| Nobody's Listening | |||||
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| Song by Linkin Park from the album Meteora | |||||
| Working title | Nocturnal | ||||
| Released | March 25, 2003 | ||||
| Format | CD • Vinyl | ||||
| Recorded | 2002 | ||||
| Genre | Rap rock
Alternative Hip-Hop | ||||
| Length | 2:58 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
| Writer | Linkin Park | ||||
| Producer | Linkin Park • Don Gilmore | ||||
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Nobody's Listening is the eleventh track on Linkin Park's album Meteora. Like Hit the Floor, it is a more hip-hop driven song featuring a lot of Mike Shinoda's rapping. However, this song has less rock elements, featuring a programmed drum beat, and only palm-muted guitars during the chorus. The song is most notable for its use of the shakuhachi, a Japanese flute made of bamboo.
Lyrics[]
Yo, Peep the style and the kids checking for it
The number one question is how could you ignore it
And drop right back in the cut
Over basement tracks
With raps that got you backing this up like
[Rewind that]
We're just rolling with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylistic division
With these non-stop lyrics of life living
Not to be forgotten
But still unforgiven
But in the meantime there are those who wanna
Talk this and that / So I suppose that
It gets to a that point where feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt
[It goes]
Try to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
Call to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
I got a
Heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
And everything left's a waste of time
I hate my rhymes
[But hate everyone else's more]
I'm riding on the back of this pressure
Guessing that it's better I can't keep myself together
Because all of this stress gave me something to write on
The pain gave me something I could set my sights on
Never forget the blood sweat and tears,
The uphill struggle over years, the fear, and trash talking and the people it was to
And the people that started it
Just like you
Try to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
Call to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
I got a
Heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
Uphill struggle / Blood sweat and tears
Nothing to gain / Everything to fear
Heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
Uphill struggle / Blood sweat and tears
Nothing to gain / Everything to fear
Heart full of pain
(Heart full of pain)
(Heart full of pain)
(Heart full of pain)
Try to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
Call to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
I got a heart full of pain / Head full of stress
Nobody's listening
Handful of anger / Held in my chest
Nobody's listening
Uphill struggle / Blood sweat and tears
Nobody's listening
Nothing to gain / Everything to fear
Nobody's listening
[Come, Come]
[Come]
[Come]
[Coming at you]
[Come, Come]
[Come]
[Come]
[Coming at you]
[Come, Coming]
[Come]
[Come]
[Coming at-]
[Come, Come]
[Come, Come]
[Coming at you from every side]
Music video[]
Nobody's Listening