And then you start to see another piece of yourself

that you can’t let be

And that reason’ll last fight to free yourself

Take it to the depths of the bottom of the well

And now you know you can choose to lose the part in

your heart

Where your insides bruise

You can live if you’re willing to

Put a stop to just what’s killing you

(chorus repeats)

(Alive in me, inside of me, a part of me screams away

silently

This part of me won’t go away, part of me won’t go away

Everywhere I look around I see how everyone ought to be

Every time I see myself there’s always something wrong

with me

Everywhere I look around I see how everyone ought to be

Every time I see myself there’s always something wrong

with me)

I feel it everyday

I feel I made my way

I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside

Swallowing me

(repeat)

I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside, swallowing

me

I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside, swallowing

me

4. High Voltage

Just do something to tell you who I am, ya know?

(chorus)

It's high voltage you cant shake the shock

Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out

It's high voltage you cant shake the shock

Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out

It's high voltage you cant shake the shock

Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out

It's high voltage you cant shake the shock

Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out

(chorus ends)

I've been taking into crates ever since I was livin in

space

Before the ratrace, before monkeys had human traits

Mastered numerology and bigbang theology

Performed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology

Invented the mic so I could start blessin it

And chincheckin kids to make my point like an

impressionist

Many men have tried to shake us

But I twist mic cords to double helixes and show them

what I'm made of

I buckle knees like leg braces

Cast the spell of instrumental-ness and all of the

emcees that hate us

So try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on

From now to infinity let icons be bygones

I fire bomb ghostly notes haunt this

I've tried threats but moved on to a promise

I stomp **** with or without an accomplis

(Mixed media)

The stamp of approval is on this

(chorus repeats)

Akira, put a kink in the backbones of clones with

microphones

Never satisfy my rhyme jones

Sprayin bright day over what you might say

Blood type krylon

Technicolor type A

On highways ripe with road rage I'm patient to win

The cage and the tin to bounce all around

In surround sound devouring the scene

Subliminal gangrene paintings

Overall the same things sing songs karaoke copy

madness

Break bones verbally with sticks and stone tactics

Fourth dimension, combat convention

Write rhymes at ease while the tracks stand at

attention (Attention)

Meant to put you away with the pencil

Pistol, official, 16 line rhyme missile

While you risk it all, I pick out of your flaws

Spin, blah blah blah blah

You can say you saw

(chorus repeats 2x)

5. Carousel

She can't hide no matter how hard she tries

Her secret disguised behind the lies

And at night she cries away her pride

With eyes shut tight staring at her inside

All her friends know why she can't sleep at night

All her family asking is she alright

All she wants to do is get rid of this hell

Well all she's got to do is stop kiddin herself

She can only fool herself for so long

She can only fool herself for so long

She can only fool herself for so long

I'm too weak to face me

(She can only fool herself)

(chorus)

I never know just why you run so far away far away

from me

I never know just why you run so far away far away

from me

(chorus ends)

When it comes to how to live his life he can't be told

Says he got everything under control

Thinks he knows he's not a problem he's stuck with

But in reality it would be a problem to just quit

An addict and he can't hold the reigns

The pain is worse cause his friends have it the same

Tries to slow down the problem he's got

But can't get off the carousel until he makes it stop

He can only fool himself for so long

He can only fool himself for so long

He can only fool himself for so long

I'm too weak to face me

(He can only fool himself)

(chorus repeats 2x)

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