Linkin Park: In The End Meaning
Song Released: 2001
In The End Lyrics
One thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme to explain in due time
(All I know)
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings...
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It tells you how somebody possibly a gf or close friend took advantage of him and his time. "Watch the time go right out the window, wasted it all didn't even know I just had to etch you go." he suffered a tramatic experience with the person
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okay from what i can tell and i've had to listen to it four times. it details how you shouldn't let the good things in life go by take them and enjoy it while you have it. the it starts with 'one thing i don't know why it doesn't even matter how hard you try.' tells about life in general. and this whole song details life faith love hope all of these things. and this part 'i put my trust in you, pushed as far as i can go.' details Chester's trust in a friend being backfired onto him tenfold.
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I think all of these are great. The song has many meanings and there is no way to know for sure what the true meaning is. But for everyone it could be meant to strike up a memory in their life and make them reflect on it. So think what you want and you will be right.
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It means one of the two:
1. Killing venus and accepting jesus christ and believing in god. After which going high and "waking up" or
2. It is some satanic bullshit like the evil eye and so on.
it shows a statue with a crown or something similar, go figure it out. :). But in the end it really doesn't matter because you accept god and your previous life doesn't really matter. Have no idea about the statue. But at the end it really doesn't matter ;). It's about failing but after being persistent achieving the great light. Of course it includes cursing abandoning venus the loser associated with the failure and evil part in man. So in the end it doesn't really matter because you're successful and you're a new man. Hope humanity defeat evil forever, blessings to all. -
I think this song is about the failures a person encounters in his life. 'I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter', through these verses he wants to tell us that in this world what's important is the result and not your hardwork. He tried his best and also was nearing success but coudn't succeed. So in the end the journey doesn't even matter...
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For the longest time I could only guess what this song really meant.
Theres a lot of great interpretations out there. Here's mine:
It's about a relationship where the guy (or girl) is using the girl (or guy) The girl has strong feels and believes she can change him, and 'tries so hard' but ' in the end, it doesn't even matter' because all he was doing was using her.
The reason I believe it was like this. Is because a friend of mine was in a relationship like this and I feel the song really represents what happened.
Again thou there are a lot of great interpretations of this song! -
my interpretation is that he was spending the whole life chasing something that he finally found meaningless. When he realized it's meaningless, he was angry and felt being cheated by the rule. The Egyptian statue he stands on represents the rule of the world, apparently ruled by "cheaters". In contrast, the guy standing on the grass was enjoying every step he was moving and being friendly to the birds, fish and flowers. The life of this man is apparently the one that will matter in the end.
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at the end is it really going to matter if you did everything to love her and keep her alive is it going to matter that you kissed your mom everyday in case you died when your dead. does it matter that you put all your effort into making everyone happy and being everything they want you to be when in the end your all dead. nothing you do matters.
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We're in 2011 and I finally can totally relate to the meaning of these lyrics. At least this is what they mean to me. Rather it is about a gf or a friend is irrelevant, both hurts when you've tried so hard to make the relationship work, you've been there for them when they've been sick, when they've been low, even when they have been "mocking you", fought with you... you have opened up to them and made them your everything.
It takes a lot of time to get over something especially when you TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR (you may have reached a high peak of the relationship where everything seemed to be going really well)"pretending like he was their property"- so the person must have pretended to be really into him or involved in the relationship,, but still wasnt enough in the end. The person can change everything in just one sentence, one decision, where you have nothing to say. To me it seems like Chester has made this rhyme to create a memory of a time that he tried so hard, because the person did not leave him even with a single memory of this time, that meant so much to him and where he worked so hard to make the relationship work. On another note, he also explains why "I designed this rhyme to explain in due time" - so explaining it to people after he he is 'over it' but still looking back at it hurts. "In the end it doesn't even matter"- I believe he is saying no matter how hard you try and how far it seems you get in the end it still may not work out- and then you will have wasted all that time on what is currently LOST and NOTHING.
I dont understand why so many people are referring it to death because I do not see death in these lyrics, just a lesson learnt, a time that hurts me to look back at but in which he is trying to create a meaning to what has happened so that he can move on. "To explain in due time" could however, refer to an explanation to the people he has left on earth after his death (suicide), but not everything has to be about suicide, you know. even when depression is involved -
It seems that this song is describing the end of a passionate and possibly violent relationship. But maybe the relationship between a person and his personal relationship with himself. Waiting for the end to come, wishing I had strength to stand, this is not what I had planned-it's out of my control.---implies the someone has already taken steps to end their suffering.--"all I want to do-is trade this life for something new"--is an desperate attempt to let people-their loved ones-- know that it isn't because of them that they don't want to live.but their own inability to live with their personal mistakes or losses or both. Their own inability to 'cope', with their failures and fears.
"i know what it takes to move on" implies that they already know how hard it is to take ones own life. "i know how it feels to lie"- implies that they have been pretending for a long time and hiding their 'sadness'. The end of the song- 'picking up the pieces now where to begin" implies that either the attempt to 'escape' was unsuccessful. Perhaps a breakdown occurred and now he must "start again". A beautiful song that truly describes a broken heart and soul. I can see how all the other interpretations are founded as well. -
In my opinion I think the song means that everything you do in life or no matter how hard you try in life it doesn't pay off because when we die nothing matters you just lose in the end.
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I think it's about drug addiction. " it starts with one" . That's how addiction starts. It doesn't natter how hard u try , in the end it doesn't really matter. I had to fall to lose it all. These are classic feelings and results of addiction. That's what it reminds me of based on my experience. But even if you dont agree with me. It's such an awesome song.
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I think it`s about a relationship."Pushing me around like I was part of your property."means to me that she was using him and dumped him when she got what she wanted.
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This song is about his experiencie with drugs. ''I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesnt even matter'': that means it dont matter how hard you try, drugs will always beat you. Thats why it doesnt even matter.
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