Flindtbjerg July 13th, 2005 05:00PM  

Someone in the request section thought it was about rape. I think that's a little too specific. The thing with Linkin Park songs, is that the lyrics can apply to almost any situation of the kind the lyrics are about. This song is a perfect example of that. Now, on the rape subject, if we are to put the lyrics in the context of rape, then the chorus can be interpreted as a rape vic's story, and then the pre-chorus as the perp's story, so I don't think it fits that subject. However, I think that the lyrics basically are about a person (note: any person in any situation) that regrets the past (the verses), and the message is that often the easy way out of problems is to run away from them(choruses). I'm not sure if the singer was trying to tell people to do that when he wrote that, I do think that this is just a story of a person that ran away.

Well, I'm going into all directions here, and the reason is, you can't pin these lyrics down to any one thing.

Just listen to the song, and you'll figure out your own interpretation, I think the vocalists intended for that.

Wraith August 17th, 2005 11:05PM  

It's about a person who, after the one they loved leaves, realizes what they did to make them leave and can't get them back.

anonymous September 11th, 2005 10:31PM  

I think this song, as many say, is about a person being disgusted with his past. He thinks the only way out could be to die, leaving behind a lifeless body. He still wants to take his mistakes to the grave because he doesn't want them to continue on Earth. He has tried to change. He has done everything in his power to undo his mistakes, so he thinks it's the only solution. His mistakes have left bruises on him which are so deep that they'll never go away. He is afraid to face all the consequences alone.

anonymous December 29th, 2005 11:00AM  

C'mon guys its obvious! Chester wrote this song about someone who has a lot of problems to deal with. The problems just kept building up and building up and he just didn't have the strength. He said he could try extra hard to fix whatever's wrong, but it's so much easier to run from everything.

Chemist January 2nd, 2006 02:42PM  

Linkin Park's lyrics are always very blunt. What the lyrics are is what they mean. In this case they're singing about having so many problems and finding it easier to run than to face them. But also haveing regret about these problems.
Rape as stated in some of your imterpretations, can indeed fit into these lyrics, but so can a number of other things. Just think about it like that.

anonymous January 24th, 2006 12:29AM  

Well my interpretation of this song is simply that it tells the story of those who hurt others and the ones that they hurt. When they sing the "If" section before the chorus, its clearly someone feeling deep regret over what they have done. And then the rest of the song's lyrics concentrate more on the person who is feeling this pain is afraid to confront their problem. The specific things that come to mind when hearing this song though are rape and parental abuse. Drugs, leaving a loved one, and all that may have something to do with it, but I feel this is much more of a physical pain that someone inflicts on another.

anonymous January 29th, 2006 03:48PM  

This song is about him on drugs, he says "replacing this place with something numb", he talks about regrets, he emplies that he's sad, depressed really, and that he's on some type of drug to escape what he's done.

anonymous May 21st, 2006 02:58PM  

I think this song is about overcoming struggles. Sure, it's "easier to run", but that doesn't solve problems, it just makes them go away for a while. Chester writes songs that he relates to, but makes them flexible so other people can relate to them.

MINUTES2MIDNIGHT July 11th, 2007 11:17AM  

Hey guys.....
This song lyrics clearly tells that, its very easy to refrain from a problem (any kind of) in place of face the problem.....if you wannna try to face the same it will be so difficult. Everyone wants to change their past in some respect if and if there are any reson which is causing deep wound now......so they wanna go back to the same .......and try to remove the reason if they are able to.....

anonymous July 15th, 2007 05:15PM  

This song can be about a lot of things but I think a big part is that they've done something wrong in life and they want to take it back but they don't think they are strong enough so they just run.

DeXault October 21st, 2007 10:14PM  

The song is saying its Easier to Run, then to face things head on, I don't belive in it but I agree with it.

MINUTES2MIDNIGHT January 28th, 2008 08:36AM  

The words are coming from a person who lost hiss/her loved ones. It's all about the feeling deep inside from the heart when someone is going through the phase of loneliness. We can see from the lines

I never knew what it worth like to be alone on valentines day/you feel nothing is remaining on behalf of your happiness/you're all special moments happiness gone with that special person

MINUTES2MIDNIGHT January 28th, 2008 08:44AM  

As I believe this song is depicting the feelings of a girl trapped somewhere (mayb e a prostitute) She is not getting the way out. The situation is like hell, she knows whatever she is doing is against her soul but she don't have any other option except this. The wounds she is getting are something which is incurable as she is feeling. She is in confused state of mind. The lines are

crawling in my skin/these wounds they will not heal/fear is how I fall/confusing what is real

anonymous May 27th, 2008 02:42PM  

In the chorus it talk about something that happens and he prefers to run away to replace than whit something unreal or just go and not face that alone

Then it says that someone found out that past and maybe told it to everybody something he had keep locked up inside and tried not to remember. It's like having a little movie in his head remembering everyday that thing so bad that happened before.

Then the raper says that
If he knew how to do or be all this things he would but he doesn't find the way to do that.

Chester then says that he remember something really bad in his past and brought back memories of his past that he wishes not to have or disappear in the dust.Then he says that if he let go of the past so that he would not remember or is it better to die so that it would not more past and no suffering or making other suffer.

Or just trying to put it aside or forget that he needs help as well just thinking he doesn't feel misplaced (in his childhood he was adopted) And doing all this is simpler that a simple change.And letting go of the past just by running away from it it is easier.

Old_Solder May 31st, 2008 12:17AM  

Chester was sexually abused as a child. This song strikes me as Chester singing as himself and Mike rapping "in character", playing the part of the abuser as if he regretted everything. It could also be interpreted as Chester wondering if he did anything wrong to bring it upon himself.

I lived with a person who had been sexually abused. It affected every part of her life and relationships with others. She often felt that she was a bad person herself.

"Something has been taken
From deep inside of me"

That's innocence. Something dear to him has been destroyed and he can never get it back.

"Wounds so deep they never show
They never go away
Like moving pictures in my head
For years and years they've played."

My partner was haunted by what was done to her but in order to keep living her life kept burying her pain and not letting it show. That is also a form of running.

"Sometimes I remember
The darkness of my past
Bringing back these memories
I wish I didn't have"

Self-explanatory.

"Sometimes I think of letting go
And never looking back
And never moving forward so
There'd never be a past"

Believe me, when something like this happens to you, it doesn't just affect how you view your past. It makes you not want to commit to anything permanently in your present and future. That's part of the reason why my partner and I are no longer together. She tried to commit to me for seven years, but it involved moving too far forward too fast and it meant the possibility of being hurt again.

"Just washing it aside
All of this helplessness inside
Pretending I don't feel misplaced
It's so much simpler than change"

If Chester is anything like my former partner, he's saying here that simply pretending nothing bothers him and presenting a bold front to the world, because the alternative is to face what happened.

anonymous August 14th, 2008 06:24PM  

I think this songs about someone whos had some bad shit happen in there life,
and just wants to get away from it all,
like many of Linkin Park's songs, they apply more to emotions then to reference
(by this I mean its how you feel not whats happened)
Linkin Park's lyrics are beautiful in this song and make a lot of sense to a person like me, who's fucked up a lot, and had a lot of fucked up shit happen, its just about wanting to escape the past.

anonymous March 2nd, 2009 01:30PM  

this song, along with many other linkin park songs, are about basically anything that you can immagine it to be about...if its rape, then its rape. its about any problem that anyones ever had and how the easiest way is just to run away from it all. i really like this song because it makes me think about what im doing, my situation. hes trying to say that whwat is easy might not always be whats right.

anonymous May 29th, 2009 10:14PM  

I think it's about a person who tries to solve his problems by hiding them and wants to fix what has happened but can't because he doesn't have the strength to go through what happened again

anonymous October 28th, 2009 02:38AM  

People always do mistakes in the past. but sometimes big big mistakes in the past can't be forgoten.Because those mistakes becomes a painful memorie. Having such kinda feeling you can do 2 th ings. runaway just to forget those memories and if you don't try to forget and Alwas feel pain then you will become so numb. There is no good solution given by linkin park. It is known that none of this can help you. The song itself is confused and tryin to find out a solution. and expresing his feeling. (it is my own way of thinking.my email add is horsetig@yahoo.com )