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Linkin Park - Figure 0.9 Song Meanings

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Lyrics:
Nothing ever stops all these thoughts
And the pain attached to them
Sometimes I wonder why this is happening
It's like nothing I can do See the rest of these lyrics

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anonymous January 26th, 2007 01:52AM  
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This song is quite simple to figure it out if you think of your childhood. Growing up there's always these kids who bully, and look at those bullies, and most of them were bullies. If your bullied when your younger, sometimes you'll grow up to be a bully yourself, and this song is the perfect example of that.

"Nothing ever stops all these thoughts
And the pain attached to them
Sometimes I wonder why this is happening"

This part starts to describe that something painful has happened to him.

"It's like nothing I can do
Will distract me when
I think of how I shot myself in the back again"

Somehow he went against something he believed against.


"'Cause from the infinite words I could say
Put all the pain you gave to me on display
But didn't realize
Instead of setting it free
I took what I hated and made it part of me"

Listening to this is when I realized my interpretation of the song. He was bullied and of everything he could do or say he put his situation with his bully on display. But instead of using it to get rid of his memories and feeling better about it, he hurt other people in the same way hoping he would feel better. Therefore taking what he hated, cause nobody likes being bullied and made it a part of who he was by bullying others.

[It never goes away]

"Hearing your name
The memories come back again
I remember when it started happening
I'd see you in every thought I had and then
The thoughts slowly found words attached to them
And I knew as they escaped away I was commited myself to them
And every day I regret those things
'Cause now I see
That I took what I hated and made it a part of me"

This entire stanza is the same as the first stanza in its explination, it just shows it using different words. It saying the same thing that he was bullied and began using what he went through and bullied others.


[It never goes away]

"And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't seperate myself from what I've done
I've given up a part of me
I've let myself become you"

The chorus basically is saying how the bully has become a part of him, and it was something he feared, "his greatest fear." He let himself become the bully by doing exactly what the bully had done to him.

"Gimme my space back
You gotta just go
Everything comes down to memories of you
I've kept it in but now I'm letting you know
I've let you go
Get away from me"

He finally realizes what he's doing wrong and he's changing his ways and letting go of these memories of his past.


That's how I interpret it as, and it makes a lot of sense. Obviously as most linkin park songs, different situations can relate to it. In a basic sense this song is about anyone that caused the writer pain and then the writer slowly found himself turning into the person who caused him pain.
forgotten1 December 30th, 2005 06:58AM  
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this song is about a bully. Someone that makes fun of the character in the song so much that their insults get imbedded in their head and they soon start thinking they arent good enough. The "get away from me" part is about the voices in his head telling him he isn't good enough for normal life.
anonymous December 27th, 2006 11:11AM  
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He wants his girlfriend to leave him alone. She's just too demanding.
anonymous April 28th, 2007 01:14AM  
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What I think is that the writer's talking about himself. It's about a part of himself that he hates. He badly wants this part to go away, get away from himself. Still, it stays with him...stays as a main influence in his life.
anonymous May 29th, 2007 07:56PM  
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I believe that his best friend may of betrayed him, and he couldn't get over it, so he sunk as low as his friend did, and he's angry that he let it degrade himself. Towards the end when he's yelling
"Get away from me
Gimme my space back
You gotta just go
Everything comes down to memories of you"
He's speaking to the best friend who betrayed him and he wants the himself back and his best friend to disappear from his mind.
anonymous June 23rd, 2007 11:10AM  
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Couldn't it be that the writer recognized that himself get changed by someone? Slowly and in a unknown process... With the words

"I think of how I shot myself in the back again"

the writer is giving us a look into his feelings, the pain inside of him. The thought about how he could shot himself in the back again... Maybe the person changed him durably become a part of him while dealing all this feelings...

The chorus is telling us the main thought, maybe the words everyone could think in a special situation.

"And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you"

He's giving up a part of himself and he could be shamed by becoming someone, something else...

And when he says

"I took what I've hated and made it a part of me"

It's not only the thing he hated, it's the thing he feared. 'Cause I can tell you... When I was young I got ignored by everyone, till I changed myself when I become like these people. I got respected when I was dealing the same things I had to suffer by. And I really hated myself for this. So he gives what he feared to other people, so the thing he hated becomes a part of him.
anonymous October 22nd, 2007 01:24PM  
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I think this song is about someone who broke up with his girl/boyfriend because they just wouldn't fit, and struggled dealing with that. After he managed to partially deal with it, his ex sometimes goes just that little bit further than just being friends. Even though he knows he should ignore it and go on, he starts to hope they will get back together. after that he realizes that they will not get back together and he falls in pain. This keeps repeating and he keeps falling. His good memories now turn to bad ones, and he blames himself for falling for the trap of hoping. He asks his ex to stop acting like that and leave him alone.
anonymous January 27th, 2008 09:03PM  
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I think the line "Never goes away, never goes away" and the title of the song refer to the infinite decimal 0.99999999~.
SXcalibur May 14th, 2008 11:20PM  
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It's about someone he hates like a bully or maybe even abusive parents pick on him and it gets to him so he starts to defend himself from everyone and then realizes in trying to defend himself he became what he was defending himself from.
anonymous October 9th, 2009 01:10AM  
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Where do I start? Linkin park has songs that you can eaisly put yourself into. Now my story... I'm that Honor student and my parents tried to push me to the right deriction as the made me be a scientist. One day I completley snapped at my parents wich resulted in a 3 day argument that resulted in me running away untill the found me a week later and forced me home. Now my dad hasnt forgivin me since but my mom has. (Get away from ME!) Give me my space back You’ve gotta just (GO!) Everything comes down to memories of (YOU!) I've kept it in but now I’m letting you (KNOW!) I've let you go! So (get away from ME!) Give me my space back You've gotta just (GO!) Everything comes down to memories of (YOU!) I've kept it in but now I’m letting you (KNOW!) I've let you go! And now You've become a part of me You'll always be right here You've become a part of me You'll always be my fear I can't separate Myself from what I've done Giving up a part of me I've let myself become you I've let myself become you I've let myself become lost inside these thoughts of you Giving up a part of me I've let myself become you The end describes exactly how i feel about this mess. Slowy ive become more and more like him. Losing some of me I became him.Now recovering from this transformatio im finding myself again. But this is my interpretation find yours!

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