Linkin Park: Points of Authority Meaning

Song Released: 2002

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Points of Authority Lyrics

Forfeit the game / Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame
Cover up your face / You can't run the race
The pace is too fast / You just won't last

You love the way I look at you
While taking pleasure in the...

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   caljehu

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   Oct 21st 2008, 08:32 report

   
   

   It's about you being with someone who suffered, abused from the past and now he/she wants you to experience it from him/her...
   that person could be an abusive parent or a psycho boyfriend/girlfriend I don't know, but that's how it goes...

   
   
   
   

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   chaoschick

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   Oct 16th 2011, 00:59 report

   
   

   I think that this song has a little bit of a masochistic emotion flowing through it.
   
   This song is about being abused, probably in a relationship. However, the song is not talking about LEAVING. It just mentions the putting down, the humiliation, and the hopelessness. Yet it almost sounds as if there is a bit of forgiveness too.
   
   "You like to think you're never wrong
   You want to act like you're someone
   You want someone to hurt like you
   You want to share what you've been through"
   
   The abuser seems to have gone through the same things that they are now inflicting upon the abusee.
   
   Just to say, My favorite part is this:
   
   "You love the things I say I'll do -
   The way I'll hurt myself again just to get back at you
   You take away when I give in
   My life
   My pride is broken"
   
   
   Beautifully sad.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Aug 8th 2011, 18:30 report

   
   

   i think this song is about someone in a fake position of power who abuses this power by preying on those who are weaker. to me the person thinks he or she is always right and is stubbornly stuck in his or her own faulty destructive ways

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Jul 17th 2011, 21:33 report

   
   

   Personally, i think it's for Chester's step father, who sexually abused him as a child.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Dec 30th 2010, 11:26 report

   
   

   i think this song is talking about someone trying to provoke the lead singer Chester in the past and Chester wrote it to express the bad feeling he had felt.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Dec 28th 2010, 19:45 report

   
   

   Someone who has been through suffering and now wants the other person to feel the same way

   
   
   
   

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   ivansama

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   Jan 9th 2010, 10:23 report

   
   

   it's about how you do things you don't believe in for the one you love and how they take advantage of that.
   "You love the way I look at you
   While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through "

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Apr 28th 2009, 23:09 report

   
   

   I've always thought that this song could be about someone puutting someone else down,telling them to give up.They put down person enjoys seeing the other's pain and thrives off of it.The main person's life is completely ruined and miserable because of this.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Nov 17th 2008, 01:08 report

   
   

   I think this song is about an unhealthy relationship, either with a girl/boy friend, parent and child, etc.