Hit The Floor

This song is about a typical victim of someone with antisocial personality disorder.

Generally when dealing with these types of people for a long time, a victim (usually a spouse or child) has been brainwashed by the abuser.

At this point (referring to this song)the victim realizes that he/she has known all along that everything that their victimizer says is only well placed. Which means they lie about their abusive behavior to the victim to cover their ass, but there are so many inconsistencies with their abusers web of lies that they have finally chosen to extricate themselves from this abusive relationship and are waiting for them to self-destruct.

This quote in particular is standard for a person who has been a victim of mental abuse (mental abuse goes along with all other forms of abuse...that's how a molester is able to commit repeated acts....or why a woman comes back for another beating. If someone just beat you, you would leave and never come back. Please remember that sociopaths are very subtle, and very good at manipulation.) Lyric:

And I protect you out of courtesy Too many times that I've Held on when I needed to push away Afraid to say what was on my mind Afraid to say what I need to say

Mental abusers convince the victim to cover for them through manipulation, but if that child would just "say what was on his mind/what he needed to" the abuser would have been found out, but the child fears this or is brainwashed into thinking his abuse is normal behavior and no one would help anyway.

Also this next lyric is classic also: Things that you said about me When I'm not around You think havin the upper hand Means you got to keep puttin me down

Generally people who are abusing a person has their victim in a position of dependency. They hold things like money, sex, security over their victims so that they fear loosing this abuser because they 'need' them. They also say bad things about you like "she's such a needy bitch" or "he's such a unruly child." (this makes them look like the victim) Hmm I wonder why he's unruly...it could be that you molest him 3 days a week and convince him it's normal and even if it wasn't no one really cares...

Again, victim's believe their abuser's lies: So many people like me Put so much trust in all your lies

And this song is about the victim's breaking point. They can not make sense of the lies and abuse anymore so they want out: I know I'll never trust a single thing you say You knew your lies would divide us But you lied anyway And all the lies have Got you floating up above us all (most sociopaths have people convinced they are good by using a front of lies) But what goes up has got to fall (a very nice double entendre if I may say so myself)

This song is more complex than just a bad person getting what they should in the end. I have to just asume Chester being abused as a child and then making it out of the shit effects this song heavily. Actually many of LP's lyrics refer to sociopaths and the damage they cause. Even the songs where it's about him becoming them. All a victim knows is lies and so they start to mimic their abusers thought pattern because they think this is the only way the world works. Molested people become molesters...not Chester though! He left his abuser in the freaking dust!

i think this song is awesome and its interpreted differently by different people so maybe they (linkin park) made it one of those songs that was meant to be taken differently and fit different people? but anyway heres my interpretation of it. its about someone who was being nice to someone because they felt sorry for them, but that person thought because everyone was being nice to him he was all that, and started being a jerk to everyone, and everything was going to his head, then he realized no one likes him, and thats when he falls.

dood, anyone making fun of emo or emo type music, should fucking shutup, becuz all music is emotional in some way or other, so stop listening to these types of music or music like it, and go listen to mindless bullshit and comment about that shit. right, there is a point where emo gets too emo, such as panic at the disco or some other shit. but sooner or later you'll grow up and fucking realize that everyone has feelings, even the fucking high and mighty stereotypical male guy has fucking feelings. are you man enough? if u dont realize that, then you've had a pretty fuct up upbringing and are gonna go bonkers cuz everyone has to let some steam off once in awhile.

What I love about Linkin Park is that they have songs like this, which are mostly to angrily screaming about shit, and songs like Valentines Day, My December that are really intelligent and well crafted music. They have the best of both worlds.

This song is about somone who treats this person wrong and they allow it cause they dont want to hurt them but they are fed up with this so they are waiting until that whole '' whats goes around comes around '' effect happens .. god , this song is so true ..

sadly, this song fits PERFECTLY with what's been going on with me and my "best friend" of 6 years

I think that this song is about someone whos close friend is lieing to be better then his/her friends like rumors or making people believe that there something there not.

I agree with Nikkie. I think this is Linkin Park's best song

just got the CD yesterday and i thkn that this is the best song on the CD (next to faint) and i second what Nikkie said :-)

The song to me, is about two good friends who after a gradual loss of mutual trust and friendship throughout the years, flip out on each other one day and one is crushed (socially, not physically) under the other.