Lyrics Mike Shinoda

Mike Shinoda

Lift Off

(I'm off of the Earth, on a ride, alone)

Yeah

Lift off like Virgin Galactic

My Richard's too Branson to fuck with you bastards

Very legendary that's some matter of fact shit

You're the opposite of star, it's like rats spelled backward

I flow poems out to Saturn and passed it

Easy as a standard anti-gravity backflip

Satellite tracking can't map up my tactics

I spit the same shit they split an atom in half with

No, it's not what I want but it had to be

I spent six months just recharging my battery

Imagine me quitting, what a travesty that'd be

You space shuttle Challengers are nothin' but tragedies

So take care on the path that you're headed

I'm the father to your star, don't you ever forget it

I don't drop mics, only let it smoke where I set it

And I don't play, even when they press it, get it?

I'm off of the Earth, on a ride, alone

I'm drifting away, out of time, afloat

Away from the truth, away from the night, away from the day

I'm off of the Earth, on a ride, alone

Please brace for impact

I must've went to space and got sent back

But I'm still intact

In fact, take a picture of me

You can see that I'm a star with your lens cracked

Supernova, in Caesar's Palace stuntin' on my opponents

'Cause history'll show, we done been to war like Romans

Did that dance with the devil, hell hot as a kettle

So it's no wonder why I put this ice on all of my metal

And wear that shit like a medal

Used to think I was a joker, no Jared Leto

When I said I'd get us out the ghetto

Slam my foot on the pedal

Book the studio when I couldn't afford instrumentals

Fuck it, record acappella

Flyin' coach dreaming Coachella until they banned me

Now they like Bambi's mother's, dead

I'm on to these Grammies

I'm rollin' these grams gladly, purple and green like Daphne

Shades on like Velma, hair long like Shaggy

Crushin' addys in my water, got my voice raspy

Haven't slept since California and that shit was last week

Paranoid when I sleep

But when I'm high, I'm happy

That's why I need to kiss the sky when I get stuck in the valley

Lift off

I'm off of the Earth, on a ride, alone

I'm drifting away, out of time, afloat

Away from the truth, away from the night, away from the day

I'm off of the Earth, on a ride, alone