On the later versions of the song, there are new vocal takes from both Mike and Chester, with Chester screaming "cut myself free" on the pre-chorus. The last known version of the song dates from February 2000 and was meant for a canceled 8 Song EP.
Despite this, the credits of the LPU reissue of the EP treat it as a separate song calling it "Track 7."Īfter the original release of the EP, the band continued working on "Part Of Me" for inclusion on their debut studio album, Hybrid Theory, but it didn't make it to the final tracklist. The instrumental has no official title and Mike refers to it simply as "the end of Part Of Me". The track contains an untitled hidden instrumental track created by Mike Shinoda, which is known (unofficially) by fans as "Ambient" or "Secret". He was someone we had met who was really nice and we could do something for a small amount of money." The band worked on the Hybrid Theory EP with Mudrock in June 1999. Actually it was with Mudrock who did Godsmack's tracks. It was the first time we were in the studio. That was a little project we put together when Chester first came to California. It was part of an EP that we put out with a baby on the cover.
That was an older song of ours that is not on the album. He wrote a guitar part to it and we wrote a song around it. He got woken up or something to a car alarm from a garage in the parking lot underneath his apartment. I wrote a song from a sample that Brad collected of a car alarm. Speaking to ShoutWeb in October 2000, Mike Shinoda explained how the song came together: "Every time we write a song it starts from something different. When questioned about the meaning of the song, Mike simply said "read the lyrics." According to Jeff Blue's One Step Closer: From Xero to #1: Becoming Linkin Park book, the song is about the "obsession with one's own shortcomings and alleviating them." The first version of "Part Of Me" with Chester Bennington was recorded towards the end of May 1999 with " Untitled" and " Flower".
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