[Intro]
I knew I was being threatened
Do you think it's worth holding out'
I mean I've heard some pretty ugly things about those guys
Ugly stories
(electric guitar starts)
'Watch them flee.. watch them flee' *scratches*
'Rap up' *scratches*
'Watch them flee' *scratches*
'Hip-Hop hits' *scratches*
'And you do it like this'
(Mike Shinoda)
[Verse 1]
It's going down
The rhythm projects 'round the next sound
Reflects a complex hybrid dialect now
Detect a mesh of many elements compressed down
The melting pot of a super-futuresque style
The combination of a vocal caress
With lungs that gasp for breath
From emotional stress
With special effects
In a distorted collage
Carefully lodged between beats of a rhythmic barrage
[Pre-Chorus](2x)
It's going down
The logical progression on a the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey
Now it's going down
[Chorus](2x)
'Put put.. put it up' *scratches*
'I said it goes like this' *scratches*
'And you do it like this' *scratches*
It's going down
(Mike Shinoda)
[Verse 2]
Once again it is
Composed sentences all together venomous
The four elements of natural force
Projected daily through the sound of the source
Everybody on board as we blend
The sword with the pen
The mightiest of weapons
Swinging right for the chin
To elevate mental states
Long gone with the wind
To defend men for shoddy imitation pretends
It's going down
Stalence emulation readily
Trekking through the weaponry
Of the pure pedigree
Cleverly seeing through whatever is ahead of me
Whatever the weather be
We're advancing steadily
It's going down to sub-t
