This Anakin/Vader's POV

STAR WARS belongs to GEORGE LUCAS

IN THE END belongs to LINKIN PARK

It starts with love.

Padme and I. Not even the Dark Side could save her.

One thing, I don't know why

Why did I leave Tatooine? Why did I become a Jedi? I hoped I would see her again.

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

I tried to fight it, but I was in love.

Keep that in mind

I killed her. It's my fault.

I designed this rhyme

The whole Empire's gonna pay for this.

To explain in due time

All I know

I miss you, Padme.

Time is a valuable thing

I'm sorry. About you, about our child. There isn't anything I wouldn't do to turn back the clock.

Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings

But that isn't possible.

Watch it count down to the end of the day

It's hell on the galaxy without you.

The clock ticks life away

I can't find your grave, can't find you anywhere.

Its so unreal

Sometimes I don't think I'm alive anymore. I'm just walking around in a cyborg body.

Didn't look out below

I didn't think of the consequences

Watch the time go right out the window

And I killed those children

Trying to hold on but didn't even know

I thought I was doing it for you.

Wasted it all just to watch you go

But then I killed you.

I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart

Sometimes I don't understand me sometimes.

What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

I'm a slave again, but this time I don't know how to escape

I tried so hard

I did it for you

And got so far

But now it's gone too far

But in the end

This is the end of my life, now I just perform like a robot.

It doesn't even matter

It doesn't matter, cause you're gone

I had to fall

I gave up my oath to protect the galaxy for you.

To lose it all

But he tricked me, angel. I don't know if you can hear me.

But in the end

You probably don't want to hear me

It doesn't even matter

I don't blame you. I wouldn't talk to me either.

One thing I don't know why

Obi-Wan, I don't even remember what our fight was about

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

I know you didn't understand, if I had been honest though you would have.

Keep that in mind

I wish you would have killed me.

I designed this rhyme, to remind myself how

Death is better than this.

I tried so hard

Being tortured by these memories

In spite of the way you were mocking me

Yeah, I know you were tough on me. You were trying to be as good as Qui-Gon.

Acting like I was part of your property

And yes, that annoyed me. To no end, my master.

Remembering all the times you fought with me

And I was stubborn. I didn't listen.

I'm surprised it got so far

I'm surprised I got this far without turning to the dark side.

Things aren't the way they were before

But now I am, and I'm a slave to it. I don't hope to be rescued.

You wouldn't even recognize me anymore

In this suit, the only way you would recognize me is my Force signature.

Not that you knew me back then

We shouldn't have fought so much. I shouldn't have been so ambitious, you shouldn't have had such high expectations.

But it all comes back to me in the end

And it haunts me every day.

You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart

I tried to control my feelings, but it never worked. Now I'm trapped in the dark side, and I can't get out.

What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I

I don't know, sometimes something just comes over me. And I can't control it.

I tried so hard

Blame it on I never had a father

And got so far

Blame it on I never had time to grieve properly

But in the end

Blame it on I had to leave my mother

It doesn't even matter

Blame it on I was a slave

I had to fall

Blame it on too many midichlorians

To lose it all

Blame it on that I wasn't supposed to love

But in the end

But when you come down to it, when I do

It doesn't even matter

When I'm really honest with myself: it really is my fault

I've put my trust in you

I used to trust you, Padme, both you and Obi-Wan

Pushed as far as I can go

My loyalties to the Republic mean nothing

For all this there's only one thing you should know

I still love you. Could you forgive me?

I tried so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall To lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter...

Someday, I'll atone for what I've done...