I may be alone on this, but to me, this is more powerful than the finished version. That chorus... is just... beautiful. :)

"Just carry on, and miss me when I'm gone. Don't let anyone take my place." Never. You are a true legend Chester. May your memory live on.

Had tears in my ears on this part. " Tell them I couldn’t help myself And tell them I was alone Tell them I was the only one And there’s nothing that can stop me from going home "

I'm sorry but this is so much more incredible than the finished product

Goodbye, Chester. Nobody will take your place.

nobody will ever take your place, chester.

"till then carry on, and miss me when i'm gone" those lyrics have a completely deeper meaning now

[Verse 1: Mike and Chester] Like shining oil this night is dripping down Night is dripping down Glistening And I’m trying not to think what I’m leaving now Cause I'm leaving now It’s time you let me go Let me go [Chorus: Chester] 'Till then carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh don't let anyone give you away Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh don't let anyone take my place Take my place [Verse 2: Mike & chester] This tear between us is getting thinner now Getting thinner now Bittersweet And ‘cross that horizon this sun is setting now Slowly setting now It’s time to let me go Let me go [Chorus: Chester] 'Till then carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh don't let anyone give you away Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh don't let anyone take my place Take my place [Guitar solo] [Chorus, variation] Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh don't let anyone give you away Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh don't let anyone take my place Take my place [Bridge] Tell them I couldn’t help myself And tell them I was alone Tell them I was the only one And there’s nothing that can stop me from going home Tell them I couldn’t help myself And tell them I was alone Oh tell them I was the only one And there’s nothing that can stop me From going home!

This song sadly has a new bitter meaning. Even listening to the songs on One More Light. Like “Nobody Can Save Me” and “Sharp Edges.” I can’t fathom the pain he was expressing to us in his lyrics. But it’s sad that we can never know what a person really goes through, even our idols. I love you so much. Thank you for shaping my heart and soul through tough times. Rest In Peace Chester

Though Chester sang this song, Mike and Brad also involved in writing the lyrics. What pain are they expressing? Why can't we see their pain? Why are we remembering him so much? That's not love or maturity to write "he is remembering us from the dead", "he had been crying to us since ages". He lived life to his fullest, sharing his happiness to us and taking all our sadness. Why do we always cry in the comment section? Why can't we just move on and give a chance to our lives as well? Even I love Chester, may be much more than you guys do. We don't each other. We didn't know each other. Till I cared for him a lot. Linkin Park saves us from our hardest of times. Stop writing that over and over again. Expressing ourselves in social media and KZfaq isn't such a nice thing. Let's just practice beautiful things in person, like Chester always did. If you can play music, make some. Let the world listen and ease pain. Share some love with needy. Try to make your society crime free. Do something that makes you an inspiration.

Happy 48th Birthday Chester Always come back to this song remembering you

The lyrics in "i'll be gone" are a bit more powerful and way more simplified but here, the atmosphere, the instrumental part and the feelings impressed along with the music are incredible. I feel like sunshine in this track.

That moment when the demo is better than the finished version. I still liked the official version but I liked the experimental tone in this version. RIP Chester. meeting you was one of the best experiences I ever had. You were one of the most cool and down to earth guys I ever met. The world has not only lost a great singer but a great human being

Wish this was on Spotify.

Like shinning oil this night is dripping down Night is dripping down Glistening And I'm trying not to think what I'm leaving now 'Cause I'm leaving now It's time you let me go Let me go 'Til then carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh, don't let anyone give you away Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh, don't let anyone take my place Take my place This tear between us is getting thinner now Getting thinner now Bittersweet And 'cross that horizon this sun is setting now Slowly setting now It's time to let me go Let me go 'Til then carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh, don't let anyone give you away Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh, don't let anyone take my place Take my place Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh, don't let anyone give you away Just carry on And miss me when I'm gone Oh, don't let anyone take my place Take my place Tell them I couldn't help myself And tell them I was alone Tell them I was the only one And there's nothing that can stop me from going home Tell them I couldn't help myself And tell them I was alone Oh, tell them I was the only one And there's nothing that can stop me from going home! From going home! From going home! From going home! Oh, tell them I was the only one And there's nothing that can stop me From going home!

Words of this song are like hug from Chester to all heartbroken. Rest in peace.

I could preach about how THIS is the direction I think Linkin Park should take, but I'm not in the band making music with them. But i think this is the RIGHT direction to take the band in. It captures the feeling Meteora and MTM captured. It might not have the heaviness of HT but that's ok. That was a good album.

I personally love this version. I think it is a lot better than the original. I can see why they didn't use this in living things though, since it didn't really fit with the other songs on the album. But I still believe this is a much better version.

"There's nothing that can stop me from going home..." It's 2019 and that line still hurts :(

It's like he's speaking from the dead in this song....

This song is classic LP at their best. The whole reason I fell for LP's music is that they have this uplifting, awe-inspiring feeling. Think of P5hng Me Aw*y, Somewhere I belong, Shadow Of The Day, The Catalyst, Powerless, the kind of songs that lift you. Primo has this effect on me, this magic that only LP can make.

Much better than Living Things version

Chester, no one will ever take your place and no one can do this because you were such a beautiful and unqiue human being. I hope you are pain free now and in a better place without your demons. We all love you so much..

After hearing the news about Chester I came straight to this video. Beautiful song for a beautiful man. Rest In Peace. ❤

Can't carry on Chester, we just can't :( We miss you so much! Nobody will be able to take your place, because your place is carved deep in our hearts, the deepest, most protected part of our hearts :( I hope the place you are now it's better and more beautiful ^_^ And that you will find peace of mind there! Rest in peace my Hero, my Legend!

this version is infinitely better than whatever we got on living things as a finished product. just take a listen to all of these beautiful sounds and how lyrics are working together with the arrangement, sending you to a very emotional musical journey. just imagine what would it be like if it was performed live? instead we got a generic linkin park 4-minute formulaic song. very sad, it’s just a piece of a lost potential

3:46 This is so unforgettable. Thank you LP for this beautiful moment

I never listened to this version until last Saturday at our memorial of Chester, but I love it. Though the part at 3:45 gets me really cause I always feel and hear him saying this alone and being able to help himself and therefore ending it all. The song is overall really powerfull, but at this one point Chester sounds very sad and kind of desprate or broken. Amazing who vunerbable he makes himself allowed to feel and how open he is once again about his feelings, but after what happened it makes me just feel very sad that he must have exactely felt that way when he ended it all :(

Here was me, being dumb and forgetting this was an actual song, rather than just a 6 minute instrumental demo of one of my less favorite Linkin Park songs. I've ignored this demo for so long, because I was so sure I heard it before and didn't like it. Well, now I know. It's amazing and I won't be sleeping on it anymore.

I hope he has found his home now... May your suffering end now. Rest in peace, Chester. I care about your light. 😔 Amen.

This is so beautiful man. I love Linkin Park. Always have been a fan.

Even Mike said he regrets not having this on the album. This is soo much better than the album version

This demo was made during the making of A thousand suns. Mike talked pretty openly on a stream once about this demo. He said it was one of their best demos but nobody in the band liked the tone other than himself, so it wasn't developed further. Obviously Mike liked this enough to revisit down the line. I think this also suggests that living things was made up of a lot that didn't make the cut for A thousand suns. I've assumed this for years, it was their fastest turn around between albums and stylistically similar. Some songs on living things would even fit in the narrative of a thousand suns. But this demo is something else. I feel more emotion in Chesters voice in the final version. But lyrically this is the deeper and more emotional version. If only this was the song that got final recording treatment

now you're gone, and i miss you.. i've never been on LP concert, i didn't have a chance, but i know every single song, official and underground

This song hurts today a lot... :'(

Goodbye Chester, You'll never lose this fan of yours for sure. Rest in Peace. You'll live on in our hearts and can't be replaced...

It's hard to carry on And we miss you now that you're gone No one will ever take your place!!!

this is outright perfection.

one of their best songs...

I feel so sad now hearing this song. No body will take your place Chester.

this is a masterpiece :'(

2:27 I just love the guitars at this part....

I feel so cold inside when I listen this song.

The level of awesomeness is over 9000

Happy Birthday Chester Mar 20, 2021 Missing u deeply You are always remembered May U find the peace and happiness there..

Everytime I listen to this I come close to tears, it's just so powerful and emotional.

"Just carry on And miss me when I am gone Don't let anyone take my place" Now he is gone. Let's hope no one takes his place.

One of the best part of Linkin Park... You can easily find yourself in lyrics

I haven't stopped playing this since he passed ❤️

One of the best demos linkin park has ever recorded

God Damn It! the goosebumps! pure awesome!

So beautiful. Love both the original one and the demo

The Piano at the end just destroyyys me, it feels like Mike is just there left on his Piano after Chester, I'm just glad that the rest of the band got each other's backs, it's just this one part at the end that really really got me

we gone miss you chester your place is always in our hearts #chesterbennington

Better than original, almost everything underground is.

Trust me Chester, we miss you. And I won't let anyone take your place as my favorite singer. Hopefully LP doesn't try to replace you either.

This was the last song from Linkin Park that I played in my 6 hour tribute and memorial on my radio station; 11th Floor Radio, yesterday.

No one would take your place legend Chester Bennington... 😢 Rest In Peace.

Why did they take the short version? Maaan this is awesomeeeeee

Absolutely awesome sounding.

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Oh fml I did not expect to burst into tears right now....

Tell them i couldn't help myself, and tell them i was alone , tell them i was the only one and there's nothing that can stop me from going home. This hits hard, almost as if he knew what will happen

This is amazing! This is better that the version they used in living things.

I'm cryin its so epic well done lp so emotional as always

It's like a message when you are preparing to die... A message we all ignored.

Fuck, now this song hit really hard.

RIP Chester :( What a terrible foreshadowing and one of Chester's best vocal performances.

Dear chester nobody is gonna stop you from going home now. RIP legend, we always gonna miss you here. You saved us, but we couldn´t do same with you. :(

What I wanna know is who tf disliked this 😂

this song made me think about Chester a lot, it really hit my feels and I bet it did that to everyone else. this is legit one of the best yet one of the saddest songs Linkin Park has ever made and it deserves a lot more recognition. Nobody would ever fill the empty space Chester left because there is no such thing as this precious being. You'll always live on in our heart and memories buddy, rest in peace. 🙏🏻

i almost like the demo more than the real song...so great *_*

7 years today....jesus that chorus

Chester the Linkin Park is the top 1 energetic singer in the world. #LikeForChester #CommentForLinkinPark

Perfection

Rest in Piece Chester. The legend.

This is beautiful. Really beautiful stuff.

This song means so much more now

Not better, but different. Way different. I was always wondering if some LP song except ambient was created during the process of making one album, but wasn't released until the following album. Now this song is the answer.

2:23 best part!!! :)

Chesters voice is so soothing, and we do and always will miss you ❤

Love this song do hard.....i miss you chester....you was the only one with that feeling in your voice ....miss you...

It's hard to carry on without you Chester💔

This is one of those songs that influences you too deeply to be explained

This version is better than the album version.

I can not breathe so heart-rending is to hear this song after what happened. In deep sorrow

0:00 - 0:48 sounds similar to The Little Things Give You Away 2:22 - 3:02 Sounds Similar To The Solo In Burning In The Skies 3:46 - 4:46 Sounds similar to The Bridge Part In The Catalyst 4:54 - 5:57 Sounds Similar To Iridescent ending

Linkin Park is the greatest ability behind the world No one could be the best as much as the Linkin Park His music made my skin to create goosebumps

2013...we were so blind. I wish we had done something to save him... #ripchester

I miss you every day Chester 😪

This music is otherworldly..

Кто пишет, мол, "Больше нравится, чем финальная" - ну так разные песни по итогу. Тут даже как кавер уже звучит) Своё прочтение. Немного сумбурное звучание, в финальном всё-таки всё плавней. Хотя, повторюсь - разные песни получились.

bruh, this is 10x times better compared with finished one ! more emotions, beauty!!!! LOVE IT

I like this version way better. the meaning of the song I think matches the melody and the emotion. at least in my interpretation of the song..

0,004% of dislikes......this is Linkin Park. 3:46 the best clean vocal Chester ever did !

The end is amazing! Best part no doubt

thanks again you are beautiful song

No one can ever take your place, Chester

Anyone having a Linkin Park marathon?

im feeling like i level up today after listening this track. but post product is so much better, this means somebodies worked hard after demo. thx guys.