Top 10 Songs About Trying to Write a Song or Make an Album

It's about the songwriting process in Linkin Park as seen by Mike Shinoda who wrote the lyrics. He told Kerrang! Magazine:
"I wrote the lyrics to this about 100 times. It's always frustrating as a lyricist to come in with a new version that you spent hours on and have the band tell you that it's not there yet. In one case, they listened to my lyrics for 30 seconds and told me to start over again. That was pretty hard. It felt like I was bringing in the lyrics, getting punched in the face and then going back to the drawing board. When it finally came together I said to the band 'I don't think anyone but us could have made a song like this'. It's a bizarre death-party-rap-hoedown! "

Robert Lamm, Chicago's keyboardist and author of this song said the song title refers to time and that the song is about trying to write a song late at night (“Waiting for the break of day, Searching for something to say.”)