linkin park leave out all the rest song meaning
Leave Out All the Rest In a Kerrang! review/interview of the band, and the album, vocalist Chester Bennington had this to say about the song, "We knew this was going to be a single from the very beginning, so we worked really hard on making sure it had great lyrics. I'm singing 'Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself' during it because it's supposed to feel like an apology letter, as though I'm moving on but I want people to remember the good things and not the bad things. A lot of the song is about humility."[5] Mike Shinoda has also stated that Rick Rubin (producer for Minutes to Midnight) was the first to have said "This sounds like a massive single".
Laid to Rest The song is meant to be a first-person narrative of a murder victim, haunting his killer from beyond the grave. On the other side, the lyrics may also have a connection to the Iraq War, like most of the songs from Ashes of the Wake.
Harlan Howard Howard formulated the oft-quoted definition of a great country song: "Three chords and the truth."[3]
A Hazy Shade of Winter The lyrics recall the transition from fall to winter, as suggested by the repetition of the final chorus of the song: