In April 26, 2010; Linkin Park released video game for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. The name of the game is 8-Bit Rebellion! I cannot review the game yet because currently I'm not having any iGadget. Anyway, I'm hearing positive reviews regarding the game.

After the player completes the game, there will be special track unlocked and the track is called, "Blackbirds." At first time I heard the track, I do not really like it but after sometime, I start loving it. LOL.

SONG MEANING

Now about the song meaning. Songs can have variety meanings and I'm here with an interpretation of possible meaning.

In 2000, Linkin Park released their first studio ablum, "Hybrid Theory" and currently have over 24 million copies sold. In 2003, the band released second studio album called, "Meteora" and sold over 20 million copies again. Both of these albums are listed in the best selling albums of all time. In 2007, the band released third studio album, "Minutes To Midnight." Although it got certified golds and platinums, it does not satisfy all their fans the way the first two albums did.

I have Special Edition CDs of "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora" yet I have not purchased "Minutes To Midnight." My sister purchased it and I ripped off the tracks, Hehe. The booklets from the first two albums are marvellous but for the third one, it's not even half way close. It's not the best album but it has the best songs, "What I've Done" and "Leave Out All The Rest."

So I think, that's what this song is about. It's how things had became between the band and their fans, after the release of an experiemental album. Many fans demand for the original Linkin Park. The line from the lyrics: "It's harder starting over / Than never to have changed" clearly supports the interpretation here.

LYRICS

Drop that / Get up
Take to the streets / Better lock that kid up
Face full of teeth when he hock that spit up
Pacing the beat like a beast
Rocking the block on repeat
Speak from the cut like a rush of blood
Paint red on the sleeves of the ones you love
Lay the sick ones down and the bells will ring
Put pennies on the eyes let the dead men sing

I shiver and shake the warm air cold
I'm alone on my own
In every mistake I dig this hole
Through my skin and bones

It's harder starting over
Than never to have changed

With backbirds following me
I'm digging out my grave
They close in, swallowing me
The pain it comes in waves
I'm getting back what I gave

I sweat through the sheet as daylight fades
As I waste away
It traps me inside mistakes I've made
That's the price I pay

I drop to the floor like I did before
Stop watching / I'm coughing / I can't be more
What I want and what I need are at constant war
Like a well full of poison / A rotten core
The blood goes thin / The fever stings
And I shake from the hell that the habits bring
Let the sick ones down / The bells will ring
Put pennies on the eyes / Let the dead men sing

"All The Right Moves" by "OneRepublic." I love the song and the video. So, I decided to post the music video, together with the song meaning and lyrics. The beautiful element of the video is the masquerade ball performance.

SONG MEANING

According to OneRepublic, they intentionally made the music video to be abstract so that the song will be open for interpretation. So, it's difficult to give an accurate interpretation by combining both the lyrics and the video. Somehow, I have an interpretation based on the lyrics.

This song can be about OneRepublic themselves, having goal in competitive industry and they feel not good enough to reach above or higher than the top musicians. Even if they become the best, someone better will appear to bring them to the lower spot. So yeah, this song is rather negative than positive, LOL. Anyway, if you love music, you will surely want to sing along with this song. :)

This song is not limited only to music industry, it can be applied to other fields especially politics. If your competitor knows the right people, then you will go down. Besides that, even if everything seems to be turning well, sooner or later your competitor or enemy will turn you back down before you reach your goal.

The second verse is self questioning. The writer ask himself, if the band is good enough to make it to the spotlight or if the band will just remain normal, like the most bands out there. As I said, this song is negative, it says hard times can be possible and success can be possible too; however, success is far from reach.

As the song reaches the end, the writer says that although they are not the best, they will remain to be unique and will not change their style in making music.

It's kind of a self deprecating anthem and it's about how we've felt as a band at certain times. When OneRepublic came out, because of the other writing and producing I'd done, and because Timbaland was associated with our first single, we got completely discarded by the critics. Even if OneRepublic made the coolest art record ever, we'd never be able to erase the memory of how we broke. This song's aimed at all the cool bands that we'll never be. - Ryan Tedder

LYRICS

All the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
They've got all the right moves in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down

Let's paint the picture of the perfect place
They've got it better then when anyone's told you
They'll be the King of Hearts and you're the Queen of Spades
Then we'll fight for you like we were your soldiers
I know we've got it good, but they've got it made
And the grass is getting greener each day
I know things are looking up, but soon they'll take us down
Before anybody's knowing our name

They've got all the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
They've got all the right moves in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
Said everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down
Said everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down

Do you think I'm special? Do you think I'm nice?
Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces?
Between the noise you hear and the sounds you like
Are we just sinking the ocean of faces?
It can't be possible, the rain can fall
Only when it's over our heads.
The sun is shining everyday, but it's far away
Over the world that's dead.

It don't matter what you see
I know I could never be
Someone that'll look like you.
It don't matter what you say
I know I could never face
Someone that could sound like you.

SONG INFO

"Leave Out All The Rest"
by "Linkin Park"

SONG MEANING

I think everyone can relate to this song, the moment they reach at the end of their life or when they want to get away to start their new life to be someone better. At that moment, this song can be good dedication to their loved ones. :)

The song starts with the writer dreamed he was gone. No one else cared other than one person. I have no idea about that one person, it could be someone special, loved one or best friend. After the dreaming, he woke up with the same feeling and thinking there's nothing he could leave for that special one to remember him after he's gone.

Throughout the chorus, the writer wants to be remembered for the person he means to his special one; despite the things that were done and could have been done.

The second verse continues as he confess of things he have done. He have paid for those things that he have caused and have taken responsibility for those things. He admit he is not perfect and others too, are not perfect as well and everyone have done mistakes.

This song taught me, all the hurts that we have, we should not ignore it, instead we should learn from it and keep moving on with life. We should not hope for something or someone would come and save us from our self or our circumstances, we should save our self. The last line reminds us that not everyone can be expected to be the same with the rest of people.

We're explorers in space, just like when we go on tour. We're leaving our home life behind, and I guess it kind of ties into 'Leave Out All the Rest', in that we have to leave things behind in order to do something better. - Joe Hahn

LYRICS

I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here

So if you're asking me
I want you to know

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what I made
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you

Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are