LINKIN PARK LYRICS - Blackbirds

[Intro]
Drop that
get up
Take to the streets
better lock that kid up
Face full of teeth when he hock that spit up
Pacing the beat like a beast
Rocking the block on repeat
Speak from the cut like a rush of blood
Paint red on the sleeves of the ones you love
Lay the sick ones down and the bells will ring
Put pennies on the eyes let the dead men sing

[Verse 1]
I shiver and shake through warm and cold,
And alone, on my own.
In every mistake, I dig this hole through my skin
And bones.

[Pre-Chorus]
It's harder starting over,
Than never to have changed.

[Chorus]
With blackbirds following me,
I'm digging out my grave.
They close in, swallowing me,
The pain, it comes in waves.
I'm giving back, what I gave.

[Verse 2]
I sweat through the sheet as daylight breaks,
As I waste away.
It traps me inside mistakes I've made,
That's the price I pay.

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
I drop to the floor like a 10-4
Stop, watching I'm coughing, I can't be more.
What I want, what I need, over constant war,
Like a well full of poison, a rotten core.
The blood goes thin, the fever stings,
And I shake from the hell that the habit brings.
Lay the sick ones down, the bells will ring,
Put pennies on the eyes, let the dead men sing.

[Chorus]

[Outro]
I'm getting back what I gave.
I'm getting back what I gave.