In the Making Of Minutes To Midnight DVD, the band is shown considering "Leave Out All The Rest", or simply just "All The Rest", for the album's title. A lot of the song is about humility." Mike Shinoda mentioned how he had grown attached to the song throughout the writing sessions for Minutes To Midnight, and Rick Rubin mentioned how he, like Bennington, knew that it would become a single. I'm singing 'Pretending someone else can save me from myself' during it because it's supposed to feel like an apology letter, as though I'm moving on but I want people to remember the good things and not the bad things. The chorus of this song, working-titled “Fear,” went through over 30 lyric variations before arriving at this version."Ĭhester Bennington, in an issue of Kerrang!, talked about some of the meaning behind "Leave Out All The Rest", saying " We knew this was going to be a single from the very beginning, so we worked really hard on making sure it had some great lyrics.
The lyrics, however, were one place where the most work took place. Very little changed between the first incarnation of the music, and the final version that appears on the album.
The booklet for the limited edition version of Minutes To Midnight revealed that the song remained largely unchanged throughout the album sessions, stating " The final version of this track is virtually the same as the first demo of the song. But I've heard other people comment on that too, saying it sounds like Ministry." I think it's more of a coincidence that it sounds like that. I don't know if anyone in the band listens to that much Ministry. I think it’s a really touching song." The April 2007 issue of a French magazine published a track by track of Minutes To Midnight on which Chester said, "Mike wrote the main melody, the song itself is quite pop, but I think the fans will love it." Some publications noted the song has a Ministry sound to it and Rob was asked if it was sampled, to which he answered, "No, that's a completely original song. Lyrically, I can definitively say this is our strongest record, and in particular, this song I really connect to personally. In a March 2007 article promoting the album, Brad said about the untitled song still going by two working titles "When My Time Comes" or "Leave Out All The Rest", "It's a really moody, almost electronic-based song. The song also appeared on the Twilight soundtrack, and during the end credits of the movie. The track was released as the fifth and final single from the album on July 14, 2008. "Leave Out All The Rest" is the third song on Linkin Park's third studio album, Minutes To Midnight.