Linkin Park What Ive Done

Linkin Park’s single, “What I’ve Done”, from the album Minutes to Midnight, was released as a music video in April 2007, showing the band performing in the California desert interspersed with stock video footage.

Desert scene from beginning and end of Linkin Park music video

The music video reflects on social and environmental issues including pollution, global warming, racism, Nazism, gay rights, famine, terrorism, wars, deforestation, poverty, drug addiction, abortion, obesity, destruction, rising gasoline prices and crimes committed by humanity. Historical figures in the music video include Mother Teresa, Buddha, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Mahatma Gandhi.

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Credits

The ‘What I’ve Done’ music video was directed by Linkin Park’s turntablist Joe Hahn, who is also known for his work with Static-X, Story of the Year, Xzibit and other bands. Hahn was nominated for best director in the MTV Music Video Awards 2007. The music video is also nominated for Best Group and Best Editing.

A second video, made exclusively for Australia, features a completely different scenario from the first. Instead of clips of human sin, the video tells the story of a woman working at a government-run pharmaceutical company learning of a plan to develop a new virus for “social control”. To expose the conspiracy she smuggles out blood samples from a human test subject, with the help of people dressed in black hooded sweatshirts with Linkin Park’s logo on them.

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Lyrics for What I’ve Done

In this farewell
There’s no blood
There’s no alibi
‘Cause I’ve drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies

[Pre-Chorus:]
So let mercy come
And wash away
What I’ve done

[Chorus:]
I’ll face myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done
Put to rest

Linkin Park in What I've Done music video

What you thought of me
While I clean this slate
With the hands of uncertainty

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]
For what I’ve done
I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I’m forgiving what I’ve done!!!

[Chorus]

What I’ve done
Forgiving what I’ve done

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