“Cross Off”
Written by Mark Morton, Chester Bennington, Jake Oni and Josh Wilbur
Vocals – Chester Bennington
Guitars – Mark Morton
Bass – Paolo Gregoletto
Drums – Alex Bent
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Cross off the days gone by.
Wasting away, a self-inflicted, slow decay,
What should've been, what never was,
became the end for both of us,
Heavy is the hand that points the finger,
Heavy is the heart that’s filled with anger,
so lay them all to waste,
Years you decided to erase,
And cross off the days.
So black out and hide behind the lines,
keep staring down the sun and hope
the light will finally blind your eyes from seeing.
Cross off the days gone by.
Cutting free, the phantom limb was part of me,
You have lived, you have lost,
the separation's worth the cost
Heavy are the words that go unspoken,
Heavy are the promises now broken.
Will you learn to love the taste
of the destruction in your wake?
Cross off the days.
Making my way back from the madness,
shifting my thoughts from the blackness,
and the sadness but the fact is,
i'm swinging through life like a clinched fist,
Fuck sanity, I want to bleed,
can't kill the pain, its everything,
its all I feel, its what I breathe,
Turn the hate I breed into what I need
Heavy is the hand that points the finger.
Heavy is the heart that's filled with anger.
Did you survey everything you laid to waste
and cross off the days?