Chester Bennington's cry for HELP! Linkin Park

I don't know if anybody out there can relate but like I have a hard time with life sometimes sometimes it's great but a lot of times for me it's really hard and and no matter how I'm feeling like I always find myself like struggling with certain patterns to behave myself X stuck in like ice in like the same thing that keeps repeating over and over again and I'm just like how do I end up how am i end this it's that moment where you're in it and then you can a separate yourself from that situation

and you look at it and you see it for what it is and you you're able to then do something about it like you've you've now broken out of that that circle that cycle and is it is it a are you kind of because first the first couple of lines on the track make me think that you were like overthinking things in your life is it I get it it could be your something honestly like there's so many there's so many circumstances that for me that relate to this situation but like I know that for

me when I'm inside myself when I'm in my own head it gets this place right here this is the skull between my ears that is a bad neighborhood and I am I should not be in there alone I need I can't be in there by myself you're talking about it's just you just you just it's insane it's crazy in here this is a bad place for me to be by myself and so when I'm in that like I do I my whole life gets thrown off like if I'm in there like I don't say nice

things to myself like there's another Chester in there that's like once it take me down and so and I find that it could be whether its substances or whether its behavior or whether it's like depressive stuff or whatever it is like if I'm not like actively like doing getting out of myself and and being with other people like being a dad being a husband being a bandmate like being a friend helping someone out like if I'm not if I'm out of myself I'm great if I'm inside all the time I'm horrible M&S and so for

me it's like that was kind of where I don't like my mind right now stacking up problems that are so unnecessary you know that's where that kind of that was where that came from for me and and that's but it's the moment words like really isn't like I Drive myself nuts like actually thinking that like all these are real problems like all the stuff that's going on in here is actually just I'm doing this to myself and regardless of whatever that thing is and so this is that like conscious awareness of that thing and like

when you when you can step back and look at something like you're actually elevating yourself consciously like you're you're you're enlightened at that point right to a certain degree and so this is that moment of enlightenment where you go you know I could do something about this and by doing it I can move forward and get unstuck from this and I can actually be able to for me it's like I can live with life on life's terms like I can get experience the whole spectrum of humanity and not want to get out of it whether

it's happiness sadness or whatever like I just want to like I when I'm in it I just want to get out of however I'm feeling no matter what it is so when you wrote this song you were clearly in that bad neighborhood in your brain this time last year I was a mess I got total wreck you know and like I think for a lot of people that think like if you're successful like all the sudden like you get like a green like you get like some card in the mail that says like you're gonna

be totally satisfied and happy for the rest of your life it it doesn't happen like that like life for me happens the way it always it's my the only difference is I'm in Lincoln Park like what goes on inside my head it's always been that's always been this way for me so when I'm not working on that like my life gets messy and that's kind of the how the the inspiration for all these songs came from conversations about life and what was going on as friends as husbands as fathers as you know whatever business partners

like we were all talking about what was going on in all aspects of our lives at certain times start the process of this record and we realize like man we've all gone through like some really crazy stuff and we don't need to find the source of inspiration like what's this record about like this is our life you know the we always have written about our lives and like that should just be enough we don't need to find some new thing like life is always throwing these like curveballs at you whether they're good or bad like

it just happens and eventually what I found is especially with the bad stuff because that's the stuff that I kind of lean that's the stuff that we might that sticks to me little bit more coming out at the other side and being like man I'm a better person because of that or I can I'm more compassionate because of that or you know I can understand I feel like I can understand people or humanity a little bit differently because I've been through some pretty crazy stuff and that's a positive so finding the positive in all these

things that's what we always try to do but we still talk about the feelings we had going through all these different circumstances you [Music]