Get Me Gone

"Get Me Gone"
Song by Fort Minor from the album The Rising Tied
Recorded	2005
Released	November 22, 2005
Format	Digital, CD, Vinyl
Length	1:56
References	Handsome Modeling Boy School - Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) (feat. DJ Quest & DJ Shadow)
Writer	Mike Shinoda
Producer	Mike Shinoda
Label	Machine Shop Recordings, Warner Bros. Records
The Rising Tied track listing Introduction Remember The Name (Feat. Styles Of Beyond) Right Now (Feat. Black Thought and Styles Of Beyond) Petrified Feel Like Home (Feat. Styles Of Beyond) Where'd You Go (Feat. Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga) In Stereo Back Home (Feat. Common and Styles Of Beyond) Cigarettes Believe Me (Feat. Styles Of Beyond and Eric Bobo) Get Me Gone High Road (Feat. John Legend) Kenji Red To Black (Feat. Jonah Matranga, Kenna and Styles Of Beyond) The Battle (Feat. Celph Titled) Slip Out The Back (Feat. Mr. Hahn)

Background

In late 2006, Clear Channel Music posted the entire The Rising Tied album complete with commentaries from Mike Shinoda before each song. On "Get Me Gone", he said, "‘Get Me Gone’ is a funny song, because a lot of Linkin Park fans can relate to the stories in it. I remember when we were first getting started there was a guy in our label, who, although he really wanted to understand the band, he just kinda… there were certain times that he just didn’t get it and he wanted us to have a gimmick, uhm, he wanted our DJ to wear a cowboy hat and a lab coat, for example, as a gimmick. He didn’t like my rapping, he wanted us to be more straight-ahead rock band, all stuff that you know, just didn’t make sense for us, it’s not who we are, so lucky for us, the things worked out as far as we put out a record after that and it did well, uh, that way now we get to do what we want to do on the record. Uhm, also there was a time, when people said, that the band was manufactured, and obviously that’s ridiculous, you know, we’ve know each other for years and years and we make all this music, you know, we write all this stuff ourselves, so, I just wanted to address those things in a song. "

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Get Me Gone	The Rising Tied	1:56	2005	November 22, 2005	Features vocals by John Legend. Contains a reference to Handsome Boy Modeling School's "Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) (feat. DJ Quest & DJ Shadow)".
Get Me Gone	The Rising Tied (Non-PA Version)	1:56	2005	November 22, 2005	Different vocal take. Different lyrics.
Get Me Gone	Instrumental Album: The Rising Tied	1:38	2005		Official instrumental version.

Lyrics

Album Version

"The dude, he said that, like, when we were making the first Linkin Park record He was like, 'Yeah you know, I don't know about the rapping like, I don't know if it's... maybe you should just be a rock band.' You know what I mean, like, trying to change us, Like they signed us as an act, like what we sound like, and then he's like (Yeah) 'Oh I don't know maybe you should just play keyboard'." Before the first song that you heard me on, There were people already tryin' to get me gone, Tellin' me to quit rapping, just play the keys, that "My band had a singer", "They didn't need me", But my band had my back, So we did the tracks, put out the album, And the talk went flat, It was funny at first, but then the humour faded, When some magazines printed that our label made us, We were too be good to be true, Some were saying ghost writers were writin' all that we do, So we had to disprove it, we spelled it out, To the detail, how we do it, when we're making this music, After that I made it a rule: I only do e-mail responses to print interviews, Because these people love to put a twist to your words, To infer that you said something fucking absurd. Oh, did I lose you at 'infer'? Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words? People used to 'infer' that we were manufactured, Now I've got the interviews on file, Which people said what, which number to dial, So now every enemy screaming insanity, All they're ever gonna be's another big fan of me, (Bitch!) (*Laughter*) "Can you believe that? Like that's crazy, It sounds crazy right, like this point, At this point you're thinking...you hear that you're like, 'That guy..is out of his mind!', But honestly at that point... Like besides the fact he wanted me to just play keyboards or whatever, Didn't want me to rap..he was like 'Maybe Joe Hahn..should, um...wear a lab coat, and a cowboy hat on stage', Like when we play? ('yo?!') I swear to god he was crazy! ('So Joe..in a cowboy hat?!') Yeah, and later on he claimed he wrote all our songs, So yeah..that was..that was really nice."

Non-PA Version

"The dude, he said that, like, when we were making the first Linkin Park record He was like, 'Yeah you know, I don't know about the rapping like, I don't know if it's... maybe you should just be a rock band.' You know what I mean, like, trying to change us, Like they signed us as an act, like what we sound like, and then he's like (Yeah) 'Oh I don't know maybe you should just play keyboard'." Before the first song that you heard me on, There were people already tryin' to get me gone, Tellin' me to quit rapping, just play the keys, that "My band had a singer", "They didn't need me", But my band had my back, So we did the tracks, put out the album, And the talk went flat, It was funny at first, but then the humour faded, When some magazines printed that our label made us, We were too be good to be true, Some were saying ghost writers were writin' all that we do, So we had to disprove it, we spelled it out, To the detail, how we do it, when we're making this music, After that I made it a rule: I only do e-mail responses to print interviews, Because these people love to put a twist to your words, To infer that you said something that was absurd. Oh, did I lose you at 'infer'? Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words? People used to 'infer' that we were manufactured, Now I've got the interviews on file, Which people said what, which number to dial, So now every enemy screaming insanity, All they're ever gonna be's another big fan of me, (Yeah!) (*Laughter*) "Can you believe that? Like that's crazy, It sounds crazy right, like this point, At this point you're thinking...you hear that you're like, 'That guy..is out of his mind!', But honestly at that point... Like besides the fact he wanted me to just play keyboards or whatever, Didn't want me to rap..he was like 'Maybe Joe Hahn..should, um...wear a lab coat, and a cowboy hat on stage', Like when we play? ('yo?!') I swear to god he was crazy! ('So Joe..in a cowboy hat?!') Yeah, and later on he claimed he wrote all our songs, So yeah..that was..that was really nice."