Linkin Park Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Dedicated Lyrics

I have a dream of a scene between the green hills

 Clouds pull away and the sunlight's revealed

 People don't talk about keeping it real

 It's understood that they actually will

 And intoxicated and stimulated emcees

 Staring in the trees, paranoid, are gone in the breeze

 Watch them flee, hip-hop hits

 Take a walk with me and what you'll see

 Is a land where the sand is made up of crushed up wax

 And the sky beyond you is krylon blue

 And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme

 And emcees have left materialism behind them

 Meanwhile I just grip my mic

 And hope me and my team make it through alright

 Because say what you will, and say what you might

 But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night

 

 [CHORUS]

 Because this is dedicated to the kids

 Dedicated to wherever music lives

 Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same

 And dedicated to the people advancin' the game

 What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong

 What's real is the kids who think they don't belong

 What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run

 Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun

 

 I've seen a lot of shit, I've talked to a bum

 Out on sunset strip, he asked me "How would you feel

 If everybody acted like you didn't exist

 You'd lose your grip, probably eventually flip."

 So let it be known, the only reason that we do this

 Is so you can pick it up and just bang your head to it

 While emcees fight to see who can be the commonest

 Be floatin overhead like a space odyssey monolith

 Over seeing the game, over being part of the same ol' thing

 It's all gonna change in a hurricane of darkness and pain

 And acidic rain and promises that you won't do it again

 Meanwhile I just grip my mic

 And hope me and my team make it through alright

 Because say what you will, and say what you might

 But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night

 

 [Chorus]

 

 Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside

 This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide

 Pulling me close, the shadow is warm inside

 This is where I feel at home, this is my place to hide

 

 [Chorus]

 

 This is dedicated to the kids

 Dedicated to wherever music lives

 Dedicated to those tired of the same ol' same

 And dedicated to the people advancin' the game

 What's real, everybody who doesn't feel safe

 What's real, everybody who knows they're out of place

 What's real, anybody with nowhere to run

 Who hides in the shadows waiting for the sun