No More Sorrow

"No More Sorrow"
Song by Linkin Park
from the album Minutes To Midnight
Working title:	Ebow Idea / Ebow
Recorded:	2006 - 2007
Format:	Digital, Cassete, CD, Vinyl, DVD
Length:	03:41
Stems:	Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock (Reprise/Warner Track Pack)
Time signature:	12/8
Tempo:	132
Key:	Eb Minor
Live debut:	March 14, 2007
Last performed:	September 25, 2011
Writer:	Linkin Park
Producer:	Mike Shinoda, Rick Rubin
Label:	Warner Bros.
Minutes To Midnight tracklist
Wake Given Up Leave Out All The Rest Bleed It Out Shadow Of The Day What I've Done Hands Held High No More Sorrow Valentine's Day In Between In Pieces The Little Things Give You Away

"No More Sorrow" is the eighth track off of Linkin Park's third studio album, Minutes To Midnight.

Background

The limited edition booklet for Minutes To Midnight provided some insight into the song's creation. "While the band was recording at the Laurel studio, Rick suggested that Brad try adding ebow to “The Little Things Give You Away.” The ebow is a hand-held device that vibrates guitar strings by generating an electric pulse. Although Brad ultimately decided not to add ebow to “The Little Things,” his experimentation produced the introductory sound around which “No More Sorrow” was built. Originally titled “Ebow Idea,” “No More Sorrow” was loosely constructed that same night, though the band went back and cut the song live on their last day at Laurel." Chester Bennington cited "No More Sorrow" as an example of the depth that could be found on Minutes To Midnight, and Rob Bourdon called it the heaviest song on the album.

The April 2007 issue of a French magazine published a track by track of Minutes To Midnight on which Chester said (loosely translated from English to French and back to English), "The guitar part is very powerful. There is a sample of my authorship in the texture of the song. In our studio, the ventilation system once broke down, I decided to take a flashlight and look inside the pipe. The flashlight clung to the edges of the hole in the pipe, like the blows of swords. Mike wanted to sample this sound in the song."

In the Making of Minutes To Midnight DVD, there is a scene near the end that shows Linkin Park finishing the album at NRG, the studio in North Hollywood, CA where a majority of their music was recorded. Mike and Chester explain that the inside joke with the band was that someone would say the album was finally completed by announcing "...and we're done!" before then having someone record another part. The DVD shows Mike explaining that after Chester had left the studio for the day, Mike noticed that just one word was not doubled on a vocal take and that he couldn't just copy it over on the computer from another take. He had to call Chester to come back to the studio to record the one word, which ended up being the very end of "No More Sorrow." Chester joked that he wouldn't believe the album was fully completed until he could buy it in a store. This was the last part of the album recorded by the band before the strings were recorded, until they decided to write "What I've Done".

Remix

An 8-bit version of "No More Sorrow" was created for inclusion in 8-Bit Rebellion!, and the intro and bridge of the 8-bit rendition were used as ringtones.

Versions

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

Studio

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
No More Sorrow	Minutes To Midnight 8-Bit Rebellion!	3:41	2006-2007	May 14, 2007
No More Sorrow	Minutes To Midnight Instrumentals	3:49	2006-2007		The CD dates from May 24, 2007. Official instrumental version.

Remix

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
No More Sorrow (8 Bit Rebellion Version)	8-Bit Rebellion! Ringtones	0:31	2010	April 17, 2010	8-bit version. Intro only.
No More Sorrow (8 Bit Rebellion Version)	8-Bit Rebellion! Ringtones	0:30	2010	April 17, 2010	8-bit version. Bridge only.
No More Sorrow (8-Bit)	8-Bit Rebellion!	3:42	2010	April 26, 2010	Full 8-bit version.

Live

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
No More Sorrow	Minutes To Midnight (MVI Disc) Shadow Of The Day	3:40	March, 2007	May 14, 2007	Downloadable video on the Minutes To Midnight MVI disc. Audio released on the "Shadow Of The Day" single as "No More Sorrow (Third Encore Session)" on October 16, 2007.
No More Sorrow (Live At AOL Sessions)	Minutes To Midnight (BestBuy Edition)	3:44	March 14, 2007	May 14, 2007	Downloadable MP3.
No More Sorrow (Live)	No More Sorrow (Live)	3:45	March, 2007	2007	Warner Bros Promo CD.
No More Sorrow (11/18/07 LP Live Shanghai)	Minutes To Midnight (Asian Tour Edition)	3:55	November 18, 2007	November 21, 2007	Downloadable MP3. Download codes expired on December 17, 2008.
No More Sorrow	LP Underground 7.0	5:13	August 21, 2007	December 5, 2007	Recorded live at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto, ON, Canada on August 21, 2007.
No More Sorrow (Live)	Champs Sports USB Wristband	3:58	August 22, 2007	July 16, 2008	Censored. MP3 128kbps file titled "No More Sorrow (Live-Detroit)".
No More Sorrow	Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes	5:06	June 29, 2008	November 21, 2008	Filmed at the National Bowl, Milton Keynes June 29, 2008.
No More Sorrow	Live In Red Square	5:31	June 23, 2011	July 21, 2011	Released as a prize for the "Iridescent" "Super-Fun Trading Fun-Cards" game. After all six cards were collected, the person could enter the codes of each card at linkinpark.com to get a free download of the full show.
No More Sorrow (Live From Taipei, 2009)	Minutes To Midnight - Live Around The World	4:57	August 13, 2009	June 12, 2012

Live

"No More Sorrow" was a major part of the Minutes To Midnight touring cycle setlists. Both this song and "Given Up" were performed under their working titles during band rehearsals in March 2007, "No More Sorrow" being performed as "Ebow". It was the first song to get its live debut from the album, it being the first new song in the setlist at the first show in the cycle at Berlin, Germany ("Given Up" and "What I've Done" were also debuted live at that show, but came after "No More Sorrow"). For much of the promotional touring in Europe, "No More Sorrow" was featured near the beginning of the set. Starting at the show in Rock im Park, Brad began to perform an extended guitar intro tease to the song at various shows. When the band began rotating setlists on Projekt Revolution 2007, "No More Sorrow" was featured early in the set with a short intro in Set A and Set C, and opened the show with a longer version of the intro in Set B. The band created new setlists in the winter of 2008, with "No More Sorrow" being featured as the opener of Set R with its long intro, early in the set with its long intro in Set S, and with a short intro transitioning out of "Faint" in Set T. Near the end of the Minutes To Midnight North American Tour, the song was dropped from a few setlists due to Chester being sick. The song did return by the end of the tour, however. The band introduced more new setlists on the second Minutes To Midnight European Tour that year, with the song being featured early on in Set X with its long intro, early in Set Y with its short intro transitioning out of "Faint", and opening the show in Set Z. On Projekt Revolution, the song's position stayed the same but featured the Street Drum Corps on the song during performances of Set Z. The song was performed early in the set with its long intro throughout 2009.

The song was the only non-single from Minutes To Midnight to return to live sets during the A Thousand Suns touring cycle. The song was featured mid-set with its long intro throughout the entire cycle. Along with "One Step Closer", "Crawling", and "Given Up", the song was dropped at the band's performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards, but was featured in every other setlist of the cycle.

The song did not make it into any setlists on the Living Things touring cycle, but returned briefly during The Hunting Party touring cycle, where its guitar intro was featured in the extended intro for "Until It's Gone" on the European Festival tour in 2014. The intro was dropped on subsequent tours, meaning "No More Sorrow" did not make any other appearances on the tour. The song was rehearsed for the Carnivores Tour, but did not make it into the setlists.

In a Facebook chat in 2013, Bourdon stated that "No More Sorrow" is his second favorite song to play live, behind "Somewhere I Belong".

Variations

Last Updated: December 25, 2015

Type	Description	First Played	Last Played
Intro	Brad Tease Intro	June 2, 2007	July 17, 2007
Intro	Short Intro	July 25, 2007	August 24, 2008
Intro	Long Intro	July 29, 2007	September 25, 2011
Intro	Street Drum Corps Intro: Train/Tailpipe	July 19, 2008	August 21, 2008

Live Guests

Last Updated: December 25, 2015

• Street Drum Corps

Personnel

• Chester Bennington
• Mike Shinoda
• Brad Delson
• Dave "Phoenix" Farrell
• Joseph Hahn
• Rob Bourdon

Production

• Produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda
• Engineers: Dana Neilsen, Andrew Schelps, and Ethan Mates
• Engineer Assisting: Phillip Broussard, Jr.
• Mixing: Neal Avron
• Mixing Assisting: Nicolas Fournier and George Gumbs
• Mastering: Dave Collins

Lyrics

Album Version

Are you lost / In your lies
Do you tell to yourself I don't realize
Your crusade's a disguise
Replaced freedom with fear / You trade money for lives
I'm aware of what you've done

No / no more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your / Time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced

I see pain / I see need
I see liars and thieves abuse power with greed
I had hope / I believed
But I'm beginning to think that I've been decieved
You will pay for what you've done

No / No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your / Time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced

Thieves and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites
Thieves and hypocrites

No / No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your / Time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced

No more sorrow
I've paid for your mistakes
Your / Time is borrowed
Your time has come to be replaced
Your time has come to be replaced
Your time has come to be erased

Gallery

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  No More Sorrow (Live) promo CD

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  DVD artwork

In Other Media

• "No More Sorrow" is featured in the 2007 videogame Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock.
• "No More Sorrow" (in both studio and 8-bit versions) is featured in Linkin Park's 2010 videogame 8-Bit Rebellion!.

Cover Versions

Brazilian pop singer Luan Santana played a short instrumental version of "No More Sorrow" as an intro to his shows from 2012 to 2013.