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The dude, he said that, like, |
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when we were making the first Linkin Park record |
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He was like, |
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"Yeah you know, I don't know about the rapping like, |
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I don't know... maybe you should just be a rock band." |
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You know what I mean, like, trying to change us |
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like they signed us as an act like what we sound like and then he's like |
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"Oh I don't know maybe you should just play keyboard" |
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Before the first song that you heard me on |
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There were people already tryin' to get me gone |
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Tellin' me to quit rapping |
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"Just play the keys" |
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That my band had a singer |
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They didn't need me |
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But my band had my back |
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So we did the tracks |
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Put out the album and the talk went flat |
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It was funny at first but then the humour faded |
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When some magazines printed that our label made us |
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We were to be good to be true |
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Some were saying ghost writers were writin' all that we do |
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So we had to disprove it |
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We spelled it out to the detail how we do it when we're making this music |
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After that I made it a rule |
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I only do e-mail responses to print interviews |
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Because these people love to put a twist to your words |
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To infer that you said something ****ing absurd |
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Oh, did I lose you at infer? |
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Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words? |
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People used to infer that we were manufactured |
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Now I've got the interviews on file |
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Which people said what |
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Which number to dial |
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So now every enemy screaming insanity |
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All they're ever gonna be's another big fan of me |
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Bitch |
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