[X-ecutioners]
Watch them flee… watch them flee
Rap rap rap up
Watch them flee
Hip-Hop hits
And you do it like this

[Mike Shinoda]
[Verse 1]
It’s going down
The rhythm projects ’round the next sound
Reflects the complex hybrid dialect now
Detects the mesh of many elements compressed down
The melting pot of a super-futuresque style
The combination of vocal caress
With lungs the gasp for breath
From emotional stress
With special effects
And a distorted collage
Carefully lodged between beats of rhythmic barrage

[Pre-chrus x2:]
It’s going down
The logical progression on the timeline
The seperation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey
Now it’s going down
A logical progression on the timeline
The seperation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey
Now it’s going down

[Chorus (X-ecutioners with Mike Shinoda):]
Put it out for the world to see
LP and X-Men to the 10th degree (It’s goin down)
Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate (It’s going down)

[Mike Shinoda]
[Verse 3]
Once again it is
Composed sentences
All together venomous
The four elements of natural force
Projected daily through the sound of the source
Everybody on board as we blend
The sword with the pen
The mightiest the weapons
Swinging right from the chin
To elevate of mental states
Long gone with the wind
To defend men from shoddy imitation pretends
It’s going down
Style assimilation readily
Trekking through the weaponry
Of the pure pedigree
Cleverly seeing through whatever is ahead of me
Whatever the weather be
We invent the steadily
It’s going down sub-terrestrial high
I rhyme regiment that’s calling the shots
Exectution of colloborative plots
Ready to bring the seperation of style to a stop

[Pre-chorus]

[Chorus (X-ecutioners with Mike Shinoda)]

[X-ecutioners]
X-men ’bout to blast off world wide
Yo it’s a request only
X-men ’bout to blast off world wide
It’s built from scratch
Album in stores soon
‘Bout to blast off world wide
And you do it like this
Just like this

[X-ecutioners]
Put put…put it up
I said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It’s going down
Put put…put it up
I said it goes like this
And you do it like this
It’s going down

[X-ecutioners, Mike Shinoda]
Like this
Like this
Like this
Like this
Like this

Cut and bruised by the fall again
Lick my wounds like a dog again
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel
That I see I see please let it be but don’t
Wake me till the morning after [3x]

Oh I’m so tired there has got to be an end
to the pain I feel when I’m
awake and alive alive alive
alive and I’m dreamin’

Caught up against the wall again
Tied and chained to the ball again
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel
That I see I see please let it be but don’t
Wake me till the morning after [3x]

Oh I’m so tired there has got to be an end
to the pain I feel when I’m
Awake and alive alive alive
Alive and I’m dreamin’

There was a time when your mind wasn’t out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
Like a pill you couldn’t swallow so it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home

And like that
Broken down
A victim of your plight

Fire so out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul

And like that
Broken down
A victim of you lies

You hide behind
Lies
You don’t know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You’re lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies

I don’t know what I thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I fought for my place
And drop what I made thought you might say so

I’m guessing that you probably know
When your inside’s hollow and you want to be cold
Like a pill I couldn’t swallow and it swallow me whole
Another lie hard to follow, it followed you home

And like that
Broken down
A victim of your lies

You hide behind
Lies
You don’t know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped inside your lies
You hide behind
Lies
You’re lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies

You’re faking, you’re mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Forsaken, what would take me?
Analyzing by the power of your soul

Broken down, a victim of your
Faking, you’re mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Broken down, a victim of your lies

You hide behind
Lies
You don’t know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don’t know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don’t know
Why
You hide behind
Wrapped up inside your lies

You hide behind
Lies
You don’t know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You’re lost inside that cold disguise
Behind your lies

The sunlight burns the skin of sleeping men
I make the right turns but I’m lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up gettin’ hurt again

[pre-chorus:]
By myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can’t rely on myself (Myself)
I ask why (but in my mind I find)
I can’t rely on myself

[chorus]:
I can’t hold on
To what I want when I’m stretched so thin
It’s all too much to take in
I can’t hold on
To anything watchin’ everything spin
With thoughts of failure sinking in

If I turn my back I’m defenseless
And to give in to fate seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on
Then they’ll take from me ’til everything is gone
If I let them go I’ll be outdone
But if I try to catch them I’ll be outrun
If I’m killed by the questions like a cancer
Then I’ll be buried in the silence of the answer…

[pre-chorus and chorus]

How do you think
That I’ve lost so much
I’m always afraid
That I’m out of touch
How do you expect
That I will know what to do
When all I know
Is what you tell me to

Don’t you (know)
I can’t tell you how to make it (go)
No matter what I do, how hard I (try)
I can’t seem to convince myself (why)
I’m stuck on the outside
[x2]

[chorus]

I can’t hold on
To what I want when I’m stretched so thin
It’s all too much to take in
I can’t hold on
To anything watchin’ everything spin
With thoughts of failure from with…(in)

Why won’t you die?
Your blood in mine…
We’ll be fine…
Then your body will be mine

So many words
Can’t describe my face
This feeling’s evolved
So soon to break out
I can’t relate
to a happy state
feeling the blood run inside

Why won’t you die?
Your blood in mine…
We’ll be fine…
Then your body will be mine

Why is everything so fucking hard for me?
Keep me down to what you think I should be!
Must you tempt me and provoke the ministry?

Keep on trying I’ll not die so easily

I will not die…

Why is everything so fucking hard for me?

I will not die…

Why is everything so fucking hard for me?

I will not die…

Why won’t you die?
Your blood is mine….
We’ll be fine….
Then your body will be mine [x2]