Minutes to Midnight es un álbum de Linkin Park, publicado en 2007 por Warner Bros. Records. El disco incluye 12 canciones, entre ellas «Wake», «Given Up», «Leave Out All The Rest» y «Bleed It Out».
Sobre el álbum
"Minutes to Midnight", de 2007, es el álbum de la reinvención, una obra que marca una ruptura deliberada con el sonido nu metal de sus inicios y un punto de inflexión en la discografía de Linkin Park. Para este trabajo, la banda se alió con el legendario productor Rick Rubin, buscando un sonido de rock alternativo más clásico, orgánico y maduro.
El sonido del disco sorprendió a muchos de sus seguidores. La banda reduce la presencia del rap y de la electrónica para centrarse en las guitarras, las melodías y las estructuras de canciones más tradicionales. La influencia de bandas como U2 es palpable en el sonido de rock de estadio del álbum.
El disco contiene algunos de los mayores éxitos de su carrera. El single principal, "What I've Done", se convirtió en un himno global, mientras que baladas como "Leave Out All the Rest" o "Shadow of the Day" demostraron la increíble versatilidad de la banda. El álbum muestra a un Linkin Park que ha crecido y que explora nuevas facetas líricas y musicales.
"Minutes to Midnight" es un álbum valiente y muy exitoso. Es el sonido de una banda que se niega a ser encasillada y que asume el riesgo de evolucionar, un trabajo que no solo fue un éxito de ventas masivo, sino que también demostró la profundidad y la ambición artística de Linkin Park.
Listado de Canciones
- Wake1:40
- Given Up3:09
Letra
Wake in a sweat again Another day's been laid to waste In my disgrace Stuck in my head again Feels like I'll never leave this place There's no escape I'm my own worst enemy I've given up, I'm sick of feeling Is there nothing you can say? Take this all away, I'm suffocating Tell me what the fuck is wrong with me I don't know what to take Thought I was focused, but I'm scared I'm not prepared I hyperventilate Looking for help, somehow, somewhere And no one cares I'm my own worst enemy I've given up, I'm sick of feeling Is there nothing you can say? Take this all away, I'm suffocating Tell me what the fuck is wrong with me God!!! Put me out of my misery! Put me out of my misery! Put me out of my... Put me out of my fucking misery! I've given up, I'm sick of feeling Is there nothing you can say? Take this all away, I'm suffocating Tell me what the fuck is wrong with me - Leave Out All The Rest3:29
Letra
I dreamed I was missing You were so scared But no one would listen 'Cause no one else care After my dreaming I woke with this fear What am I leaving When I'm done here? So if you're asking me I want you to know When my time comes Forget the wrong that I've done Help me leave behind some Reasons to be missed And don't resent me When you're feeling empty Keep me in your memory Leave out all the rest Leave out all the rest Don't be afraid I've taken my beating I've shared what I'd made I'm strong on the surface Not all the way through I've never been perfect But neither have you So if you're asking me I want you to know When my time come Forget the wrong that I've done Help me leave behind some Reasons to be missed. And don't resent me When you're feeling empty Keep me in your memory Leave out all the rest Leave out all the rest Forgetting All the hurt inside You've learned to hide so well Pretending Someone else can come And save me from myself I can't be who you are When my time comes Forget the wrong that I've done Help me leave behind some Reasons to be missed And don't resent me When you're feeling empty Keep me in your memory Leave out all the rest Leave out all the rest Forgetting All the hurt inside You've learned to hide so well Pretending Someone else can come and save me from myself I can't be who you are I can't be who you are - Bleed It Out2:44
Letra
Yeah, here we go for the hundred time Hand grenade pins in every line Throw 'em up and let something shine Going out of my fucking mind Filthy mouth, no excuse Find a new place to hang this noose String me up from atop these roofs Knot it tight so I won't get loose Truth, this you can stop and stare Bled myself out and no one cares Dug the trench out, laid down there With a shovel up out of reach somewhere Yeah, someone pour it in Make it a dirty dance floor again Say your prayers and stomp it out When they bring that chorus in I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away Just to throw it away, just to throw it away I bleed it out I bleed it out, go, stop the show Choppy words and a sloppy flow Shotgun opera, lock and load Cock it back and then watch it go Mama help me, I've been cursed Death is rolling in every verse Candy paint on his brand new hearse Can't contain me, he knows his works Fuck this hurts, I won't lie Doesn't matter how hard I try Half the words don't mean a thing And I know I won't be satisfied So why try ignoring him? Make it a dirt dance floor again Say your prayers and stomp it out When they bring that chorus in I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away Just to throw it away, just to throw it away I bleed it out, I've opened up these scars I'll make you face this I pull myself so far I'll make you face this now I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away Just to throw it away, just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away I bleed it out Digging deeper just to throw it away Just to throw it away, just to throw it away I bleed it out I bleed it out I bleed it out - Shadow Of The Day4:49
Letra
I close both locks below the window I close both blinds and turn away Sometimes solutions aren't so simple Sometimes goodbye's the only way And the sun will set for you The sun will set for you And the shadow of the day Will embrace the world in grey And the sun will set for you In cards and flowers on your window Your friends all plead for you to stay Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple Sometimes goodbye's the only way And the sun will set for you The sun will set for you And the shadow of the day Will embrace the world in grey And the sun will set for you And the shadow of the day Will embrace the world in grey And the sun will set for you And the shadow of the day Will embrace the world in grey And the sun will set for you - What I've Done3:25
- Hands Held High3:53
Letra
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 drum and Jump when they tell us That they wanna see jumping Fuck that I wanna 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 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 And these fuckers are Laughing their way to the bank Cashing the check Asking you to have compassion And have some respect For a leader so nervous in a obvious way Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day In their living room laughing like What did he say? Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen In my living room watching I am not laughing Cause When it gets tense I know what might happen The world is cold The bold men make action Have to react or get blown into fractions Ten years old It's something to see Another Kid my age drug 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 They're out today they 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 on the busses 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" And 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? Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you (x6) - No More Sorrow3:41
Letra
Are you lost in your lies? Do you tell yourself I don't realize Your crusade's a disguise? Replaced freedom with fear You trade money for lives I'm aware of what you've done No, no more sorrow I've paid for your mistakes Your time is borrowed Your time has come to be replaced I see pain, I see need I see liars and thieves Abuse power with greed I had hope, I believed But I'm beginning to think that I've been decieved You will pay for what you've done No, no more sorrow I've paid for your mistakes Your time is borrowed Your time has come to be replaced Thieves and hypocrites! Thieves and hypocrites! Thieves and hypocrites! No, no more sorrow I've paid for your mistakes Your time is borrowed Your time has come to be replaced No more sorrow I've paid for your mistakes Your time is borrowed Your time has come to be replaced Your time has come to be replaced Your time has come to be erased - Valentine's Day3:16
- In Between3:16
Letra
Let me apologize to begin with Let me apologize for what I'm about to say But trying to be genuine Was harder than it seems And somehow I got caught up in between Let me apologize to begin with Let me apologize for what I'm about to say But trying to be someone else Was harder than it seems And somehow I got caught up in between Between my pride and my promise Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way The things I want to say to you Get lost before they come The only thing that's worse than one is none Let me apologize to begin with Let me apologize for what I'm about to say But trying to regain your trust Was harder than it seems And somehow I got caught up in between Between my pride and my promise Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way The things I want to say to you Get lost before they come The only thing that's worse than one is none The only thing that's worse than one is none And I cannot explain to you In anything I say or do or plan Fear is not afraid you But guilt's a language you can understand I cannot explain to you in anything I say or do I hope the actions speak the words they can For my pride and my promise For my lies and how the truth gets in the way The things I want to say to you Get lost before they come The only thing that's worse than one is none And my promise Between my lies and how the truth gets in the way The things I want to say to you get lost before they come The only thing that's worse than one is none The only thing that's worse than one is none The only thing that's worse than one is none - In Pieces3:38
Letra
Telling me to go But hands beg me to stay Your lips say that you love Your eyes say that you hate There's truth in your lies Doubt in your faith What you build you lay to waste There's truth in your lies Doubt in your faith All I've got's what you didn't take So I I won't be the one Be the one to leave this In pieces And you You will be alone Alone with all your secrets And regrets Don't lie You promise me the sky Then toss me like a stone You wrap me in your arms And chill me to the bone There's truth in your lies Doubt in your faith All I've got's what you didn't take So I I won't be the one Be the one to leave this In pieces And you You will be alone Alone with all your secrets And regrets Don't lie So I I won't be the one Be the one to leave this In pieces And you You will be alone Alone with all your secrets And regrets Don't lie - The Little Things Give You Away6:23
Letra
Water gray, through the windows, up the stairs Chilling rain, like an ocean everywhere Don't want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away And now there will be no mistaking The levees is breaking All you've ever wanted Was someone to truly look up to you And six feet under water, I do Hope decays Generations disappear Washed away As a nation simply stares Don't want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away But now there will be no mistaking The levees is breaking All you've ever wanted Was someone to truly look up to you And six feet under water, I do All you've ever wanted Was someone to truly look up to you And six feet underground now I Now I do The little things give you away The little things give you away The little things give you away The little things give you away All you've ever wanted (The little things give you away) Was someone to truly look up to you (The little things give you away) All you've ever wanted (The little things give you away) Was someone to truly look up to you (The little things give you away) All you've ever wanted (The little things give you away) Was someone to truly look up to you (The little things give you away) All you've ever wanted (The little things give you away) Was someone to truly look up to you (The little things give you away) All you've ever wanted (The little things give you away) Was someone to truly look up to you (The little things give you away) All you've ever wanted (The little things give you away) Was someone to truly look up to you (The little things give you away)