LINKIN PARK - NUMB

NUMB

LINKIN PARK

SONGWRITERS: BENNINGTON CHESTER CHARLES; WEST KANYE OMARI; CARTER SHAWN C; SHINODA MICHAEL KENJI; HAHN JOSEPH; DELSON BRADFORD PHILIP; BOURDON ROBERT G. & FARRELL DAVID MICHAEL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: METEORA

LABEL: WARNER BROS.

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 2002

 

        "Numb" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released as the third single from their second studio album, Meteora(2003), and is the closing track on the album. One of Linkin Park's most well-known and critically acclaimed songs, "Numb" topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart for 12 weeks. The song spent six weeks at the top of the chart in 2003 and six weeks in 2004. The song also spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

    The song was remixed as "Numb/Encore", a collaboration between the band and American rapper Jay-Z. It was a massive hit for both artists that was featured on the álbum Collision Course and earned them the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. "Numb" was ranked number 95 on Rhapsody's list of the "Top 100 Tracks of the Decade".

           In January 2011, "Numb" was released in a Linkin Park DLC pack for Rock Band 3. In August 2020, it, together with several other Linkin Park songs, was added in an update to Beat Saber.

I'm tired of being what you want me to be

Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface

Don't know what you're expecting of me

Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

 

Every step that I take is another mistake to you

(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)

 

I've become so numb

I can't feel you there

Become so tired

So much more aware

 

I'm becoming this

All I want to do

Is be more like me

And be less like you

 

Can't you see that you're smothering me

Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control?

'Cause everything that you thought I would be

Has fallen apart right in front of you

 

Every step that I take is another mistake to you

(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)

And every second I waste is more than I can take

 

I've become so numb

I can't feel you there

Become so tired

So much more aware

 

I'm becoming this

All I want to do

Is be more like me

And be less like you

 

And I know

I may end up failing too

But I know

You were just like me with someone disappointed in you

 

I've become so numb

I can't feel you there

Become so tired

So much more aware

 

I'm becoming this

All I want to do

Is be more like me

And be less like you

 

I've become so numb

I can't feel you there

(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)

I've become so numb

I can't feel you there

(I'm tired of being what you want me to be).