Music to Share: Linkin Park – The Little Things Give You Away

Haven’t shared any music lately, so here’s a tune that’s caught my attention.

Linkin Park, is a band which I have come to appreciate over the last couple of years. Not for the faint of heart, their music can run in the pretty hard care end of things, but they also have some very pretty ballads. The band’s popularity can be attested to by appearances on a couple of Big Shiny Tunes albums (#6, #8,) and this is probably how I was introduced to them as I often prefer to check out mixed albums before going out and buying a CD of an entire artist.

The latest album, Minutes to Midnight, is very good – in my humble opinion. A perfect blend of harder rock (I recommend Bleed it Out – not their hardest, but catchy) and nice mellow stuff (or hehe… my version of mellow.) The following song is one I like as a whole. Lyrically, I can’t say I completely get it… although I do from a broader level … I think it’s a tad on the depressing end of things… but… that being said, I love the way the song comes together, slowly building, then well… take a listen…. my favorite part is the ending…

 

Linkin Park
The Little Things Give You Away

Water grey

through the windows
Up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean
Everywhere

Chorus:
Don’t want to reach for me do you?
I mean nothing to you
The Little Things Give You Away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet / under water
I do
(End Chorus)

Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares

Don’t want to reach for me do you?
I mean nothing to you
The Little Things Give You Away
But now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now I
Now I do

Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away

(Little things give you away)

All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you

(Little things give you away)

All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you

(Little things give you away)

All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you

(Little things give you away)

All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you

(Little things give you away)

All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you

(Little things give you away)

All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you

(Little things give you away)

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