Released March 16, 2004 Recorded 2002–03 Length 2:55 | Format CD Genre Nu metal
rap metal Label Warner Bros. | |
"Lying from You" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park, released on March 16, 2004. It was released as an airplay-only single from their second album, Meteora, which was released on March 25, 2003.
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Song information
The song opens up with a viola-influenced keyboard sample that leads into it being looped throughout certain verses. It also contains a sample of a car burning out. The song was one of seven Linkin Park songs used in the collaboration between the band and rapper Jay-Z ("Dirt off Your Shoulder/Lying from You") on the mash-up album Collision Course released in November 2004. It has also been sampled, rather less glamorously, by the British comedian Bill Bailey during his "coffee shop emo" routine.
In live shows of 2008, "Lying from You" used a new intro, removing all samples from the intro and first half of the first verse.
Interview with Mike Shinoda, March 2003 ShoutWeb:
Music video
Live footage of the song from Linkin Park's live album Live in Texas has been used as the music video. The live version of the song was used in internet versions of the video. This live video is available on iTunes, along with "Points of Authority". A video featuring clips from the band's later songs, "From the Inside" and "In the End's" music videos can be seen on YouTube.
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Chart performance
"Lying from You" was released as an airplay-only single from the album. It was released only in the United States in 2004, and in Canada as a live music video with footage from Live in Texas. For being an airplay-only single, it still managed to reach #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, giving the band their fourth consecutive #1 from the Meteora album. It came close to also achieving that feat on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent five weeks at #2. It also managed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked at #58, spending 18 weeks on the chart.