[00:14.486][Verse 1: Mike Shinoda][00:14.487]Someone, right now, is leaving their apartment[00:16.957]Looking down at the street and wondering where their car went[00:19.532]Someone in the car, sitting at a signal[00:21.567]In front of a restaurant, staring through the window[00:24.097]At someone, right now, with their finger in their teeth[00:26.397]Who could use a little floss, right across the street[00:28.712]There's somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket[00:31.253]Spent half the rent, at a bar getting plastered[00:33.729]Now, he's gotta walk fourteen blocks[00:36.128]Just to work at a shop where he's about to get fired[00:38.486]Someone, right now, is looking pretty tired[00:40.908]Staring at a laptop, trying to get inspired[00:43.250]Somebody living right across the street[00:45.620]Just wrote the best thing that she's written all week[00:47.950]But her best friend's coughing up blood in the sink[00:50.093]He can't even think what happened, feeling so confused[00:52.808]That he knows it looks bad, but there's nothing he could do[00:55.063]I wonder what's it like being right there in his shoes, but...[00:58.024][Chorus: Mike Shinoda][00:58.115]Yo, I'm just taking it in[00:59.811]Out the window of a hotel bedroom, again[01:02.146]Tomorrow, I'll be gone, I don't know when I'll be back[01:04.482]But in this world, everything can change just like that[01:06.973][Verse 2: Ryu][01:11.932]Yo, somebody, right now, is dropping his vote[01:14.403]Inside a box and trying not to get shot in his throat[01:16.491]For the act of freedom, right now, somebody stuck in Iraq[01:19.520]Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing[01:21.442]In a war where he's not really sure of the reasons[01:23.879]So, we show our support when the press mislead him[01:26.288]Though we mourn, remain proud and salute the troops[01:28.684]Get some, I know you boys got some work to do[01:30.958][Verse 3: Tak][01:31.095]Meanwhile, right now someone's twenty-five to life[01:33.601]And standing on the corner with their thumb up, hitch hike[01:35.999]And scratching of a lotto ticket, hoping for a real winner[01:38.594]Sneaking through the border just to work and eat a real dinner[01:40.831]Right now, someone wishes they were you and I[01:43.157]Instead of second guessing fatal thoughts of quiet suicide[01:45.375]But right now, staring out the window at a fiend[01:47.925]With holes in his arms and holes in his jeans[01:50.389]He pulled out a cigarette and sparked a light[01:52.709]And walked right around the corner, just out of my sight, but..[01:55.271][Chorus: Ryu & Tak][01:55.624]Yo, I'm just taking it in[01:57.356]From a second story hotel window, again[01:59.649]The TV's on and my bags are packed[02:02.122]But in this world, everything can change just like that[02:09.449]Yo, I'm just taking it in[02:11.643]From a second story hotel window, again[02:14.128]The TV's on and my bags are packed[02:16.601]But in this world, everything can change just like that[02:23.866][Verse 4: Black Thought][02:24.125]Right now, somebody's sitting in the darkness[02:26.466]Trying to figure how to put some heat in their apartment[02:28.747]But they got a little mattress, a little carpet[02:31.266]And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench[02:33.617]You see them when you rushing to get to the office[02:36.002]Wife fly by when she coming home from the market[02:38.707]Right now, somebody's coming out the pocket[02:40.845]Trying to dump that rock, they run around the block with[02:43.414]Same time, the cops is raising their Glock's[02:45.642]With aim to fill your legs and your back with some hot shit[02:48.440]Right now, somebody's struggling to stop this man[02:50.672]Who's kicking and punching and cussing at the doctors[02:53.024]Down the hall, the child taking his first breath[02:55.232]The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet[02:57.645]Yo, I wonder if he understand what it's worth yet[03:00.072]Like time spent, while we're on the earth, yeah[03:02.310]The answer to the question we all seek[03:04.601]Can be found, it depends on how free ya'll think[03:07.008]Right now, it's somebody who ain't eat all week[03:09.354]That would kill for the shit you throw away in the street[03:11.699]I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure[03:14.273]One man's pain is the next man's pleasure[03:16.785]One say infinity, the next say forever[03:19.137]Right now, err'body gotta get it together, man[03:21.805][Chorus: Black Thought & Mike Shinoda][03:22.090]Uh, I'm just taking it in[03:23.840]In an another strange hotel lobby, again[03:26.289]Put my luggage on my back, I don't know where I'm at[03:28.621]I'm in a world where it all changes, just like that[03:36.065]Yeah, I'm just taking it in[03:38.062]Out the window of a hotel bedroom, again[03:40.573]Tomorrow, I'll be gone, I don't know when I'll be back[03:42.977]But in this world, everything can change just like that