While driving home from class this morning, I found myself thinking about what we had discussed in class. Then on the radio I heard Linkin Park's "Crawling" and I love this song. But hearing after this class made me realize more about the song than I ever thought was in the lyrics. I've known that the song has many deeper issues in it than what may be heard on first listen, but this was the first time that I actually thought about how the words could be describing the feelings that some of the essays were trying to portray. I think that it relates very well to "Mirrors" and this maybe because in the video for the song, in which a girl is examining herself in the mirror. She seems much more than her actual reflection. She sees all the things about her which she hates and which are haunting her. What I find really interesting though is how the song was written by a man and yet the video was portraying the underlying issues of how a woman sees herself. I found that the lyrics are really personal but something that I found myself saying "Me too, Me too" so here they are:

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real
There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming/confusing
This lack of self-control I fear is never-ending
Controlling/I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
Without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced
That theres just too much pressure to take
I've felt this way before
So insecure
Discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me
Distracting/reacting
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection
It's haunting how I can't seem...