"Not Alone" is the first track on the compilation album Download To Donate For Haiti.
Background
"Not Alone" is one of the thirty "close to final form" songs from the Minutes To Midnight album sessions. However, it wasn't completed until they worked on it in January 2010. "Not Alone" was taken from its demo form and finished, complete with rewritten lyrics, in less than one day.
In an interview with MTV on January 19, 2010, Mike said, "We had a demo [for 'Not Alone'] — the music was laid out, we had done the song a little while ago ... we just never used it because we never thought it was done. [After the tragedy in Haiti], we listened to the demo again, essentially scrapped all the words, rewrote the words ... when you've got that idea and emotional charge in you and you put that in the lyrics, for me it does make better lyrics. There's an authenticity and a passion that you can hear in Chester's voice on this track; we literally wrote [the new lyrics] via e-mail, before he had flown out from Arizona to L.A. [to record them]."
On Loveline on January 28, 2010, Brad said, "This was a track that we originally worked on with Rick Rubin during the Minutes To Midnight sessions, and one of our favorites, and it unfortunately didn't make it on the album, but fortunately we had it on a semi-finished form and Mike and Chester really were burning midnight oil. They rewrote the lyrics to kind of express their emotions about what happened to Haiti and remixed the song, got it ready for this compilation in about 24 hours and I think it's actually better... I'm actually sure it's better than the early version. We're really really proud of it."
The song was released on January 19, 2010 as the first song on the Download To Donate For Haiti album.
Tracklist
Digital Single
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1 | Not Alone | Linkin Park | 4:12 |
Music Video
Versions
Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.
Title | Album | Length | Recorded | Released | Notes |
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Not Alone | Download To Donate For Haiti
Not Alone |
4:12 | 2006-2010 | January 19, 2010 |
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Personnel
Lyrics
I break down / Fear is sinking in
The cold comes / Racing through my skin
Searching for / A way to get to you
Through the storm / You
Go / Giving up your home
Go / Leaving all you've known
You are not alone
With arms up / Stretched into the sky
With eyes like / Echoes in the night
Hiding from / The hell that you've been through
Silent one / You
Go / Giving up your home
Go / Leaving all you've known
You / Go / Giving up your home
Go / Leaving all you've known
You are not alone
You / Go / Giving up your home
Go / Leaving all you've known
And you / Go / Giving up your home
Go / You are not unknown
You are not alone
You are not unknown
Oh oh oh
You are not alone
Gallery
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2010 cover
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2011 digital single
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Download To Donate For Haiti