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 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

Ha ha ha, you believe that? Like that's crazy

Sounds crazy right? You're like this point, at this point you figure

You hear that and you're like, "That guy is out of his mind"

But honestly at that point, 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 st, like when we play

I swear to God he's crazy, it was crazy, cowboy hat, yeah

And later on he claimed that he wrote our

All our songs, so that was real nice