I've always thought that every song has a story of its own but especially thought a metal song has more. I had listened these songs just for music before Chester died but then , ı started to listen its lyrics and saw how they showed us the end but we couldn't see. In 2007 , when the Numb and What I've done published we could see a impression of pressure and a man , who couldn't be what he really want to be. For example :
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
( Numb )
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done
( What I've done )
And in 2009 , when the In The End published , its lyrics showed us more than before :
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
Like he had been thought about the problems but decided to not care about them because he was thinking about the end.
And in 2012 , when the Castle Of Glass published , we can say that he was looking for a remedy maybe , wanted to revive himself :
Bring me home in a blinding dream,
Through the secrets that I have seen
Wash the sorrow from off my skin
And show me how to be whole again
Come near to last times , in 2017 , when the One More Light published we can see more and more things :
Who cares if one more light goes out
In the sky of a million stars?
It flickers, flickers.
Who cares when someone's time runs out
If a moment is all we are?
Or quicker, quicker.
Who cares if one more light goes out?
Well, I do.
I think , he was thinking about his existence in other peoples life but found nothing for answer.
And the last one i want to say is ' Heavy ' , the song that published 4 months before his dead and this song tells about his fatigue and tedium i think.
All i meant is that we should've seen that but we couldn't. These songs , words and his feelings in his voice showed us the possible end but we didn't consider it like a real life story ,just listened it and maybe some of us thought that this words are written for us but nobody could thought that maybe these words written for himself or for his life.
So , the reason why i always say especially metal or rock songs have a story of their own is this. These are my ideas and thank you for reading :)