I love this one - it should be made available for all LP FANS!!!

Mirror World Aftermath

A lost track from Linkin Park's One More Light sessions.

The song was originally made with Songwriter Brian Howes alongside Mike Shinoda and possibly Brad Delson during the 2016 sessions that resulted in the OML album that came out the next year.

The song never made the cut for the album, and stayed hidden alongside all other OML demos until leaked by Brian Howes himself in early 2019 - at the time, the one and only OML demo to surface. The song had actually been seen before hand, however, on the BMI charts alongside another One More Light unreleased track called Ricochet, which Brian Howes also helped on. Brian Howes went on to explain that What Are You Worth was originally going to be a single with vocals by Chester Bennington, however due to his death, that idea was scrapped.

According to Mike Shinoda, "What Are You Worth was a song that we worked on for One More Light and I wasn't... I only get bummed out when people leak songs because when it's an unfinished and it's like somebody else just doing it for, I don't know. I feel like if I make a song with somebody and it doesn't work out, like they're welcome to do what they want with their part of it but don't do what you want with my part of it. I think that's rude, I think that's really not awesome..." Mike clearly was not happy about the song being released by Howes, and has stated no desire to rework or ever release the song officially.

~ Lyrics ~
Daylight / knowing I'm all alone
White lies / lining up on their own
You said you would stand on my side
Regret / it's too late to deny

All the back and forth and yes and no
All the right and wrong and high and low
And you set me up to let me down
But it all comes back around

What are you worth now?
What are you waiting for?
When every battlefield you run from generates a war?
What are you chasing?
What do you think you deserve?
Cause you will never have a thing unless you've got your word
What are you worth?

Last straw / as the sky turns to red
Free fall / while I fight to forget

All the back and forth and yes and no
All the right and wrong and high and low
And you set me up to let me down
But it all comes back around

What are you worth now?
What are you waiting for?
When every battlefield you run from generates a war?
What are you chasing?
What do you think you deserve?
Cause you will never have a thing unless you've got your word
What are you worth?
What are you worth?

All the back and forth and yes and no
All the right and wrong and high and low
And you set me up to let me down
But it all comes back around

What are you worth now?
What are you waiting for?
When every battlefield you run from generates a war?
What are you chasing?
What do you think you deserve?
Cause you will never have a thing unless you've got your word
What are you worth?
What are you worth?
What are you worth?
What are you worth?

Linkin Park - What Are You Worth? (2016 Demo)

Blanka (2008 Demo)

Check out the music video for 'Hemostasis' over on my YT channel: https://youtu.be/qbfnxe4zu2E

Lyrics:

Let's go

Let me bleed tonight
As I await for you to shut the door
Let your silence desolate me
As I stumble to the floor
Send your curses out to find the hate
That forged my cold and rotten core
Feed me hopes and dreams
That desecrate your purity once more

No shattered wings
No scars to heal
No eyes in which to stare
You promised me this pain's not real
So why should I pretend my heart is there

Let me drown again
As I await for you to swim ashore
Let your absence seal my fate
'Cause I'm alone and I feel nothing anymore
Let your whispers instigate
Forgotten monsters that I swore
Will once again defy your faith
When they come wielding War

No shattered wings
No scars to heal
No eyes in which to stare
You promised me this pain's not real
So I pretend my heart's not there

You are my weakness
And I am your sin
Your eyes leave me speechless
I'm craving your skin
I love this desire
But hate all your games
Like moths chasing fire
I'm burning in flames

Burning in flames
Burning in flames

Will yours be the stare that silences my screams
Or are you a nightmare that's eating my dreams

I'm burning up again
When will this darkness end

No shattered wings
No scars to heal
No eyes in which to stare
You promised me this pain's not real
So I pretend my heart's not there

Go

No shattered wings
No scars to heal
No eyes in which to stare
You promised me this pain's not real
So I pretend my heart's not there

Hemostasis

Lyrics:

A weary memory seeps through gaps,
Like echoes rippling down a river,
Encased in glass adorned with cracks,
Your sweet goodbyes start tasting bitter.

(Tasting bitter...)

I grasp in vain, as stars collapse,
Like raindrops sliding down your mirror,
I wither on as days elapse, and drown,
While the abyss draws nearer.

'Till morning dawns, I shut my eyes,
I hold my breath, and count to ten,
Before the Sun has time to rise,
I'll burn into the light again.

'Till morning dawns, I shut my eyes,
I hold my breath, and count to ten,
Before the Sun has time to rise,
I'll burn into the light again.
'Till darkness falls, I shut my eyes,
I hold my breath, and jump before
The Moon begins to touch the skies,
I'll fade into the night once more.

[IPA English]
rɪˈpiːtɪŋ ˈpætᵊnz krɒs maɪ pɑːθ
kəˈlɛktɪŋ teəz frɒm ˈwiːpɪŋ ˈwɪləʊz
bʌt naʊ ðæt ˈnʌmnəs tɜːnz tuː rɒθ
aɪ leɪ ðeə wɪlt əˈpɒn jɔː ˈpɪləʊz
laɪk ˈpɜːpᵊl stɔːmz ɒn ˈfrəʊzᵊn lɪps
maɪ ˈfaɪnᵊl brɛθ sɪts træpt ɪn ˈlɪmbəʊ
əˈweɪtɪŋ ˈwɪntəz ˈmɔːnfᵊl ɡlɪmps
tuː kɪl ðə klɒks əˈbʌv jɔː ˈwɪndəʊ

[Translation]
(Repeating patterns cross my path,
Collecting tears from weeping willows,
But now that numbness turns to wrath,
I lay their wilt upon your pillows.
Like purple storms on frozen lips,
My final breath sits trapped in Limbo,
Awaiting winter's mournful glimpse,
To kill the clocks above your window.)

'Till morning dawns, I shut my eyes,
I hold my breath, and count to ten,
Before the Sun has time to rise,
I'll burn into the light again.
'Till darkness falls, I shut my eyes,
I hold my breath, and jump before
The Moon begins to touch the skies,
I'll fade into the night once more.

'Till morning dawns, I shut my eyes,
I hold my breath, and count to ten,
Before the Sun has time to rise,
I'll burn into the light again.
'Till darkness falls, I shut my eyes,
I hold my breath, and jump before
The Moon begins to touch the skies,
I'll fade into the night once more.

Ptera

Mirrors

The First expanded and early glimpse of Majestic 12. this collects just about every mix made of Communion and some outtakes from Majestic 12 as proper B-Sides

Communion 1-14-25 [MSTR]

Linkin Park - ANIMALS (2011 Demo)

Demo Tracks LP

Linkin Park State Of The Art (Demo)

Linkin Park Pretend To Be (Unreleased Demo

Linkin Park - Bleed It Out (2007 Demo) (#NR)

TooLegit

01 TooLeGit (2010 Demo)LINKIN PARK

Underground X: Demos

What We Don't Know (2007 Demo)

Pale (2006 Demo)

I Have Not Begun (2009 Demo)

Wow! It's been a really long time since I've published something. What was it, 6 months? What have I been working on this entire time?

Is it worth the wait?

...

Nah lol

But I hope you enjoy nonetheless. :)

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[VERSE 1]

Some people say that
the universe is made of what you notice.
Just block out the dark and
find some light to pin your focus.

I just don't agree.
Try not to fall for this deception.
Darkness is what shapes the mind;
don't get left behind in this warped perception.

[CHORUS]

They can't see or know
the eclipse that hides the truth from sight.
They cannot truly see the dark
if they do not know of light.

I know how they feel,
just want a happy ending.
But time carries on
until they stop pretending.

[VERSE 2]

They can try their hardest to shield their eyes
from the stormy clouds that seem so frightening
and they never see those
bursts of light that come like lightning.

And when they're gone,
their ignorance will lead us to forget them.
When they open up their eyes,
gone will be the dark and the light that drew them.

[CHORUS]

They can't see or know
the eclipse that hides the truth from sight.
They cannot truly see the dark
if they do not know of light.

I know how they feel,
just want a happy ending.
But time carries on
until they stop pretending.

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Made with: FL Studio 12.5

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