Dedicated (Demo 1999)-Linkin Park

[ti:dedicated] [ar:linkin park] [al:191346] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.56]I have a dream of a scene between the green hills [00:02.99]Clouds pull away and the sunlight's revealed [00:04.76]People don't talk about keeping it real [00:07.37]It's understood that they actually will [00:09.30]And intoxicated and stimulated emcees [00:11.74]Staring in the trees paranoid or caught in the breeze [00:14.61]Watch them flee hip-hop hits [00:16.79]Take a walk with me and what you'll see [00:19.09]Is a land where the sand is made up of crushed up wax [00:21.56]And the sky beyond you is krylon blue [00:23.39]And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme [00:25.99]And emcees have left materialism behind them [00:28.30]Meanwhile I just grip my mic [00:30.58]And hope me and my team make it through alright [00:32.95]Because say what you will and say what you might [00:35.38]But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night [00:37.51]Because this is dedicated to the kids [00:39.63]Dedicated to where the music lives [00:41.35]Dedicated to those tired of the same old same [00:44.49]And dedicated to the people advanced in the game [00:46.94]What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong [00:49.20]What's real is the kids who think they don't belong [00:51.68]What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run [00:53.88]Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun [00:56.31]I've seen a lot of sh*t I've talked to a bum [00:58.66]Out on sunset strip he asked me How would you feel [01:01.10]If everybody acted like you didn't exist [01:02.91]You'd lose your grip probably eventually flip [01:05.41]So let it be known the only reason that we do this [01:07.83]So that you can pick it up and just bang your head to it [01:10.76]While emcees fight to see who can be the commonist [01:12.93]Be floatin overhead like a space odyssey monolith [01:15.24]Over seeing the game over being part of the same old thing [01:18.12]It's all gonna change in a hurricane of darkness and pain [01:21.52]And acidic rain and promises that you won't do it again [01:24.39]Meanwhile I just grip my mic [01:26.58]And hope me and my team make it through alright [01:28.59]Because say what you will and say what you might [01:31.13]But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night [01:33.53]Because this is dedicated to the kids [01:35.56]Dedicated to where the music lives [01:37.31]Dedicated to those tired of the same old same [01:40.05]And dedicated to the people advanced in the game [01:42.50]What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong [01:44.97]What's real is the kids who think they don't belong [01:47.31]What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run [01:49.64]Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun [01:51.99]Pulling me close the shadow is warm inside [01:59.53]This is where I feel at home this is my place to hide [02:04.24]Pulling me close the shadow is warm inside [02:08.65]This is where I feel at home this is my place to hide [02:11.24]Because this is dedicated to the kids [02:13.01]Dedicated to where the music lives [02:15.30]Dedicated to those tired of the same old same [02:17.75]And dedicated to the people advanced in the game [02:20.20]What's real is the kids who know that something's wrong [02:22.38]What's real is the kids who think they don't belong [02:24.78]What's real is the kids who have nowhere to run [02:27.20]Who are hiding in the shadows waiting for the sun [02:29.81]This is dedicated to the kids [02:31.58]Dedicated to where the music lives [02:33.28]Dedicated to those tired of the same old same [02:36.40]And dedicated to the people advanced in the game [02:38.45]What's real everybody who doesn't feel safe [02:40.93]What's real everybody who knows they're out of place [02:43.49]What's real anybody with nowhere to run [02:45.50]Will hide in the shadows waiting for the sun