Lyrics for What I've Done as interpreted by minuteman

What I've Done Lyrics
In this farewell
There's no blood, there's no alibi
'Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth of a thousand lies
So let mercy come and wash away

What I've done, I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself and let go of what I've done

Put to rest what you thought
Of me while I clean this slate
With the hands of uncertainty
So let mercy come and wash away

What I've done, I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself, and let go of what I've done

For what I've done, I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends, I'm forgiving

What I've done, I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become, erase myself
And let go of what I've done

What I've done
Forgiving what I've done

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J95SE
04-14-2007

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Whoo! first post for my profile
anyway the song and video both are good and my b-day is the same day the album comes out! sweet

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Bubblegum
04-15-2007

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there are so many artists making songs about what we've done in/to this world. it teaches us a lesson though.

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Cavenaghi
04-15-2007

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gr8 & awsome can't wait for the new album to hit the stores

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EricsOzone
04-15-2007

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Just from a first impression this is my idea of the video and song: Shows how American commercialism isn't benefiting the rest of the world. Some would like to think we contribute, such as "Helping" other places that are starving while we are leading two different paths of starving ourselves for glamour and fame or destroying ourselves through over eating and ruining everything we touch for the 'better' of society - to keep costs low and not change anything we do. This is achieved not only through the blood of other humans, but through our own blood.

However, there's always the next generation to start everything over again, metaphorically. We can change our laws, the way we go about helping other people. We can try to fix our mistakes of the past, by learning from the past. Not deciding to choose blood over talking.

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MrHahnKitty
04-16-2007

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My friend thinks it's about Chester's addiction when he was younger... it makes some sense, but I think it's more about changing and hoping to make things better.

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GhostEyes
04-17-2007

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Does anyone else think of Abe Lincoln when they hear Linkin Park, or is it just me?

I love this song. I've always loved songs with a redemption tone to them. Sweet.

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nukey
04-18-2007

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this is about the same person from faint but now he's asking for forgiveness from his old friends.
"In this farewell There's no blood, there's no alibi"-if there's no blood it's not terorism, war or something else it's about a person who left his friends for othe gang or some other people [more information on faint lyrics] and now he's asking for forgiveness from his old friends and he wants to be back with them.
faint s about his story and this song what ive done is "the forgiveness asking speech" of the same person from faint

really good song and another thing i didnt see mike on the video he left the band or something

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nameless_undertaker
04-18-2007

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Mike IS in the video.He is just playing guitar tho....:(

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+Bloody_Angel+
04-18-2007

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I really like this song, the opening vocals remind me of My December, which is their best song in my opinion. I don't mind that Mike isn't showing up all that much. I mean, it's LP without him, but I really like this song.

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IndelibleEntity
04-19-2007

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This song is lyrically shallow and musically boring.

Na-Na-Na? Linkin Park? Singing na-na-na? Huh? Really? Gross.

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mulcite
04-19-2007

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Has no one seen the connection?
This song is so obviously the exact message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Before you rebuke me, just look at it! -Forgivness- comes by God's -mercy- through Christ and -washes away- sin, -cleaning a person's slate- and -cross-ing out what they've become; this is exactly what the song is saying! I'm not saying LP meant this, but the parallel is entirely there whether you wish to admit it or not.
And so I must ask, if you agree with the lyrical message of this song, then that means you agree with the message of Christ, so what's keeping you from asking forgiveness?

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phlp314
04-19-2007

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yea, this is pretty blatantly a cry to God...i wonder what the backstory is to this song? This would be a #1 hit on the Christian Rock charts if done by any other band. Good stuff.

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NoNotTheBees
04-23-2007

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I like Linkin Park's old style of music, but it's stupid for people to go "WTF man it shooda bin louda wit mo' hardcore SCREAMIN' and shiz!" because face it, that stuff is the sort of image you would market towards angsty 12-year-olds. Linkin Park's long been needing to grow up past their "AN'IMMABOUTA BREAK!" phase, and you can tell they're trying to do that with this song. But the thing is, they may have tried so hard to do so that they basically undid a lot of what made their old music unique. The potential problem isn't that "itz not hardcore enuff" but the fact that they might have severely toned down the DJ work to the point that they're no different from any other band.

And I can't believe people are actually criticizing *this* song for being lyrically shallow. Not because this song isn't, but because ALL Linkin Park songs are lyrically shallow. 95% of their songs are variations of the same themes of "OMG teh pain inside!" or "WTF SHUDDAP WHEN IM TALKING 2 U!!!!11" and this song is lyrically EXACTLY their old stuff. Linkin Park's strong suit is their unique style of music, not their lyrics. The people who actually listen to them for "moving" lyrics are probably angsty teens in middle school or something.

Another thing I never understand is whenever I read people commenting on this song or the music video or whatever, I always see all these people who call themselves fans and yet don't even seem to know some basic facts about the band. Like the fact that the band has ONE regular guitarist, and if you see two people on guitar, then the second one is Mike Shinoda. I always see folks watch the video and somehow think that Mike Shinoda is missing from it or something, as if they don't even know what he looks like. And then there are the people who just assume he's absent when they don't hear rapping, completely oblivious to the fact that he can actually play instruments. I mean they've been performing songs like Faint and Breaking the Habit for years now, yet I still see people all surprised when they see Mike doing something other than rap.

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Leblanc
04-23-2007

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Okay who doesn't know that Mike plays guitar? I mean come on, if your a fucking LP fan you should know that he plays guitar!

I hate when people say that they are a bands biggest fan when they don't know shit about them! FUCK OFF!

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Fallen Leaves
04-23-2007

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I like the LP songs that i have heard. And i like this one. im sure its a political song. and people, i agree with Leblanc, don't say you are the "biggest fan" bc there are probably people out there who stalk the LP members...

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xtrubeastxcs
04-23-2007

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This song, to me, relates to one of my best friends ever that was a girl. A little less than a year ago, when summer hit, my best friend who was a girl and I were separated, unnoticed by either of us. When school came back around, things just weren't the same, she wouldn't come to me with problems and I just had less of them, or I'd goto someone else. But the point was, she feels I'm a complete different person, a bad person. But I'm really not, sure I'm a little more popular than before, but this is how it was last year for me too, my personality blossomed and therefor I made more friends. But the thing is she believes that I 'm "Too popular to talk to her anymore" and thats not true at all and I didn't want it to be like this. And I want to be her best friend again but at the same time I don't see why she thinks I'm all that bad..

Put to rest what you thought
Of me while I clean this slate
With the hands of uncertainty
So let mercy come and wash away

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angel of sloth
04-24-2007

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this song is good, but i like their older style. i like it better when they were a Nu Metal band, but this is ok.

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byakuya93
04-24-2007

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LP has surely changed a lot. i'm quite amazed that they can change like that. when i first heard it i was really disappointed but then after listening to it again and again i noticed that they did well. but i miss all they're rapping and screaming. i cant wait to get a hold of their album. they say that they changed theyre style.

i think that this whole song talks about global warming. theyre saying that what we have done to the world is changing everything and that we can change it.

i like the song but i want MIKE to do something more than that backup...

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MrHahnKitty
04-25-2007

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personally, i think the na-na-na thing is ok. it kinda fits in.

i hope the rest of the songs are better though.

can't wait. :)

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mike16
04-28-2007

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i love this song,i hope mike shinoda doesent rap in the new albumn it gets really annoying with him rapping.they sound alot better without the rapping

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Manicville
05-02-2007

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Linkin Park is slapping us in the face by releasing this as the first single from Minutes to Midnight. They're slapping us to make us realize that this is a very different style of music, and to keep us on our toes for when the rest of the album comes out. I'm sure they have one or two songs on MtM that sound like Meteora (Probably not Hybrid Theory) and if they'd released one of those we'd dismiss the entire new album as the same old stuff.

This builds further anticipation and would have been completely unexpected if they hadn't been blabbing about how different their sound was going to be.

Btw, the Minutes to Midnight is in fact a reference to the Doomsday Clock that measures proximity to nuclear war. I think it was a Kerrang interview or something where they said that.

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phoenix_phyre
05-03-2007

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I first heard this song going home one night. Without watching the video, I got the impression that they're talking about letting of your past and rising anew, like a phoenix from the ashes. Like a lot of their other songs, they leave the interpretation(sp?) up to the listener, which is one of many things that I love about Linkin Park. The song rocks, and I can't wait to get the album when it releases.

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djnick
05-03-2007

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Very disappointed in this track! LP says they are coming with a new sound and it sound exactly like their old stuff. And the sound and chord progression of this song is almost like Numb. I am not impressed and hope the rest of the album can makeup for this

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Richard Enahobo
05-04-2007

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Well they're trying to not be nu-metal anymore now that nu-metal isn't popular anymore.

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tears_of_the_night
05-05-2007

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This song means a lot to me, I have been through a lot and It is easy to relate to this song....

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