It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away

It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but you didn't even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me
Will eventually be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To remind myself of a time when
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end
You kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter



Lyrics submitted by csreech

Track duration: 03:38

"In the End" as written by Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Robert G. Bourdon, Chester Charles Bennington, Joseph Hahn

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:I think this version is better than the album one. It's more poetic.
    Flag LuckyStar123on April 13, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I like the lyrics of this version better than the final, but I think I prefer the final version overall.anyway, the meaning is same as the final version:no matter how live your life, no matter how many times you will succeed or fail, in the end you will die and none of it will be important anymore.
    Flag ScaryGirl666on August 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i never heard of the techno remix before but i have heard this version and its really good and well to me i think this song means that someone went as far as they could but when they got to the end it didnt matter cause im guessing no one else cared...thats what i think
    Flag LinkinParkfan14on July 19, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:This song is alright.....but the techno remix is waaaaaay better
    Flag funnygunnyproon September 06, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:luv it i just love this song
    Flag st.jimmy_greendayon March 26, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:so people can stop cryin that they cant find it...here it is

    megaupload.com/
    Flag shadow341on September 23, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:i think this song is about a kid with problems. a familey mewmber fights for him, and saves him, mentally, not psycally ( Held back from the battles they fought for me)
    so the kid puts his trust in him (I've put my trust in you
    Pushed as far as I can go) ut afterwards this familey/friend shows his true self (They're dealing you in to determine your end
    And sending you back again to the places you've been
    And bending your will till it breaks you within), and yet this familey/friend still wants this kid to fullfil their dreams because they know this kid is special (With the twilight through the skylight
    And the highlight's on a frame of steel
    See the brightness of your likeness). soon after the kid relizes, this is all just an illusion and these family/friends are fake and dont care and that this isnt wat its soppoused to be (I've looked down the line and what's there is not what ought to be
    ...As I write this on a pad with the way I feel
    Hear screaming in my dreaming
    As it's seeming that you played your part
    Like your heartless take apart this in the darkness)
    now the kid becomes less ignorant and knows wats going around him, and everythings beuing destroyed (I get no break, fakes and snakes quickly lead to mistakes
    And as the tightrope within slowly starts to thin)
    and through all the hard work or debt this kid owes, and all the tourturre hes gette=ing, he nows "in the end it doesnt matter).
    Flag livesunderfireon July 27, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:you can find demos here:

    lpeffect.com/
    Flag Ben2k9on January 30, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:I just love this song! The lyrics in here are so beautiful and so surreal. Reminds me of some kind of surreal fantasy stuff.
    Flag Froggie Kidon January 21, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:hey- ive seen references to robengel.com but from two years ago- that sight still around- i go to it now and i get a search engine
    Flag N943DJon December 07, 2004   Link

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