"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." "With hands held high to skies so blue, the ocean opens up to swallow you." Truest quotes in LP history
***** so my son, father,brothers wer poor fuck u my son died in my fucking hands he was 25 i stand hear knowing that i will never see them again till my time comes... WE ARNT POOR WE FIGHT FOR YOUR ASS BECAUSE U CANT!
soldier boy till the end Dude, he means that the "rich", as in men with hundreds upon thousands of dollars in their bank account and do nothing with it, refuse to fight for what is right. I understand, and , trust me, we are not poor, we are wealthy, but in other ways. Ways most men cannot understand. Good luck, and god be with you. I pray that you are safe.
[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda] Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something Lightweights step it aside when we come in Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping People on the street, they panic and start running Words on loose-leaf sheet complete coming I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme I'm dumping Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping Fcuk that, I wanna see some fists pumping Risk something, take back what's yours Say something that you know they might attack you for 'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for Like this war's really just a different brand of war Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor Like they understand you in the back of the jet When you can't put gas in your tank These fcukers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check Asking you to have compassion and have some respect For a leader so nervous in an obvious way Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day In the living room laughing, like, "What did he say?" [Refrain] Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen [Verse 2: Mike Shinoda] In my living room watching, but I am not laughing 'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen The world is cold, the bold men take action Have to react or get blown into fractions Ten years old, something to see Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep Taken and bound and found later under a tree I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me Do you see the soldiers that are out, today? They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray But a bomb blew the mosque up, yesterday There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads Inside your market, your shops, your clothes My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know But enough pride inside not to let that show My brother had a book he would hold with pride A little red cover with a broken spine On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die" Meanwhile, the leader just talks away Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay The rest of the world watching, at the end of the day Both scared and angry, like, "What did he say?" [Refrain] Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen [Chorus: Mike Shinoda] With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen) As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen) With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen) As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen) With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen) As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen) With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen) As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen) With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen) As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen) With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen) As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
This song was written and released 15 years ago. It was an entirely different war, in a different region of the world, of a different generation. And wouldn't you know it. It still fits. "Mostly scared and angry like, 'what did he say?'".
Our hands are held high for you, Chester. You were a huge influence that helped me get through growing up and gave me a voice to what I was going through. Thank you. Thank you for everything.
La canción no es tan buena como para tener más vistas, lo digo con objetividad, todos coincidimos con ell mensaje de la canción y la intención está, pero la canción fue poco creativa, además casi todas las canciones exitosas de Linkin Park las compuso Mike
"It's ironic, at times like this you pray But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday" I don't know what it is about this specific line, but it really gets to me. I hope for a day where this song is irrelevant.
@@iyeriyer548 irrelevant as in, there will be no wars, no bombings. That days this song will become irrelevant as there will be peace :) hope i could clear up the confusion
These guys were so ahead of their time in terms of interpretive lyrics. They could hit so many subjects and I feel like that's part of what made Linkin Park so strong.
This song came up in my playlist in the car yesterday, and it hit so hard. It's frustrating and saddening how relevant this is, once again, even 15 years later. I really slept on Minutes to Midnight when it originally came out, because I was a silly teen who couldn't deal with the fact that their favorite band changed their style and evolved, but listening to it now, I really have so much respect for this album. The way political messages were weaved into the songs, without being too obvious, but still so poignant. Stepping away from the teenage angst to open the music up to problems of a more international scale. While still keeping the tone of Linkin Park, while still remaining approachable and not too 'wannabe deep'. So, 15 years late with this, but kudos to a great album, that unfortunately has stayed way too relevant throughout the years.
My favorite song of all time.. "My brother had a book he would hold with pride, a little red cover with a broken spine, on the back he hand wrote a quote inside, when the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
Being born the year Hybrid Theory came out, I never really got into LP that much. I listened in middle school and liked them, and their music literally kept me alive, but I fell off the LP train after awhile. Fast forward 4 years. I had stopped listening to LP, and was expanding my horizons again. Those years were full Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, and Thousand Foot Krutch. Red, Evanescence. I listened to literally everything. Move a little bit forward to July of 2017. I was just working on a book I'm writing. I open a new tab in Microsoft Edge (because I was too lazy to download Chrome), and I see the horrible news. I literally dropped everything and just stopped, and reflected on my life and how Chester affected it for the better 4 years prior. The last LP song I had heard was Heavy, and that was months prior to his death since I don't listen to the radio. I couldn't listen to Linkin Park without crying for the first couple days. Now here I am, on a Linkin Park marathon, just listening to the music again, and remembering. Remembering those times I would just go to my room and just listen to the music. Remembering when I had figured out how I would die, and then I was listening to Chester's voice and decided to give life another chance with LP in the background. Then high school happened. I had a clean slate with these people. I gained hope. After awhile, LP left the soundtrack of my life, replaced by similar (but not quite the same) bands. Now, I just listen to the music and see how most of these songs were cries for help, similar to my cries, but society put them off as "emo" and ridiculed the band. Nobody heard, even among the fanbase. We were all deaf the cries. Depression is real, and moments like these help us to realize that.
"I was listening to Chester's voice and decided to give life another chance with LP in the background. " - that sounds like my life, bro. I borned at 2000 too. In school I knew LP as "InThe End" and "Numb", nothing more. In the 2000's In Russia we didn't listen to radio, so I didn't have any source to hear new Linkin Park songs.But those two songs meant a lot to me. In July 2017 I didn't matter to the news about Chester because didn't know him as a person. But know, four years later, his story caught on me. I cried for whole month when I first read about his life. I regret not being interested in LP before...
In a world that capitalize from your self-resentment, loving yourself can really be a revolutionary thing to do. Hope Chester had found his peace. I have depression too. Hope whoever reads this and I can both find the strength to continue living
Its crazy to see all of Linkin Parks mainstream songs flooded with Chester memorials, but a master piece like this, there isnt? Where are the true fans.. RIP Chester.. you will deeply be missed man.
To be frank though, Minutes To Midnight wasn't exactly their most well received effort. I will admit it's probably my favorite from them, but mostly for nostalgic reasons.
Listen closely. Not sure if he's on the gang vocals when they sing "Amen", but you can actually hear him sing along with Mike "With hands held high into a sky so blue as the ocean opens up to swallow you". I'm not hundred percent sure and don't have anything to back this up, but I'm pretty sure it's him on the backing vocal Edit: Did some research and the gang vocal singing "Amen" was actually all six members, including Chester.
“And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day both scared an angry like what did he say” This quote now makes me think of our “leader” now and the mistakes he made throughout his presidency
Trump is a great leader. Most that hate him hate him because of information they hear from others and never validate themselves. Because having a brain of your own in 2020 isn't trendy enough to put effort into learning things before shitting all over someone you don't even know lmao.
I hated this album when it first came out. When I think of what LP are producing now, this is pure art with such a deep and meaningful message and I appreciate it even more now with everything happening in the world. Mike was always so good at verbalising passion and pain.
I had that same feeling for waiting for the end song, don't know why, just didn't get that vibe I guess.. Couple years went by and only now I realize it was never about the song, it was me who was at fault. The song is fucking amazing!
This song was so important to my transition back to civilian life from the military... Chester helped save my life with this song. I’m sorry I couldn’t return the favor. Thank you forever.
Yes, he sings in the chorus. And he had an even bigger singing role live, where it would be him singing the chorus alone and the last bit with Mike. Not to mention this song wouldn't have even been out there without Linkin Park / Chester, so it's kind of irrelevant that he's not doing the main verses.
censor everything Although Genious says that Mike does that part, I think that both Mike and Chester did that... Glad to know that you came back and managed to recover yourself...
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing your story. I’m listening and I have so much respect for you as well. Thank you tremendously for Your Service. And I also want to give a huge shoutout to all of Your Brothers and Sisters ETC! and all Of My Brothers and Sisters and Everyone’s Family Familiá and Friends, ETC! who are still serving/in the reserves/those who made it home safely/those who unfortunately did not🙏🏼 and every single other category/every branch/ETC! “NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND” - FFDP!
"I'm sick of being treated like I had before, like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for" I stand for accepting EVERYTHING that doesn't hurt anyone
@@limo4630 because if you stand for something that looks like it doesn’t hurt anyone, you’ll find that those mistakes are often the most hurtful of all. There is difference between letting something be broken but functional, and ‘fixing it’ and hurting countless along the way.
@@limo4630 I’m projecting. I apologize. Though it is important to make the distinction between short term good and long term bad vs short term bad and long term good. Every decision we make, every thing we stand up for or against will have an impact well into the future.
This definitely applies to what's happening right now. Especially when he says "meanwhile, the leader just talks away, stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay."
2013, Wrote a paper on this song for CSUF POSC 200. The assignment was to pick a song, submit it to the class, and write a paper on it. This was the one the teacher chose to play for the entire class, and I received a 100% on the paper. One of my favorite moments, because I just wanted to listen to the song haha.
Anyone else hear to remember Chester Bennington? Hands down, LP's best album ever. This music got me through so many tough times in my younger days, I just wished it could've helped you in your moment of absolute darkness, Chester. R.I.P, man. We'll miss you.
This is the song I thought of after watching all these videos about Ukraine and Russia.. It's so true when he says "when the rich wage war its the poor who die"
I think this is one of the most underappreciated, underrated Linkin Park songs. For some reason it's the first one I wanted to look up when I heard the news today. RIP Chester.
A week of being mad at the world, not knowing if we have a future. I just randomly started singing this song today. Can't believe how fitting this song is right now. Best of luck Ukraine and Russian people. The whole world is with you and we can see how strong you are. Keep your spirits up. We're all soldiers in this comment section.
Yo dude I’m really glad to read these words here. Especially in online comment sections people tend to forget the humanity. Many are so caught up in politics or whatever that they forget that young Russian men are people too and partially forced to be canonfother on the frontlines… couldn’t have worded it better.
I'm really glad to have seen this comment under this song, looked it up specifically from the whole album because it hit close to home and I had to share it with a friend of mine, currently in Russia and things are only getting worse here too. The leader is old, demented, tyrannical and a dictator, going lower and lower in the slippery slope that is militarizing any people eligible to serve, all his priorities are on the war sacrificing the wellbeing of his own people, quality of life going down, prices rising up, all of his previously veiled hatred and violence no longer being concealed, he is just openly showing all of it to the russian public even in television. Minorities are furthermore fucked here, now more than ever. I have hope for the future only because I have the potential to get out of this environment in a near future, but I can't imagine how much hopelessness and suffering the people without my chances are experiencing here. It is heart-wrenching to be part of this awful moment in history, let alone us not even having it as bad as people in Ukraine do. This song makes me very emotional, all of us are so sick at heart for what is going on in both countries.
I read sometime something quite similar but in a completely different context: "young people will die when old men declare war to each other" Idk if it makes much sense since I read it in spanish that one time... but I hope it's understood.
Being here, end of may 2020 and this is still so up to date. What happened in last time in USA is so sad... and some things are hard to believe something like that still happens today
Jackson Dawson Maybe you are right, it's about the perspectives, but anyway a guy with American Eagle profile picture shouldn't feel that much from this song(as far as i know that Eagle represents the warrior side of US)
***** Just because I have an American flag with an eagle on it doesn't mean I have sympathy.. Just because I support my country automatically makes me unsympathetic for other people of another country...
Cameron Howerton There is nothing wrong with supporting your country but the song is about someone living in another country that fight with your country and it doesn't make sense supporting both sides.
I'm so heartbroken... This is one of the first songs I thought of when I heard the news. This song, this message, the rhythm and meaning conveyed throughout is just so important. Rarely have I heard such beauty in describing the act of destruction. I wish that Linkin Park's songs done in this vein got just as much recognition, not out of some sense of fan jealousy, but just because what this song says and what it does is so valuable. Chester, you gave the world a gift. I would have loved to have heard even more.
This song is so underrated, and I'm not really much of a Linkin Park fan. I used to be, so I know all of their songs, no need to recommend any to me, I'm just saying as someone who used to listen to them a lot, this is one of the few songs that holds up, which saddens me that nobody ever talks about this song.
even by the fact that chester had no vocalist part in this song. it is one of those songs, that made linkin park immortalized forever! mike is a very, very good vocalist! he is different compared to chester, but his style is also very, very beatiful and also great to listen to! the best band ever!
A young man came and gave voice to a generation. Pulled many of us out of our darkest places. Gave hope to more people than he could ever know. And stays in many hearts,even though he himself is gone. So it's with arms held high I say Amen, thank you, and rest easy brother. Your always with us wherever we go. R.I.P. Chester.
When this album released, 91x streamed it. I remember I took a cassette tape and recorded the entire thing. I fell in love, I'm so sad that Chester is gone. Linkin Park if it continues, it will never be the same
Four years ago, when the port explosion took place in Beirut, I listened to this song for the very first time. Ever since, it has become my comfort zone whenever the images of this country I used to call home would come to mind. It brings me peace, as ironic as it sounds.
I wish they did a video for this song. I came up with an idea for one too. it's be Mike at the front rapping in a destroy church because of war and jets and machines of war moving around outside and Mike would be the preacher and the amens would be the people he's preaching to and they all in unison say amen
god damn it how i love this song, for 15 years i've listend to linkin park and i always come back to them, sad, happy, exited, under the weather. * AFTER ALL THIS TIME? - ALWAYS*!!!!
this is the song i was listening to when i got the news that Chester passed. I was driving down I-95 and broke down in tears. had to call my friend that showed me LP in the first place all those years ago. hope yall are okay! gotta stay strong
Most perfect song to represent how low we’ve gotten as human beings ,yet we still hold on to hope after all the tragedies 2017 brought us..rest in peace Chester
okay. its been a year and a half. this has been one of my favorite linkin park songs for as long as i can remember. i still can't listen to it without crying. i think a lot of us really took chester (and linkin park as a whole) for granted. another thing about this song that actually hurts is that, despite being written 12 years ago, it's still completely relevant. you'd think the world would've changed, at least a little bit, by now. but nope.
It’s almost Thanksgiving. I’m thinking of those who are dealing with a loss, whether from the war or for health reasons or the person is still alive but decided that they want nothing to do with their own family. This song is about sacrifice. This song seems to be an aural representation of the sudden realization... that those fortunate enough to still have loved ones... should be thankful for them and tell them that while there’s still a chance. Haunting.
Mike will always be one of my favorite rappers. His voice and gripping lyrics are out of this world. I´m 23 years old now, and I´ve been listening to Linkin Park since I was 7 years old. They will forever be in my heart. Love from Sweden.
I grew up with Linkin Park. Minutes to Midnight was the first album I ever picked out for myself when I was 9 years old. Now I have a young daughter and newborn son and I play their songs for them. It has a feeling of nostalgia, and I know that in 10-15 years these times will be nostalgic as well.
Lyrics Turn my mic up louder I got to say something Lightweights stepping aside, When we come in Feel it in your chest The syllables get pumping People on the street They panic and start running Words on loose leaf Sheet complete coming I jump on my mind I summon the rhyme I'm dumping Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in Sick of the dark ways We march to the drumming Jump when they tell us They want to see jumping Fuck that, I want to See some fist pumping Risk something Take back what's yours Say something that you know They might attack you for 'Cause I'm sick of being treated Like I had before Like it's stupid standing for What I'm standing for Like this war is really just A different brand of war Like it doesn't cater the rich And an abandon the poor Like they understand you In the back of the jet When you can't put gas in your tank These fuckers are laughing their way To the bank and cashing their check Asking you to have compassion and to have some respect For a leader so nervous In an obvious way Stuttering and mumbling For nightly news to replay And the rest of the world Watching at the end of the day In the living room laughing Like what did he say? Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen In my living room watching But I am not laughing 'Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen The world is cold The bold men take action Have to react Or get blown into fractions Ten years old is something to see Another kid my age drugged under a jeep Taken and bound and found later under a tree I wonder if he thought the "next one could be me" Do you see? The soldiers they're out today That brush the dust from bulletproof vests away It's ironic At times like this you pray But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads Inside your markets, your shops, your clothes My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know But enough pride inside not to let that show My brother had a book he would hold with pride A little red cover with a broken spine In the back he hand wrote a quote inside When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die Meanwhile, the leader just talks away Stuttering and mumbling For nightly news to replay And the rest of the world Watching at the end of the day Both scared and angry Like what did he say? Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen With hands held high Into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up To swallow you With hands held high Into a sky so blue The ocean opens up To swallow you. With hands held high Into a sky so blue The ocean opens up To swallow you. With hands held high Into a sky so blue The ocean opens up To swallow you. With hands held high Into a sky so blue The ocean opens up To swallow you. With hands held high Into a sky so blue The ocean opens up To swallow you
I feel as if history is one button away from relapsing on the high of toxic gases and homicide. This song puts all of the doubt and fear I have and turns it into courage and gratitude. I wish music was still this pure
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"With hands held high to skies so blue, the ocean opens up to swallow you."
Truest quotes in LP history
The first one was actually said by a French philosopher
Sam Lifebolt the Joltcario How do you interpretate the second quote? Just curious :)
BottomFragger Whereas I see it slightly differently as someone who cares about justice drowning in the growing ocean of evil in the world
Sam Lifebolt the Depressed Joltcario i
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor that die." is Jean Paul Sartre
"Mike Shinoda the best songwriter ever " Chester Bennington
@@LIFEWITHJENNY4 ?????? Who is linkin????
@@LIFEWITHJENNY4 what? This is Linkin Park if thats what you mean? Who is linkin?
@@STARMAN-it8zb linkin Deez nuts
Chester have said it? Where can i read?
@@Killtrasher he said that shinoda is the greatest songwriter of our generation in a video - Linkin Park with Ken Jeong
Shinoda is so underrated.
agreed
Whether it's for Linkin Park or Fort Minor, he's always so smart and talented
yes thats true
"I'm awfully underrated but came here to correct it"
+Demolition Mike He just wanted people to try his new ketchup recipe...
It’s crazy how every time the talk of war starts, I come back to this song. And it’s fits the situation one way or another every single time.
glad i'm not the only one
Facts
God bless Ukraine 🇺🇦
Really
Not alone
I cant believe this literally word per word makes sense right now in every country
right
it is enraging that this is more relevant today than it was back then
Honestly, I was just singing this and broke down into tears a bit. It's quite upsetting that very little progress seems to be made since then.
True
Mostly in America though. We’re the one acting like a warring empire.
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die".
sad, but that's one of the most true quotes I've ever heard
***** so my son, father,brothers wer poor fuck u my son died in my fucking hands he was 25 i stand hear knowing that i will never see them again till my time comes... WE ARNT POOR WE FIGHT FOR YOUR ASS BECAUSE U CANT!
***** The truth cometh, and with it shalt come pain and regret.
soldier boy till the end Dude, he means that the "rich", as in men with hundreds upon thousands of dollars in their bank account and do nothing with it, refuse to fight for what is right. I understand, and , trust me, we are not poor, we are wealthy, but in other ways. Ways most men cannot understand. Good luck, and god be with you. I pray that you are safe.
treyton nugent thanks man
I fear that this song will forever be relevant to the day.
Maitiu Jarrett you should fear yourself more if thats what scares you. This song is an answer not a question.
Maitiu Jarrett have balls and cry sometimes.
you aren't wrong money has ruined life
+mrzmaster2
Ha, money saved countless more lives while increasing the quality of life for just about everyone.
+Davested
Oh, yeah? Give me an example.
[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something
Lightweights step it aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping
People on the street, they panic and start running
Words on loose-leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme I'm dumping
Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fcuk that, I wanna see some fists pumping
Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for
'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These fcukers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In the living room laughing, like, "What did he say?"
[Refrain]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda]
In my living room watching, but I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
The world is cold, the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old, something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers that are out, today?
They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up, yesterday
There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die"
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
The rest of the world watching, at the end of the day
Both scared and angry, like, "What did he say?"
[Refrain]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
[Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
Hey thanks man!
Thanks
Thank you
Thank you!
Thanks man
This song was written and released 15 years ago. It was an entirely different war, in a different region of the world, of a different generation. And wouldn't you know it. It still fits. "Mostly scared and angry like, 'what did he say?'".
I can ensure that this is the most underrated LP song. It doesn't get the attention it deserves. Masterpiece of a track
its sad how this song reflects today's society with everything that's going on
true
I was just about to say...
scary how relevant this song has been and will somehow always be.
TRUUUUUUUUUMP
+Murderous King Boo fuck trump
Geovonie Marsili I blame him for everything
Our hands are held high for you, Chester. You were a huge influence that helped me get through growing up and gave me a voice to what I was going through.
Thank you. Thank you for everything.
Its a shame isn't it.
meagatron713 this has nothing to with Chester smh
♡♡♡♡♡
I've made a new discord specifically for Chester I want to get as many people in as we can to show are love for Chester
Sweeping Sweeper lol
i grew up with Linkin Park, and i grew because of them.
i thanked my father for keep playing Linkin Park's Meteora and Minute To Midnight Album when i was a Toddler, now i grew up with great Childhood ;-;
Same here man
Me too Sunrays, Linkin Park fans 4life.
Well said, my friend. I too grew up listening to them. Well, that and N'Sync. Lol.
👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
Why does this song have only 3M views? Why do people forget that Mike Shinoda is as integral to LP as Chester was? The most underrated rapper!
La canción no es tan buena como para tener más vistas, lo digo con objetividad, todos coincidimos con ell mensaje de la canción y la intención está, pero la canción fue poco creativa, además casi todas las canciones exitosas de Linkin Park las compuso Mike
I DON'T FORGET! ❤🔥
"It's ironic, at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday"
I don't know what it is about this specific line, but it really gets to me. I hope for a day where this song is irrelevant.
@@iyeriyer548 irrelevant as in, there will be no wars, no bombings. That days this song will become irrelevant as there will be peace :) hope i could clear up the confusion
@@kryoliterekan9311 ohh but that day will never come :)
@@iyeriyer548 sad but at this point.....its true......still one can dream :)
@@iyeriyer548 The hope is that one day this'll just be a great song and not also a horrifying reflection of life.
@@ShenDoodles :)
"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die." When I first heard that I was like Damn that's so true!!!
A reference to Mao Tse-Tung's 'Little Red Book'
:,( R.I.P. Chester
CarsLatino his music is immoral!
gautam govilkar immoral?
Immoral?
Immoral?
Immoral?
is normal to cry with this song?
Yes, i cry...
i cri evry tiem
.:Miguel.A.C:. yup
indeed
Liek If u cri evritim
These guys were so ahead of their time in terms of interpretive lyrics. They could hit so many subjects and I feel like that's part of what made Linkin Park so strong.
This song came up in my playlist in the car yesterday, and it hit so hard. It's frustrating and saddening how relevant this is, once again, even 15 years later. I really slept on Minutes to Midnight when it originally came out, because I was a silly teen who couldn't deal with the fact that their favorite band changed their style and evolved, but listening to it now, I really have so much respect for this album. The way political messages were weaved into the songs, without being too obvious, but still so poignant. Stepping away from the teenage angst to open the music up to problems of a more international scale. While still keeping the tone of Linkin Park, while still remaining approachable and not too 'wannabe deep'. So, 15 years late with this, but kudos to a great album, that unfortunately has stayed way too relevant throughout the years.
I'll miss you Chester Bennington :(
Walote me too
Walote I agree with you
We all do, but let’s let him live on forever in his songs and memories
Mike Shinoda is an amazing human being
My favorite song of all time.. "My brother had a book he would hold with pride, a little red cover with a broken spine, on the back he hand wrote a quote inside, when the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
the book is quotations by mao and no one can convince me otherwise
Definitely Mao
@@RoySmeding That quote is actually Jean-Paul Sartre.
Whenever your ears get infected by shitty meaningless songs out there, this masterpiece acts as a sanitizer.
Real talk 👍.
Lmao
Highly Agreed
So damn true bro !!!!
@@mdabdullah4379 🙌🏼
Very relevant in these times :/
Its scary to be fair
Linkin park and runescape? We had similar childhoods
@@malagaca9087 is cancer fake ?
Still relevant a year later
@@nextbigthing2917 stupid comment from i believe low iq person?
Lyrics wise, the best song ever made. And just in general as well, Shinodas lyrics are some of the most hard hitting you'll ever listen to.
so true
RIP Chester Bennington, this song helped me through some tough times and I am forever grateful
Being born the year Hybrid Theory came out, I never really got into LP that much. I listened in middle school and liked them, and their music literally kept me alive, but I fell off the LP train after awhile. Fast forward 4 years. I had stopped listening to LP, and was expanding my horizons again. Those years were full Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, and Thousand Foot Krutch. Red, Evanescence. I listened to literally everything. Move a little bit forward to July of 2017. I was just working on a book I'm writing. I open a new tab in Microsoft Edge (because I was too lazy to download Chrome), and I see the horrible news. I literally dropped everything and just stopped, and reflected on my life and how Chester affected it for the better 4 years prior. The last LP song I had heard was Heavy, and that was months prior to his death since I don't listen to the radio. I couldn't listen to Linkin Park without crying for the first couple days. Now here I am, on a Linkin Park marathon, just listening to the music again, and remembering. Remembering those times I would just go to my room and just listen to the music. Remembering when I had figured out how I would die, and then I was listening to Chester's voice and decided to give life another chance with LP in the background. Then high school happened. I had a clean slate with these people. I gained hope. After awhile, LP left the soundtrack of my life, replaced by similar (but not quite the same) bands. Now, I just listen to the music and see how most of these songs were cries for help, similar to my cries, but society put them off as "emo" and ridiculed the band. Nobody heard, even among the fanbase. We were all deaf the cries. Depression is real, and moments like these help us to realize that.
Nobody ever claimed linkin park was emo tf
@U Plus a lot of people call it emo actually
@@PROJECTJoza100 fr so many non fans call any type of rock emo lol
@@Succadeez For those people, any song with no girls in the thumbnail is trash.
"I was listening to Chester's voice and decided to give life another chance with LP in the background. " - that sounds like my life, bro. I borned at 2000 too. In school I knew LP as "InThe End" and "Numb", nothing more. In the 2000's In Russia we didn't listen to radio, so I didn't have any source to hear new Linkin Park songs.But those two songs meant a lot to me. In July 2017 I didn't matter to the news about Chester because didn't know him as a person. But know, four years later, his story caught on me. I cried for whole month when I first read about his life. I regret not being interested in LP before...
"Say something that you know they might attack you for"
This song is just too damn real...
In a world that capitalize from your self-resentment, loving yourself can really be a revolutionary thing to do. Hope Chester had found his peace. I have depression too. Hope whoever reads this and I can both find the strength to continue living
🙂❤️
❤
This song deserves the klicks Despacito got...
Orodon Kassa OML yess
Orodon Kassa almost all linkin parks songs do
No no, i dont wanna people in the street sing this in front of me
Almost all? All! This deserves ten times more clicks. Maybe then people would see how fucked up things actually are and do something
Orodon Kassa i remember this song on 2010 now i think i should have stole the album from crosswords book store
This song makes me cry 😢
yes sir. so fucking correct it's scary. ..
me too
Why isnt this number 1 yet??
Chester's suicide made me cry.
same
Its crazy to see all of Linkin Parks mainstream songs flooded with Chester memorials, but a master piece like this, there isnt? Where are the true fans.. RIP Chester.. you will deeply be missed man.
To be frank though, Minutes To Midnight wasn't exactly their most well received effort. I will admit it's probably my favorite from them, but mostly for nostalgic reasons.
I love all of Linkin Park's songs and im proud to say I know most of their songs
❤Rip Chester❤.😢😢
imTeezyy Dead By Sunrise,Grey Daze,and the 5 Track High Rise by STP got the Same
Probably because Chester isn't in this song so it's kinda pointless and irrelevant, even if it's LP.
Listen closely. Not sure if he's on the gang vocals when they sing "Amen", but you can actually hear him sing along with Mike "With hands held high into a sky so blue as the ocean opens up to swallow you". I'm not hundred percent sure and don't have anything to back this up, but I'm pretty sure it's him on the backing vocal
Edit: Did some research and the gang vocal singing "Amen" was actually all six members, including Chester.
"And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day, in their living room laughing like 'What did he say?'"
Very true words today
Amen
"I'm in my living room watching, but I am not laughing because when it get's tense I know what might happen."
“And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day both scared an angry like what did he say”
This quote now makes me think of our “leader” now and the mistakes he made throughout his presidency
Trump is a great leader. Most that hate him hate him because of information they hear from others and never validate themselves. Because having a brain of your own in 2020 isn't trendy enough to put effort into learning things before shitting all over someone you don't even know lmao.
whats even worse is this song is still gonna apply to biden. i guess in 4 years we get another chance
This song moves me to tears every time. It's so meaningful
Me 2
I hated this album when it first came out. When I think of what LP are producing now, this is pure art with such a deep and meaningful message and I appreciate it even more now with everything happening in the world. Mike was always so good at verbalising passion and pain.
This is the best album IMO
I had that same feeling for waiting for the end song, don't know why, just didn't get that vibe I guess.. Couple years went by and only now I realize it was never about the song, it was me who was at fault. The song is fucking amazing!
to those of you watching this masterpiece in 2016 i salute you
+Ryan Bradford thnx
right back at you...
and you haha
Thanks man
Us TRUE Soldiers need to stand together! 💙👊
Need this tonight. So tragic. R.I.P. Chester. You were an idol to me and made my teenage years.
More relevant today than it ever has been.
This song was so important to my transition back to civilian life from the military... Chester helped save my life with this song. I’m sorry I couldn’t return the favor. Thank you forever.
Chester is not in this song though.
Yes, he sings in the chorus. And he had an even bigger singing role live, where it would be him singing the chorus alone and the last bit with Mike. Not to mention this song wouldn't have even been out there without Linkin Park / Chester, so it's kind of irrelevant that he's not doing the main verses.
@@censoreverything8072 You"re probably right. Hearing it again seems like theres several voices thrown in there.
censor everything Although Genious says that Mike does that part, I think that both Mike and Chester did that...
Glad to know that you came back and managed to recover yourself...
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing your story. I’m listening and I have so much respect for you as well. Thank you tremendously for Your Service. And I also want to give a huge shoutout to all of Your Brothers and Sisters ETC! and all Of My Brothers and Sisters and Everyone’s Family Familiá and Friends, ETC! who are still serving/in the reserves/those who made it home safely/those who unfortunately did not🙏🏼 and every single other category/every branch/ETC! “NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND” - FFDP!
"I'm sick of being treated like I had before, like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for"
I stand for accepting EVERYTHING that doesn't hurt anyone
But that ideology ends up hurting someone.
@@BurdenofTheMighty how?
@@limo4630 because if you stand for something that looks like it doesn’t hurt anyone, you’ll find that those mistakes are often the most hurtful of all. There is difference between letting something be broken but functional, and ‘fixing it’ and hurting countless along the way.
@@BurdenofTheMighty why do you think that it means to "fix people"?
@@limo4630 I’m projecting. I apologize. Though it is important to make the distinction between short term good and long term bad vs short term bad and long term good. Every decision we make, every thing we stand up for or against will have an impact well into the future.
This definitely applies to what's happening right now. Especially when he says "meanwhile, the leader just talks away, stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay."
I'm being honest here, am I the only one who finds this album refreshing?
Yes, rip this+bleed it out off and put them with meteora/hybrid theory and you'd have the good ole days
I fear that this song will forever be relevant to the day
i feel like this song is so underrated and it should be more in the spotlight. especially during these hard times.
Mike is so underrated. He is such a great musician. World must not loose him. 🌹🌷🌺
2013, Wrote a paper on this song for CSUF POSC 200. The assignment was to pick a song, submit it to the class, and write a paper on it. This was the one the teacher chose to play for the entire class, and I received a 100% on the paper. One of my favorite moments, because I just wanted to listen to the song haha.
Wow congratulations 🎉😍
Anyone else hear to remember Chester Bennington? Hands down, LP's best album ever.
This music got me through so many tough times in my younger days, I just wished it could've helped you in your moment of absolute darkness, Chester. R.I.P, man. We'll miss you.
This is the most heart-rending song of Linkin Park. The song almost moved me to tears.
This is the song I thought of after watching all these videos about Ukraine and Russia.. It's so true when he says "when the rich wage war its the poor who die"
I think this is one of the most underappreciated, underrated Linkin Park songs. For some reason it's the first one I wanted to look up when I heard the news today. RIP Chester.
This Song deserves popularity :C
Boy did this song age...
It's beautiful, yet horrifying at the same time
A week of being mad at the world, not knowing if we have a future. I just randomly started singing this song today. Can't believe how fitting this song is right now. Best of luck Ukraine and Russian people. The whole world is with you and we can see how strong you are. Keep your spirits up. We're all soldiers in this comment section.
Wow. I don’t even have the words or emotions to explain how much I agree with your comforting statement here.
We are all weak. It is ironic
Yo dude I’m really glad to read these words here. Especially in online comment sections people tend to forget the humanity. Many are so caught up in politics or whatever that they forget that young Russian men are people too and partially forced to be canonfother on the frontlines… couldn’t have worded it better.
I'm really glad to have seen this comment under this song, looked it up specifically from the whole album because it hit close to home and I had to share it with a friend of mine, currently in Russia and things are only getting worse here too. The leader is old, demented, tyrannical and a dictator, going lower and lower in the slippery slope that is militarizing any people eligible to serve, all his priorities are on the war sacrificing the wellbeing of his own people, quality of life going down, prices rising up, all of his previously veiled hatred and violence no longer being concealed, he is just openly showing all of it to the russian public even in television. Minorities are furthermore fucked here, now more than ever. I have hope for the future only because I have the potential to get out of this environment in a near future, but I can't imagine how much hopelessness and suffering the people without my chances are experiencing here. It is heart-wrenching to be part of this awful moment in history, let alone us not even having it as bad as people in Ukraine do.
This song makes me very emotional, all of us are so sick at heart for what is going on in both countries.
Just thinking of an extreme hypothetical...what if the troops of Ukraine and Russia just stopped fighting and refused to take orders?
"when the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"...
I read sometime something quite similar but in a completely different context: "young people will die when old men declare war to each other" Idk if it makes much sense since I read it in spanish that one time... but I hope it's understood.
"When the rich wage war, its the poor who die"
Being here, end of may 2020 and this is still so up to date. What happened in last time in USA is so sad... and some things are hard to believe something like that still happens today
Who knew it would get worse a year later
Wow this song made me cry.
really, it's pretty much about a kid in iraq talking about american soldiers.
Jackson Dawson Maybe you are right, it's about the perspectives, but anyway a guy with American Eagle profile picture shouldn't feel that much from this song(as far as i know that Eagle represents the warrior side of US)
***** Just because I have an American flag with an eagle on it doesn't mean I have sympathy.. Just because I support my country automatically makes me unsympathetic for other people of another country...
Cameron Howerton There is nothing wrong with supporting your country but the song is about someone living in another country that fight with your country and it doesn't make sense supporting both sides.
me too
Shinoda is so talented! He was 50% of Linkin Park. Underrated!
The world needs to listen to this song.
I'm so heartbroken... This is one of the first songs I thought of when I heard the news. This song, this message, the rhythm and meaning conveyed throughout is just so important. Rarely have I heard such beauty in describing the act of destruction. I wish that Linkin Park's songs done in this vein got just as much recognition, not out of some sense of fan jealousy, but just because what this song says and what it does is so valuable.
Chester, you gave the world a gift. I would have loved to have heard even more.
This song is so underrated, and I'm not really much of a Linkin Park fan. I used to be, so I know all of their songs, no need to recommend any to me, I'm just saying as someone who used to listen to them a lot, this is one of the few songs that holds up, which saddens me that nobody ever talks about this song.
12 years later and still as relevant as it has ever been. This will forever stand the test of time.
This song couldn't be more relevant today.
minutes to midnight is such a unique album
even by the fact that chester had no vocalist part in this song.
it is one of those songs, that made linkin park immortalized forever!
mike is a very, very good vocalist! he is different compared to chester, but his style is also very, very beatiful and also great to listen to!
the best band ever!
09
this song gives me hope LP MIGHT be able to continue
All their voices were blended to sing the "Amen" parts
I feel like this song really applies to today for any side of this horrible time ❤️ thank you Linkin Park
Ahora mas que nunca resuenan estas palabras
Fuerza para el pueblo Venezolano 🇻🇪🔥
Hands held high ✊🏼✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
🎶Into the sky sooo blueeee...🎶
Given what's happened in the past 24 hours, the message in this song is super-fucking important.
Wait until you see a year later
Oh boy.
Well to you too @@drnapalm7605
A young man came and gave voice to a generation. Pulled many of us out of our darkest places. Gave hope to more people than he could ever know. And stays in many hearts,even though he himself is gone. So it's with arms held high I say Amen, thank you, and rest easy brother. Your always with us wherever we go.
R.I.P. Chester.
When this album released, 91x streamed it. I remember I took a cassette tape and recorded the entire thing. I fell in love, I'm so sad that Chester is gone. Linkin Park if it continues, it will never be the same
Bought this CD in 2007, it's eerie how relevant this song is today in 2020
Four years ago, when the port explosion took place in Beirut, I listened to this song for the very first time. Ever since, it has become my comfort zone whenever the images of this country I used to call home would come to mind. It brings me peace, as ironic as it sounds.
This song is just as relevant today, as it will be forever in time. Thank you Mike for this masterpiece!
Mike has so much heart....
I wish they did a video for this song. I came up with an idea for one too. it's be Mike at the front rapping in a destroy church because of war and jets and machines of war moving around outside and Mike would be the preacher and the amens would be the people he's preaching to and they all in unison say amen
I always thought of the "amen"s as the sheep following the leader. Part of the bad things basically.
great idea dude
boynatey44 Its ironic things like this you pray but a bomb blew up a mosque yesterday.
I like this idea....
boynatey44
I would have gone a different direction personally. But this is an incredibly insightful idea.
So many underrated songs of Linkin park!
god damn it how i love this song, for 15 years i've listend to linkin park and i always come back to them, sad, happy, exited, under the weather. * AFTER ALL THIS TIME? - ALWAYS*!!!!
this is the song i was listening to when i got the news that Chester passed. I was driving down I-95 and broke down in tears. had to call my friend that showed me LP in the first place all those years ago. hope yall are okay! gotta stay strong
Most perfect song to represent how low we’ve gotten as human beings ,yet we still hold on to hope after all the tragedies 2017 brought us..rest in peace Chester
Well said
okay. its been a year and a half. this has been one of my favorite linkin park songs for as long as i can remember. i still can't listen to it without crying. i think a lot of us really took chester (and linkin park as a whole) for granted.
another thing about this song that actually hurts is that, despite being written 12 years ago, it's still completely relevant. you'd think the world would've changed, at least a little bit, by now. but nope.
This song hits so different now, it’s really sad
20 years later, and these words still ring true. :(
one of the most underrated rap songs of all times
one of the most underrated songs ever made ...
I'm not a huge Linkin Park fan but this is one of my favorites songs.
This should be the U.S.A. national anthem.. this should be our national anthem now
This song hits different today. No further explanation.
It’s almost Thanksgiving. I’m thinking of those who are dealing with a loss, whether from the war or for health reasons or the person is still alive but decided that they want nothing to do with their own family. This song is about sacrifice. This song seems to be an aural representation of the sudden realization... that those fortunate enough to still have loved ones... should be thankful for them and tell them that while there’s still a chance. Haunting.
Beautiful song :')
Casi siempre te veo en todas las canciones de lp.
Marckos Loza Jeje, soy omnipresente 😏
Esme Bennington xd
Marckos Loza Jeje XD
Mike will always be one of my favorite rappers. His voice and gripping lyrics are out of this world.
I´m 23 years old now, and I´ve been listening to Linkin Park since I was 7 years old. They will forever be in my heart. Love from Sweden.
This song feels ever more relatable in 2020 :'(
Wait until you see 2021.
@@ShayminPunk64 I'm living in it
I grew up with Linkin Park. Minutes to Midnight was the first album I ever picked out for myself when I was 9 years old. Now I have a young daughter and newborn son and I play their songs for them. It has a feeling of nostalgia, and I know that in 10-15 years these times will be nostalgic as well.
12 years later, still gives me chills.
Lyrics
Turn my mic up louder
I got to say something
Lightweights stepping aside,
When we come in
Feel it in your chest
The syllables get pumping
People on the street
They panic and start running
Words on loose leaf
Sheet complete coming
I jump on my mind
I summon the rhyme I'm dumping
Healing the blind
I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways
We march to the drumming
Jump when they tell us
They want to see jumping
Fuck that, I want to
See some fist pumping
Risk something
Take back what's yours
Say something that you know
They might attack you for
'Cause I'm sick of being treated
Like I had before
Like it's stupid standing for
What I'm standing for
Like this war is really just
A different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater the rich
And an abandon the poor
Like they understand you
In the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These fuckers are laughing their way
To the bank and cashing their check
Asking you to have compassion and to have some respect
For a leader so nervous
In an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling
For nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world
Watching at the end of the day
In the living room laughing
Like what did he say?
Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen
In my living room watching
But I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense
I know what might happen
The world is cold
The bold men take action
Have to react
Or get blown into fractions
Ten years old is something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he thought the "next one could be me"
Do you see?
The soldiers they're out today
That brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
It's ironic
At times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your markets, your shops, your clothes
My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
In the back he hand wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling
For nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world
Watching at the end of the day
Both scared and angry
Like what did he say?
Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen
With hands held high
Into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up
To swallow you
With hands held high
Into a sky so blue
The ocean opens up
To swallow you.
With hands held high
Into a sky so blue
The ocean opens up
To swallow you.
With hands held high
Into a sky so blue
The ocean opens up
To swallow you.
With hands held high
Into a sky so blue
The ocean opens up
To swallow you.
With hands held high
Into a sky so blue
The ocean opens up
To swallow you
It happened. The rich waged a war, and the poor are dying 😔
I'm so glad I bought this album its the explicit version
I feel as if history is one button away from relapsing on the high of toxic gases and homicide.
This song puts all of the doubt and fear I have and turns it into courage and gratitude. I wish music was still this pure
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