You bring your own interpretation to the song.' In the case of most of these songs, I think Chester (Bennington) is coming from a certain place, I'm coming from my own experience, and on top of that, there are oftentimes metaphor and maybe a third read. In other words, we lead you to a certain point in the road and we say, 'Okay, the rest of it is your call. You know, to be honest, we get the songs to a certain point, and once we put out our record, it's up to the fans to decide how the song gets finished. It got us into the conversation, 'What does it mean for somebody to bring their own story to a song?' Ever since then, I think we've been a little more careful about telling people what it means. I thought it was about something completely different.' For him, it kind of took away from the song a little bit, because he had believed that his version of it was what it was about, and knowing that it was about something else was really jarring for him. After the interview, Rob said to me, 'You know, man, I never even knew what that song was about. I think that came from a few years ago, I was doing an interview with our drummer Rob and we were talking about a song from Meteora, our second album, and the writer we were speaking to asked about the lyrical content and I told him what the song was about. I think for us, the lyrics of the songs are whatever you want to take out of them. By the time he had even finished with our notes, I had brought back the guitars that belonged. Luckily, our mixing studio was like twenty minutes away from our recording studio, so I just drove down the street, tracked the guitars, brought them back, and Brad was sitting there with our mixer. We were mixing the song and we realized, 'This song isn't as bold or as big as it's supposed to sound.' We thought all the sounds were there, but they weren't. For us, on every album, we've gotten to that point and said, 'We still want to tweak things and make them a little better.' On this one, we actually changed the words of one bridge entirely and we added guitar on a song where they didn't even exist before. Mixing is where you take the tracks and you kind of organize them and present them for your final album. MS: On LIVING THINGS, just to give you an example, during the mixing process - for the people who are less familiar with mixing and recording an album, you should be done writing by the time you get to mixing.

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