The Hard Way Mike: Come with Me / Let Me Walk You Thru the World I

Home , Fort Minor, Jonah Matranga, Megadef, Mike Shinoda, Remember the Name, Styles of Beyond

the hard way

mike: come with me / let me walk you thru the world i currently stay in you can take a look around and tell me if i'm mistaken you can meet and talk to / everybody that i live with maybe you can tell me why everybody's so distant is it me or maybe / when i look around daily i don't even know the people i can put my trust in lately people that i used to hang with / now they're acting so different i'm still the same person why dosen't anybody listen can somebody please / just explain to me what happened to the way that we always said we'd be rigth now i dont' know why i pushed through the pain that i got through and i'm losing hope kenna: deafening voices / that frequency inside my head that says / i'm going at it the hard way i focus / get everything inside out of my brain that claims / i'm going at it the hard way mike: come with me / let me walk you thru the world i currently live in not a thing is forgotten / not a thing is forgiven nobody can hold their own underneath the weight but nobody can take the blame for they own mistakes so what do you do when somebody lets you down and you wanna say something but you can't cause they're not around inisde you think they know the extent of the pain but they won't even admit they were the one to blame can somebody please / just explain to me what happened to the way that we always said we'd be 'cause rigth now i dont' know why i pushed through the pain that i got through and i'm losing hope gimme one reason not to

there they go

[mike:] one time for my machine shop crew and then its two times s.o.b and lp too and then it's three times it's mike and six on the track and then four times when we come in through the back they're sayin

[chorus:] oh no close the door shut the lights and start to the show better let everybody know get on the mic and there they go

[mike:] armed and dangerous bitch ya'll cant really hang with us in this everyone's so afarid of us/ shit makes me wanna hang it up and quit forget aboit all the things you heard before 'bout time that we're kicking down your door everybody's gonna hit the fucking floor like " please mike dont hurt me anymore" i dont gotta have a secret lie or an alibi everybody knows why i'm here i'd just as soon crazk a bottle as crack you over the head with a bottle a bear so just listen up there powder puff better believe that i'm not playing you can love it you can hate but dont mistake it everboy's saying

[chorus] what you really wanna do is this just make believe thati dont exist but you wont cause everytime you go to sip i talk right over you just like this it's annoying just for you you can scream all day 'til your face is blue im gettin in your head and you know it too and thats just me you dont know my crew my man sixx john understand though the way that he flows you can call him rambo never miss a shot never run out of ammo coming with heat like a goddamn commando and in s.o.b ryu, tak, vin skully, cheapshot now you see fuck with me?, nah , sixx

[sixx john:] uh oh whatere you yell when you see that door colse imma bail through the back (fo sho) straight to the bar so i can act (a fool) i figure you guys would get a little surprised youy eyes wide when its me and mike shinod im just plain old sixx john from the nam- district this is not supposed i still talk with awkaward speech im like a dog that's off his leash step out with a fort minor patch on a black tee niggas scared to walk these streets i aint trippin homie talk is cheap accapella or we can bark on a beat and if that aint enough action i got seventeen pages in the little magazine i keep

[mike:] we got this place rockin' beat knockin non stopping if ya'll are with it let me hear it now (yeah) yo one time for my machine shop crew and then its two times s.o.b and lp too and then its three times its mike and sixx on the track and four times we do it like that

be somebody green lantern [echo] uh ms lupe ya know, i'm a fan man, i'm a real fan (gonna be somebody) feel real honored to be up in here, ya know i'm sayin (gonna be someone) they had to bring out the expensive mics for this one (gonna be somebody) ya know i'm sayin the seven thousand dolla headphones for this one here yeah, ya know i'm sayin (gonna be someone) comeon, talk to em

[mike shinoda] this is the story of them against us win or lose forcin' your feet into someone else's shoes everybody's got somein to say that we oughta live their way what we're doin's not okay in this world everybody's got a chip on both sides of their neck got no respect wait up a sec you ever feel like the pressure's too much too take too much weight ladies and gentlemen if anybody can hear me right now please shout back we're not the only ones feelin so trapped in a dream of somebody else in fact they got their heads full of some overblown scheme opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen and all they want to do is push you to be that and all you wanna do is scream back

[chorus] gonna be somebody for anybody tellin me i can't gonna be someone for anyone who told me i had no chance gonna be somebody i'm tellin you the time has come (like that) gonna be someone and maybe you'll get it when i'm finally done

[mike shinoda] we don't sleep to dream we sleep to build stamina energy to do our thing get your camera cuz this ride is about to begin sit down, and buckle it in let me say it again in this world everybody's got a chip on both sides of their neck got no respect wait up a sec when i was young they said the odds of makin it were slim, to none ladies and, fuck it i'm tired of them sayin' the dream you have doesn't exist tellin you you're worthless sayin' you should quit basically tellin' you that you'll never be shit really they're pissed cuz they'll never achieve some opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen and all they want to do is push you to be that and all you wanna do is scream back

[lupe fiasco] uh they gone think you're crazy mumblin' to yourself in the basement all day uh-uh-uhin to ya self my pops didn't dig it was shovelin to myself my boys used to get it they dug it because they felt my undertakin' took me i was makin' in my stealth for wealth of rhymes, of crazy i was chuckin' to myself then they went into the mental rolodex see i'm knowin' bout heart like a brain in my chest and i took up a school where subjects was gettin' felt books under my seat no book layin on my desk my teacher's like, mr. jacob yes? with all that knowledge you ain't tryin' to go to college be a lawyer or a doctor get a whole lotta dollas rather degrade women and glorify violence well the work that works for me might not work for you no homework, i got work to do

(im finally done)

fort minor - slip out the back (feat. mr. hahn) you know me, i used to get caught up in everyday life tried to make it through my day so i could sleep at night tried to figure out my way through the maze of rights and wrongs, but like you used to say nothing feels like it's really worth it forget perfect, i'm trying not to be worthless since i last saw you i been lookin for a purpose well i met this kid who thought like i did he had a weird way of lookin at it this is what he said slip out the back before they know you were there and at the worst you'll see nobody cares cos you dont wana be around when it all goes down even heroes know when to be scared slip out the back before they know you were there and at the worst you'll see nobody cares cos you dont wana be around when it all goes down even heroes know when to be scared i dont remember where i met him or remember his name but he walked funny like he was too big for his frame just over five foot but he weighed a buck fifty and what he said just seemed so right it stuck with me listen its like poker you can play your best but you got to know when to fold your cards and take a rest and know when to hold your cards and hold your breath and hope that nobody else is stacking the deck because i dont need to tell you that life isnt fair, it doesnt care it momentarily cuts off your air, and like you i want someone to say its okay but in the truest parts of our hearts everybody's afraid but just underappreciated and overwhelmed fighting so hard to hide our fear that were scaring ourselves you understand when im saying that you always did but its different in the words of a cowardly kid slip out the back before they know you were there and at the worst you'll see nobody cares cos you dont wana be around when it all goes down even heroes know when to be scared slip out the back before they know you were there and at the worst you'll see nobody cares cos you dont wana be around when it all goes down even heroes know when to be scared im no hero, you remember how i was, you know all i ever did was worry, feeling out of control to the point where everything was going end over end im spinning around in circles again this is where you come in all of this to explain to you why i had to separate myself away from yesterday's life please remember this isn't how i hoped it would be but i had to protect you from me thats why i slipped out the back before you knew i was there i know you felt unprepared but every single time i was around i just bring you down and i could tell that it was time to be scared thats why i slipped out the back before you knew i was there and i know the way i left wasnt fair i didnt want to be around just to bring you down im not a hero but dont think i didnt care fort minor - the battle these hungry rappers battle for a buck and some change there really be kids starving give a fuck if it change shock rap not that you get signed you might blow up release party in iraq. you might blow up i see you trying to think a few lines you might get at me with slap happy with babies who are born with crack in they cribs too much to cram under you oversized titled and the public system failed you either you ignore it or...

fort minor - red to black

(feat. kenna jonah matranga and styles of beyond) i had a friend named victor the two of us used to hang every single day and it seemed like overnight that his whole life just changed i know when his mom and dad broke up it didnt make sense but i know that his dad was a drunk and he gambled away the rent pretty soon vic was seein red pissed off but instead he drank every night til he passed out then he��d do it all again the whole time smiling on the outside to cover the pain but on the inside all he was tryin to do was get away dying to get away let the pain of yesterday go slipping through the cracks funny how things change color then fade to another shade when you had it made it was all good but now look just another day it was so fresh it was so clean now its all gone 1, 2, 3, lights out which way to turn can't get a grip all alone in a big white house everyday gets worse and you just curse 'til your head bursts and it hurts so bad she left like yourself should have thought of that one first no family, no kids, can��t accept what you did now you wanna runaway but you can't cuz the past comes back again slippin through the cracks sip a little jack go to bed half dead what about rent why does every cent gotta be a bet whens it gonna end oh my god, we dont got a penny left my mom��s gotta find a way to get a job outta debt, outta dodge, outta breath, outta this big problem my pops wanna get away from the pain in a better place in his brain but the medication he takes makes him wasted so sick if hes gonna think the good lord would come take him im shakin him wake up you son of a bitch he��s dying to get away let the pain of yesterday go slipping through the cracks hiding himself away watching all the memories fade away from red to black he��s dying to get away let the pain of yesterday go slipping through the cracks hiding himself away watching all the memories fade away from red to black (slipping through the cracks) fort minor - kenji my father came from japan in 1905 he was 15 when he immigrated from japan he, he... he worked until he was able to buy this patch and build a store let me tell you the story in the form of a dream, i don't know why i have to tell it but i know what it means, close your eyes, just picture the scene, as i paint it for you, it was world war ii, when this man named kenji woke up, ken was not a soldier, he was just a man with a family who owned a store in la, that day, he crawled out of bed like he always did, bacon and eggs with wife and kids, he lived on the second floor of a little store he ran, he moved to la from japan, they called him 'immigrant,' in japanese, he'd say he was called "esay," that meant 'first generation in the united states,' when everyone was afraid of the germans, afraid of the japs, but most of all afraid of a homeland attack, and that morning when ken went out on the doormat, his world went black 'cause, right there; front page news, three weeks before 1942, "pearl harbour's been bombed and the japs are comin'," pictures of soldiers dyin' and runnin', ken knew what it would lead to, just like he guessed, the president said, "the evil japanese in our home country will be locked away," they gave ken, a couple of days, to get his whole life packed in two bags, just two bags, couldn't even pack his clothes, some folks didn't even have a suitcase, to pack anything in, so two trash bags was all they gave them, when the kids asked mum "where are we goin'?" nobody even knew what to say to them, ken didn't wanna lie, he said "the us is lookin' for spies, so we have to live in a place called mandinar, where a lot of japanese people are," stop it don't look at the gunmen, you don't wanna get the soldiers wonderin', if you gonna run or not, 'cause if you run then you might get shot, other than that try not to think about it, try not to worry 'bout it; bein' so crowded, someday we'll get out, someday, someday. as soon as war broke out the g.i came and they just come to the house and "you have to come" "all the japanese have to go" they took mr. lee people didn't understand why did they have to take him? because he's an innocent labourer so now they're in a town with soldiers surroundin' them, every day, every night look down at them, from watch towers up on the wall, ken couldn't really hate them at all; they were just doin' their job and, he wasn't gonna make any problems, he had a little garden with vegetables and fruits that, he gave to the troops in a basket his wife made, but in the back of his mind, he wanted his families life saved, prisoners of war in their own damn country, what for? time passed in the prison town, he wanted them to live it down when they were free, the only way out was joinin' the army, and supposedly, some men went out for the army, signed on, and ended up flyin' to japan with a bomb, that 15 kilotonne blast, put an end to the war pretty fast, two cities were blown to bits; the end of the war came quick, ken got out, big hopes of a normal life, with his kids and his wife, but, when they got back to their home, what they saw made them feel so alone, these people had trashed every room, smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors, written on the walls and the floor, "japs not welcome anymore." and kenji dropped both of his bags at his sides and just stood outside, he, looked at his wife without words to say, she looked back at him wiped the tears away, and, said "someday we'll be okay, someday," now the names have been changed, but the story's true, my family was locked up back in '42, my family was there it was dark and damp, and they called it an internment camp when we first got back from camp... uhh it was... pretty... pretty bad i, i remember my husband said "are we gonna stay 'til last?" then my husband died before they close the camp. fort minor - high road (feat. john legend) lets go ya'll these people are running off at the mouth tryin to convince me that i'm running on empty tryin to convince themselves that the record with jay was a fluke that the record that i'm makin is a mistake and i cant take this lemme tell you where i'm at with this you bastards are gonna have to take back that shit i'm not plastic and fake when i make tracks i take facts and lay them out for the masses you assholes are gonna see soon that i'm not playin start askin me the names that i'm not sayin but i'm tryin to be bigger than the bickerin bigger than the petty name callin under the breath talkin rumors and labels and categorization i'm like a struggling doctor, no patients but you can say what you want about me keep talkin while i'm walkin away you can say what you have to say cuz my mind's made up anyway i'm taking the high road going above you this is the last time that i'm gonna trust you you can say what you have to say cuz my mind's made up anyway all that bullshit you talk might work a lot but it's not gonna work today you people are running off at the mouth tryin to make me take myself off safety tryin to make my friends turn their backs on the team we built buildin up some mistaken information and i cant take this lemme spell it out plain for you angry groups complain about the things we do im not changing direction, i'm stepping my game up maintainin my name, the same way i came up you're gonna see that i'm not playin start asking the names that i'm not sayin but im tryin not to mention the names of people who wanna sight and attention you like the hype but pretendin you're part of the picture wont pass you're like a high school dropout, no class you can say what you want about me keep talkin while i'm walkin away bitch you can say what you have to say cuz my mind's made up anyway i'm taking the high road going above you this is the last time that i'm gonna trust you you can say what you have to say cuz my mind's made up anyway all that bullshit you talk might work a lot but it's not gonna work today why does it always have to be somebody's always watching me all i really need is some room to breathe is anybody out there listening? cuz i cant stand to keep this in all i really want, i'll say it again you can say what you have to say cuz my mind's made up anyway i'm taking the high road going above you this is the last time that i'm gonna trust you you can say what you have to say cuz my mind's made up anyway all that bullshit you talk might work a lot but it's not gonna work today fort minor - 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... 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 humour faded when some magazines printed that our label made us we were to be good to be true some were saying ghost writers were writin' 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

fort minor - believe me

(feat. bobo and styles of beyond) i guess that this is where we've come to if you don't want to then you don't have to believe me but i won't be there when you go down just so you know now you're on your own now believe me i don't want to be the one to blame you like fun and games keep playing em i'm just sayin think back then we was like one and the same on the right track but i was on the wrong train just like that now you've got a face to pain and the devil's got a fresh new place to play in your brain like a maze you can never escape the rain every damn day is the same shade of grey hey i used have a little bit of a plan used to have a concept of where i stand but that concept slipped right out of my hands now i don't really even know who i am yo, what do i have to say maybe i should do what i have to do to break free what ever happens to you, we'll see but it's not gonna happen to me i guess that this is where we've come to if you don't want to then you don't have to believe me but i won't be there when you go down just so you know now you're on your own now believe me back then, i thought you were just like me somebody who could see all the pain i see but you proved to me unintentionally that you would self-destruct eventually now i'm thinking like the mistake i made doesn't hurt but it's not gonna work cause it's really much worse than i thought i wished you were something that you were not and now this guilt is really all that i got you turned your back and walked away in shame all you got is a memory of pain nothing makes sense so you stare at the ground i hear your voice in my head when no one's around what do i have to say maybe i should do what i have to do to break free what ever happens to you, we'll see but it's not gonna happen to me i guess that this is where we've come to if you don't want to then you don't have to believe me but i won't be there when you go down just so you know now you're on your own now believe me

i guess that this is where we've come to if you don't want to then you don't have to believe me but i won't be there when you go down just so you know now you're on your own now believe me do what i have to do you're on your own now believe me what ever happens to you you're on your own now believe me what do i have to say you're on your own now believe me it's not gonna happen to me you're on your own now believe me fort minor - cigarettes

man i love this rap game mainly cuz its cool to add a little spice to the life you've been through everyone exaggerates a tiny little bit to make that shit sound more gangster than it really is you cant appear weak man we wanna hear street wanna hear you spit your thug over this here beat dont take it as sarcastic i can't get enough im telling you you can call my bluff if it's not rough, then i really don't need it i'm not even ashamed i got too much reality thats filling up my brain so sell me on that chronic, i'm addicted to the game suck it up like a cigarette, light it up its just like a cigarette, its something that i do once in awhile but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool let me tell you something that i realized tonight my hip hop radio is like marlboro lights they're both selling stories and they sound about the same cigarettes say their safe, wrappers claim they really bang we dont care if it's true when we lay the money down we don't believe the words, we just love the way they sound they're acting like we're idiots, they're lying to our face maybe we are idiots, we buy it anyway i'm runnin out to get the next rapper's cd just suckin up the guns, drugs, and misogyny the same way that i suck up all the stories when i breathe that little bit of death supposedly cancer-free and everything they say's got the truth twisted up but twisted up's what i want man, i can't get enough cuz even though we know it's all just a big bluff we just light another up, what we don't give a fuck its just like a cigarette, its something that i do once in awhile but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool its just like a cigarette, its something that i do over and over but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool listen to the words, listen for awhile lip service radio, dont touch the dial if you're in the car turn up the track man give the whole neighborhood some second hand rap matter of fact listen for awhile lip service radio, dont touch the dial if you're in the car turn up the track man give the whole neighborhood some second hand rap its just like a cigarette, its something that i do once in awhile but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool its just like a cigarette, its something that i do over and over but between me and you its just like a cigarette nobody's really fooled i dont want the truth, i wanna feel fucking cool fort minor - back home

(feat. common and styles of beyond)

back home everybody's searching for somethin' but all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' back home ain't nobody hoping and praying 'cause they feel like nothing can save 'em and they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that life goes black when those lights go out but i guess you gotta just watch out for your own 'cause ain't a damn thing free back home common: back home / they holler "disciple" and "blackstone" same block the freebase yo we trapped on where our grandmothers marched / the guns clap on there's liquor stores, beauty supplies, and rap songs i travel the world just to come back to it the crib got a lot of soul like black music i'm attached to it in many ways this city raised me / and gave me the drama, honor, and bravery the streets seem hollow / when i go to chicago it's cheap wine and sorrow times is hard to swallow in search of god's tomorrow / i borrow words from the bible / and use them for survival / gangs rival signs painted on walls like hiero / glyphics i tell 'em that this is all tribal used to do dirt / shorty's goin' through the same cycle and trials like michael / tryin' not to stay idle back home everybody's searching for somethin' but all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' back home ain't nobody hoping and praying 'cause they feel like nothing can save 'em and they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that life goes black when those lights go out but i guess you gotta just watch out for your own 'cause ain't a damn thing free back home ryu: back home it's not compton but close the same problems exist and the pain throbbin' and folks are so common it don't / really bother us much we just swallow it / uh crack the bottle and smoke / hope tomorrow something magical happens that'll put me back in the biz but the chances of it acutally happening's kinda slim back home / we get the good life at a glimpse in the form of a rap star, drug dealers, and pimps i'm back home tak: i try my best to keep it together it's cold like the windy city streets of december i pace back and forth / looking for the courage to shine but can't lap the source / need something to nourish my mind i know we all lose quite a bit in life only to gain some life or the dark winding roads we came from but i move with the night / so i'm used to the shade and never lose sight / bringing truth back to the game mike: back home / we've got a lot of shit on our minds we're always behind on something cause there's not enough time and we're non-stop / bottom line / doing what we gotta do to get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hospital back home there's people calling us hopeless people trying to tell us all we need is some focus but focus focus is overrated cause you see every blemish and mistake and can't change it back home is alvarado / k-town and j-town or little tokyo for those that don't know where figures shiver / living right in the littler where kids write bigger / right inside the la river on the concrete / a symbol of our everyday way its that color and concentration over heavy and grey and by the time the ink dries on this page i'll be half a day away from the place where i stay back home everybody's searching for somethin' but all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' back home ain't nobody hoping and praying 'cause they feel like nothing can save 'em and they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that life goes black when those lights go out but i guess you gotta just watch out for your own 'cause ain't a damn thing free back home fort minor - in stereo

that beat is hot this is how it goes welcome one and all to the show we��re wired up, fired up, fuckin ready to go in the back of the parking lot outside of the bar twenty deep, twenty feet from the boulevard black hoodies, black caps, black label in glasses previewin the new shit before all the masses cos the first thing i need when i got a new beat is to see how it sounds echoing off the street i just take it for a spin, pop the cd in slide it up to ten and get that rear view shakin and play it again so there��s no mistakin san andreas, the block got this bitch earth quakin like oh-oh ready for it? here we go we got the whole block rockin in stereo takin control, lettin everybody know and if you feel it lemme hear everybody go oh-oh you��re not ready, i got plenty cups but twenty months drop steadily plenty tracks to empty on you wack pedigree i��m backed heavily, while you��re back pedalling forget the chit chat on me, homie kick back i��m on that shit that can get your homie bitch slapped so zip your lip back, listen and watch we got the whole block rockin off the way the beat knocks you dont have to warn the people on the corner �� they know that if you��re standing on that corner then you��re getting that show world premiering, hearing that machine shop flow san andreas, the block get this bitch earth quaking like oh-oh ready for it? here we go we got the whole block rockin in stereo takin control, lettin everybody know and if you feel it lemme hear everybody go oh-oh ready for it? here we go we got the whole block rockin in stereo takin control, lettin everybody know and if you feel it lemme hear everybody go turn the key, turn the volume up to loud roll right, roll every window down let the whole block know what this is about turn it up, y��all, burn that system out turn the key, turn the volume up to loud roll right, roll every window down let the whole block know what this is about turn it up, y��all, burn out that system like oh-oh ready for it? here we go we got the whole block rockin in stereo takin control, lettin everybody know and if you feel it lemme hear everybody go oh-oh ready for it? here we go we got the whole block rockin in stereo takin control, lettin everybody know and if you feel it lemme hear everybody go oh-oh let��s go ahead and test out the speakers you ready? let��s go, like this

fort minor - where'd you go?

(feat. holly brook and jonah matranga)

where'd you go? i miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone. she said "some days i feel like shit, some days i wanna quit, and just be normal for a bit," i don't understand why you have to always be gone, i get along but the trips always feel so long, and, i find myself tryna stay by the phone, 'cause your voice always helps me when i feel so alone, but i feel like an idiot, workin' my day around the call, but when i pick up i don't have much to say, so, i want you to know it's a little fucked up, that i'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin', tellin' you that i've had it with you and your career, me and the rest of the family here singing "where'd you go?" i miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone. where'd you go? i miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone, please come back home... you know the place where you used to live, used to barbeque up burgers and ribs, used to have a little party every hallowe'en with candy by the pile, but now, you only stop by every once in a while, shit, i find myself just fillin' my time, anything to keep the thought of you from my mind, i'm doin' fine, i plan to keep it that way, you can call me if you find you have somethin' to say, and i'll tell you, i want you to know it's a little fucked up, that i'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin', tellin' you that i've had it with you and your career, me and the rest of the family here singing "where'd you go?" i miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone. where'd you go? i miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone, please come back home... i want you to know it's a little fucked up, that i'm stuck here waitin', no longer debatin', tired of sittin' and hatin' and makin' these excuses, for while you're not around, and feeling so useless, it seems one thing has been true all along, you don't really know what you got 'til it's gone, i guess i've had it with you and your career, when you come back i won't be here and you'll can sing it... where'd you go? i miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone. where'd you go? i miss you so, seems like it's been forever, that you've been gone, please come back home... please come back home... please come back home... please come back home... please come back home... fort minor - feel like home

(feat. styles of beyond)

these days are dark and the nights are cold people actin like they lost their soul and everywhere i go, i see another person like me tryin to make it all feel like home (feel like home) these days are dark and the nights are cold people actin like they lost their soul and everywhere i go, i see another person like me tryin to make it all feel like home standin on the bridge in the dark and i'm seein my breath tryin to make it home without freezin to death and my grandfather's face is stuck in my mind and how seein him tonight's gonna be the last time i shoulda brought a jacket blowin in my hands like it's really gonna stop the chill i buy a cup of coffee with a 5 dollar bill thinkin layin in that box people look so still at times like these you start thinking your first breath in and the clock starts tickin i'm not tryin to bum anyone out not trying to be dramatic just thinkin out loud im just trying to make some sense in my mind some defense from the cold that i'm feelin outside and for a minute escapewith some rhythm and rhyme and get away from the grey just a bit at a time kinda funny how this world can treat ya like a freak in a sideshow a carnival creature climbin outta cans, im a diamond in the sand but you cant tell the difference in a beach of rhinestones my life's like tryin to swallow a pinecone it's tough when you live fast just to die slow talk to dial tones my dreams are far fetched it seems so i sleep underneath this park bench i know it dont make sense and i dont expect for you to know what it's like smoke, drink, pissin everything off in my sight push rocks in a pipe lift-off i keep puffin til my lips turn white and my chest gets tight but who the fuck really cares when you're so far left that even death is right all i can do is hope for the best and pray that it gets a little better than yesterday these days are dark and the nights are cold people actin like they lost their soul and everywhere i go, i see another person like me tryin to make it all feel like home these days are dark and the nights are cold people actin like they lost their soul and everywhere i go, i see another person like me tryin to make it all feel like home yo part of me, i think i mixed the word too many problems goin on thats why i left my girl packed my bags and i travel with a pen and my notepad who said i was broke and all the things that i dont have but still i try to find a way to escape from what i hate planted in my head that led to mistakes but now im breakin the mold see i was patient and calm many sleep in the rain but i'm awake in the storm writin my life in a short film the rise and fall how i managed to scorch hills and climb the wall pound pavement, aimless in this cold existence even the things that change and i'm going the distance overcoming the depth i had controlled for so long and put it all behind me cos life still goes on now i'm much stronger, i know where i stand we'll all soul search over and over again these days are dark and the nights are cold people actin like they lost their soul and everybody's tryin not to cry tryina get by and tryin not to feel outta control and if you look hard enough, sometimes you'll find a place that might just remind you of home but if it doesn't feel like home, you can do what i do just pretend you don't feel so alone (so alone, so alone...) feel like home..... fort minor - petrified

yall are not, not, not ready ho not not ready ho we're gonna drop it steady so do it like that like that (like that).... now why is everybody so petrified? what? petrified? what? step aside. and just drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! yeah how you doin', y'all? my name is mike. i'm fooling with the new shit i'm doing it all like i like what i do i do what i like i could quit and get it back like i'm riding a bike like stop...... bring it back, bring it back we got that balance keeping us on track that ya get what ya move and quit, wit no slow you stare like you don't care but you do it though i know you really must be so lonely puffed up, lookin' tough, but so phony you and your boys, you don't know me you really wanna hold me show me, homie. lets get it over with for good i got a friction addiction i wish you would machine shop rockin' when we step inside and we got everybody so petrified now why is everybody so petrified? what? petrified? what? step aside. and just drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! listen you are not ready like children in a building you can't stand steady it must be the beat so heavy coz i panic attacks like a crack in the levy give you that rob or plant dancing days are back feeling all in the track and in fact for those knowing the name of back with some brand new crap who can do it like that? you really must be so lonely puffed up, lookin' tough, but so phony you and your boys, you don't know me you really wanna hold me show me, homie. tough talk doesn't mean a thing you know for yourself you know when we're up in a scene its machine shop rockin' when we step inside and we got everybody so petrified now why is everybody so petrified? what? petrified? what? step aside. and just drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! now why is everybody so petrified? what? petrified? what? step aside. and just drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! yall are not, not, not ready ho not not ready ho we're gonna drop it steady so do it like that like that (like that)... yall are not, not, not ready ho not not ready ho we're gonna drop it steady so do it like that like that (like that)... get up now why is everybody so petrified? what? petrified? what? step aside. and just drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! drop that... come on! like stop...... bring it back bring it back we got that balance keeping us on track like stop...... bring it back bring it back we got that balance keeping us on track like stop...... bring it back bring it back we got that balance keeping us on track like stop...... bring it back bring it back we got that balance keeping us on track stop...stop...stop...stop...stop.. 'chine shop! shop...shop...shop fort minor - right now

(feat. black thought of the roots and styles of beyond)

someone right now is leaving their apartment looking down at the street wondering where there car went someone in the car sitting at a signal in front of a restaurant staring through the window at someone right now with their finger in their teeth who could use a little floss right across the street theres somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket spent half a grand at a bar getting plastered now hes gotta walk fourteen blocks to work at a shop where hes about to get fired. someone right now is looking pretty tired staring at a laptop trying to get inspired somebody living right across the street shes wrote the best things shes written all week but her best friends coughing up blood in the sink cant even think what happened feeling so confused and he knows it looks bad but there nothing he can do i wonder what its like to be right there in his shoes but no im just taking it in out the window of a hotel bedroom again tomorrow ill be gone i dont know when ill be back and this world everything can change just like that, that, just like that, just like that that, just like that, just like that yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box and trying not to get shot in his throat for the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in iraq hoping that he gets shipped back breathing in a war that hes not really sure of the reasons so we show our support when the press mislead them though we more then remain proud and salute the troops get some i know you boys got some work to do meanwhile right now someones 25 to life and is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchhiking stretching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner sneaking through the water just to work and to eat a real dinner right now someone wishes they were you and i instead of second guessing fatal thoughts of quiet suicide but right now im staring at the window at a fiend with holes in his arm and holes in his jeans he pulled out a cigarette and sparked a light and walked right around the corner just outta my sight but yo im just taking it in from the second story hotel window again, the tv's on, and my bags are packed, but in this world everything can change just like that, like that, like that, like that, ya right now somebodys sittin in the darkness trying to figure out how to put some heat in their apartment but they got a little mattress a little carpet and they appreciate it cause some people on a park bench you see em when you rushing to get to the office wife ride by em when she comin from the market right now somebody comin out the pocket tryin to dump that rock they runnin around the block with same time cops is raisin the glock with aim to fill your legs and your back with some hot shit right now somebodys strugglin to stop this man thats kicking and punching cussing at the doctors down the hall a child is takin his first breath the doctors aint even passed him to the nurse yet yo i wonder if he understand what its worth yet like the time spent on while we hear on the earth yet the answers to the questions we all seek can be found it depend on how free yall think right now its somebody who aint eat all week that would kill for the shit you throw away in the street i guess one mans trash is another mans treasure one mans pain is the next mans pleasure one say infinity the next say forever right now everybody got to get it together man im just taking it in another strange hotel lobby again put my luggage on my back i dont know where im at im in world where we all change just like that, like that, like that, just like that, like that, just like that but no im just taking it in out the window of a hotel bedroom again tomorrow ill be gone i dont know when ill be back and this world everything can change just like that, that, just like that....

remember the name

you ready? lets go yeah for those who wanna know what we're all about its like this y'all it's 10% luck 20% skill 15% conncentrated power of will 5% pleasure 50% pain and 100%reason to remember the name mike! he doesnt need his name up in lights he just wants to be heard whether its the beat or the mic he feels so unlike every body else, alone in spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him but fuck em he knows the code: its not about the salary, its all about reality and making some noise making the story making sure his clique stays up that means when he puts it down, tak's pickin it up who the hell is he anyway? he never really talks much never concerned with status but still leavin 'em starstruck humbled through oppurtunities givin despite the fact that many misjudge him because he makes a living from writing raps put it together himself and the picture connects never askin for someones help, or to get some respect hes only focused on what he wrote his will is beyond reach and now it all unfolds the skill of an artiste 80% beer be 100% clear cuz ryu is ill who woulda thought hed be the one to set the west in flames i heard him wreck it with the crystal method name of the game came back dropped megadef, took em to church i like bleach man ryu had the stupidest verse this dude is the truth now everybodys givin him guest spots his stocks through the roof i heard hes fuckin with s-dot! ryu! they call him ryu the sick and hes spitting fire and mic got him out the dryer hes hot found him in fort minor with tak he's a fucking nihilist porcupine hes a prick hes a cock the type women wanna be with and rappers hope he gets shot 8 years and the makin patiently waitin to blow now the record with shinoda's takin over the globe hes got a partner in crime his shit is equally dope you wont believe the kinda shit that comes outa of this kids throat tak! he's not your every day on the block he knows how to work with what hes got makin his way to the top he often gets a comment on his name people keep askin him was it given at birth or was it stand for an acronym no he's livin proof, look at him rockin the booth he'll get you buzzin quicker than a shot of vodka with juice him and his crew are known around as one of the best dedicated to what they do, and give 100 forget mike nobody real knows how or why, he works so hard it seems like hes never got time becuz he writes every note, and he writes every line and ive seen him at work, when that light goes on in his mind its like a design is written in his head every time before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme and those mothafuckas he runs with, the kids that he signed, rediculous without even tryin how do they do it? fort minor m shinoda styles of beyond ryu, takbir, cheapshot!