
Down to the wire, the band was left with little margin for error. Unable to sing during his last week of scheduled recording, Chester was forced to finish his parts in New York, during the start of the mixing process. When it came time to complete the song, the band ran into a challenge: Chester got sick. The song's 6/8 time signature created an opportunity to juxtapose seemingly disparate rhythms, most apparent in the verses. On the Meteora booklet, the band wrote, "Phoenix came up with the original guitar idea for this song while recording with Mike in the back of the tour bus during the summer of 2002. Lyrically, I am going to defer again to the person reading the lyrics because that song especially might be open to a little bit of interpretation." I don't know, like a Tool or Mudvayne song. Now, the next challenge is going to be 7-8. Needless to say, I've figured out what I like and don't like to do over 6-8 time. Again, as simple as it sounds on the record, you try out ten to two different things to realize what is working and what's not. I'd heard them and I wanted to do my own thing. There are probably only three or four songs I can think of where people have rapped in 3-4 or 6-8 time and I didn't like how they did it. I, on the other hand, had no reference point for 6-8 time signature rapping. Finally, when it came to writing the lyrics, Chester had no problem throwing some stuff in the verses. It's just not quite right." Brad all of the sudden added this almost 4-4 style thing over top of the 6-8 verse which totally pulled the song together and makes it feel like a Linkin Park song. Take this guitar part and make this work because it's almost there. It's not something that happens all the time but if somebody does have an idea, we're open to listening. We're all really open to other people helping us with our parts, like re-writing parts and whatever. He felt like there was something missing. We heard it and we knew that it was going to work. Phoenix wanted to do a song in 6-8 really badly and he put it together in a way that was obviously going to work for us. I've tried a few things in 3-4, 6-8 or 7-8 before. That goes for the songs that we've released in the past anyway. For the musicians out there, our songs are all in 4-4 time. About "From The Inside", he said, ""From The Inside" started with an idea that Phoenix had on guitar. In March 2003, Mike Shinoda did a track-by-track of Meteora for ShoutWeb. Then photographed again." A music video was filmed for it in Vienna, Austria, where scenes of riots were filmed for the video. Original portraits by James Minchin III Xeroxed and wheat pasted to wall. It was released as the fourth single from the album on Januwith its cover taken from the Meteora wall as explained by Frank Maddocks, "Here’s a photo of one of the large walls we all painted for the album packaging. "From The Inside" is the tenth song on Linkin Park's sophomore album Meteora.
