(feat. Linkin Park)
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You know me, I used to get caught up in everyday life
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Trying to make it through the..., so I can sleep at night
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Tried to figure out my way through the maze
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Of rights and wrongs, but like you used to say,
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Nothing feels like it's really worth it, forget perfect!
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I'm trying not to be worthless
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Since I last saw you I been looking for a purpose
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Well, I met this kid who thought like I did
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He had a weird way of looking at it
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This is what he said!
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Slip out the back before they know you were there
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And at the worst you'll see nobody cares,
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Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
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Even heroes know when to be scared!
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Slip out the back before they know you were there
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And at the worst you'll see nobody cares,
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Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
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Even heroes know when to be scared!
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Slip out the back before they know you were there
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And at the worst you'll see nobody cares,
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Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
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Even heroes know when to be scared!
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Now I don't remember where I met him or remember his name,
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But he walked funny like he was just too big for his frame
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Just over five foot but he weighed a above fifty
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And what he said just seemed so right,t it stuck with me
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Listen, it's like poker!
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You can play your best, but you got to know when to fold your cards
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And take a rest
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And know when to hold your cards and hold your breath,
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And hope that nobody else is stacking the deck,
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Because I don't need to tell you that life isn't fair,
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It doesn't care, it arbitrarily cuts off your air, and like
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You I want someone to say it's OK
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But in the truest parts of our hearts everybody's afraid
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We just unappreciated and overwhelmed
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Fighting so hard to hide our fear that were scaring ourselves
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You understand when I'm saying, cause you always did
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But it's different in the words of a cowardly kid
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Slip out the back before they know you were there
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And at the worst you'll see nobody cares,
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Cause you don't wanna be around when it all goes down
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Even heroes know when to be scared!
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I'm no hero, you remember how I was, you know
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All I ever did was worry, feeling out of control
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To the point where everything was going end over end
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I'm spinning around in circles again
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This is where you come in!
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All of this to explain to you why
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I had to separate myself away from yesterday's life
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Please remember this isn't how I hoped it would be,
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But I had to protect you from me!
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That's why I slipped out the back before they know I was there
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I know you felt unprepared
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But every single time I was around, I just bring you down
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And I could tell that it was time to be scared!
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That's why I slipped out the back before you knew I was there
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And I know the way I left wasn't fair
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I didn't want to be around just to bring you down
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I'm not a hero but don't think I didn't care!
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I also represent anyone on the receiving end of those jokes you offend
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I'm the nightmare you fell asleep and then woke up still in
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I'm your karma closing in with each stroke of a pen
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Perfect time to have some remorse to show for your sin
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Nope, it's hopeless! I'm the denial that you're hopelessly in!
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When they say all of this is approaching its end
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But you refuse to believe that it's over,
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Here we go all over again!
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Backs to the wall, I'm stacking up all them odds
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Toilets clogged, yeah cause I'm talking a lot of shit
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But I'm backing it all up
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But in my head there's a voice in the back
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And it hollers after the track is demolished
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"I am your lack of a conscience"
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I'm the ringing in your ears,
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I'm the polyps on the back of your tonsils
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Eating your vocal chords after your concerts
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I'm your time that's almost up that you haven't acknowledged
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Grab for some water, but I'm that pill that's too jagged to swallow
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I'm the bullies you hate,
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That you became with every faggot you slaughtered
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Coming back on you, every woman you insult,
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Batter, but the double-standards you have
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When it comes to your daughters I represent everything
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You take for granted cause Marshall... the rapper's persona's half a facade
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And .... and Stan's just symbolic
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Of you not knowing what you had 'till it's gone
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Cause after all the... and the glam
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No more fans that are calling your name,
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Cameras are off, sad, but it happens to all of them
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I'm the hindsight to say, 'I told you so!'
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Foreshadows of all the things that are to follow
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I'm the future that's here to show you what happens tomorrow
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If you don't stop after they call ya
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Biggest laughing stock of rap who can't call it quits
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When it's time to walk away, I'm every guilt trip
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The baggage you have, but as you gather up all your possessions,
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If there's anything you have left to say,
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Unless it makes an impact, then don't bother
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So 'fore you rest your case, better make sure you're packing the... !
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So one last time, I'm back,
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Before it fades into black and it's all
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Over, behold the final chapter in a saga
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Trying to recapture that lightning trapped in a bottle
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Twice, the magic that started
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It all, tragic portrait of an artist tortured,
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Trapped in his own drawings
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Tap into thoughts blacker and darker
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Than anything imaginable,
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Here goes a wild stab in the dark....
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I slipped out the back before they know I was there
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I know you felt unprepared
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But every single time I was around, I just bring you down
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And I could tell that it was time to be scared!
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That's why I slipped out the back before you knew I was there
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And I know the way I left wasn't fair
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I didn't want to be around just to bring you down
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I'm not a hero but don't think I didn't care!
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That's why I slipped out the back before you knew I was there
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And I know the way I left wasn't fair
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I didn't want to be around just to bring you down
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I'm not a hero but don't think I didn't care!
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Heroes
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