All this week we’re bringing you the definitive track-by-track story behind Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory. Over on Kerrang!’s Instagram, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Joe Hahn are breaking down three songs per day, providing unique insight into one of rock’s most important albums. One of the tracks dissected today is Linkin Park’s iconic single, Crawling. During which, vocalist Mike Shinoda revealed how one of the song’s most famous lyrics ‘Fear is how I fall’ came from their producer Don Gilmore mishearing one of their original lines. “I always wrote my own raps,” explains Mike of the lyric-writing process, “but when it came to all the singing parts, some songs I would write it, some songs [Chester] would write, some songs we wrote t...
