Linkin Park: Points of Authority Meaning

Song Released: 2002

Points of Authority Lyrics

Forfeit the game / Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame
Cover up your face / You can't run the race
The pace is too fast / You just won't last

You love the way I look at you
While taking pleasure in the...

1. 1TOP RATED

   #1 top rated interpretation:
   anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Apr 28th 2009 !⃝

   I've always thought that this song could be about someone puutting someone else down,telling them to give up.They put down person enjoys seeing the other's pain and thrives off of it.The main person's life is completely ruined and miserable because of this.

2. 2TOP RATED

   #2 top rated interpretation:
   caljehu

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Oct 21st 2008 !⃝

   It's about you being with someone who suffered, abused from the past and now he/she wants you to experience it from him/her...
   that person could be an abusive parent or a psycho boyfriend/girlfriend I don't know, but that's how it goes...

3. 3TOP RATED

   #3 top rated interpretation:
   anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Jul 17th 2011 !⃝

   Personally, i think it's for Chester's step father, who sexually abused him as a child.
4. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Aug 24th 2020 !⃝

   I don't have much to say but rather a topic others can build off of. Linkin Park wasn't just a group of musicians that worked together. They were a band. They were best friends. Think about that for a second. Then put yourself in their shoes and think about how they must have felt when Chester took his own life. What do you have to say to that?
   
   Yeah. That's what I thought.
5. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   May 24th 2018 !⃝

   It is about Chester being sexually abused
6. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Feb 28th 2015 !⃝

   I always felt this song was about a teen and a parent, and the teen lashing out at them for the parent never listening to them and trying to live their dreams through them
7. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Feb 10th 2014 !⃝

   It reminds me of some psychic attacks done by an energy vampire who does'nt know what they are doin, he/she has some issues maybe some complex self esteem issues, and he/she has been hurt in the past and wants 2 hurt someone the current victim, maybe out of jealousy, by putting them down and trespassing against them via psychic attack and they are taking their energy and the victim realizes what's happening and through pain gains exp.
   RYJUS

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
8. chaoschick

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Oct 16th 2011 !⃝

   I think that this song has a little bit of a masochistic emotion flowing through it.
   
   This song is about being abused, probably in a relationship. However, the song is not talking about LEAVING. It just mentions the putting down, the humiliation, and the hopelessness. Yet it almost sounds as if there is a bit of forgiveness too.
   
   "You like to think you're never wrong
   You want to act like you're someone
   You want someone to hurt like you
   You want to share what you've been through"
   
   The abuser seems to have gone through the same things that they are now inflicting upon the abusee.
   
   Just to say, My favorite part is this:
   
   "You love the things I say I'll do -
   The way I'll hurt myself again just to get back at you
   You take away when I give in
   My life
   My pride is broken"
   
   
   Beautifully sad.
9. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Aug 8th 2011 !⃝

   i think this song is about someone in a fake position of power who abuses this power by preying on those who are weaker. to me the person thinks he or she is always right and is stubbornly stuck in his or her own faulty destructive ways
10. anonymous

    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

    click a star to vote

    Dec 30th 2010 !⃝

    i think this song is talking about someone trying to provoke the lead singer Chester in the past and Chester wrote it to express the bad feeling he had felt.
11. anonymous

    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

    click a star to vote

    Dec 28th 2010 !⃝

    Someone who has been through suffering and now wants the other person to feel the same way
12. ivansama

    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

    click a star to vote

    Jan 9th 2010 !⃝

    it's about how you do things you don't believe in for the one you love and how they take advantage of that.
    "You love the way I look at you
    While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through "
13. anonymous

    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

    click a star to vote

    Nov 17th 2008 !⃝

    I think this song is about an unhealthy relationship, either with a girl/boy friend, parent and child, etc.

Latest Articles

• 
  A new era for Millennial favorite, Linkin Park
• 
  Anime to watch for the soundtracks… and other reasons you’re undateable
• 
  Dolly, we need you
• 
  The Stranger Things Effect: How new media is drawing Gen Z and Alpha's attention to aging media
• 
  The most underrated soundtrack of the early 2000s
• 
  Buy the Soundtrack, Skip the Movie: Brainscan (1994)