Iridescent

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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"Iridescent"
Performed by:	Linkin Park
Written by:	Linkin Park
Produced by:	Mike Shinoda

"Iridescent" is a song by Linkin Park rock, featured on the 2011 album Dark of the Moon: The Album.

Single releases

1. "Iridescent"
2. "What I've Done"
3. "New Divide"

Release date: May 27, 2011
Label: Warner Bros. Records

Album releases

• 2010 — A Thousand Suns
• 2011 — A Thousand Suns+: Live in Madrid
• 2011 — Dark of the Moon: The Album
• 2011 — iTunes Festival: London 2011

Music video

In June 2011, Linkin Park released the music video for "Iridescent". It is based on the short story "The Country of the Blind" by H.G. Wells, but set in a post-apocalyptic future. It features Mike Shinoda playing the part of the one-eyed king, singing to a snake (named Trevor) coiled around him, and Chester Bennington singing. The video has various kinds of random imagery edited into it, such as references to The Last Supper and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Lyrics

When you were standing in the wake of devestation

    When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
    And, with the cataclysm raining down / insides crying, save me now
    You were there, impossibly alone
    
    Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
    You build up hope / but failure's all you've known
    Remember all / the sadness and frustration
    And let it go / let it go
    
    And, in a burst of light that blinded every angel
    As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
    You felt the gravity of tempered grace / falling into empty space
    No-one there to catch you in their arms
    
    Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
    You build up hope / but failure's all you've known
    Remember all / the sadness and frustration
    And let it go / let it go
    
    Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
    You build up hope / but failure's all you've known
    Remember all / the sadness and frustration
    And let it go / let it go
    Let it go
    Let it go
    Let it go
    
    Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
    You build up hope / but failure's all you've known
    Remember all / the sadness and frustration
    And let it go / let it go

Notes

• The song's single edit preformed only once, June 23, 2011, during band's live show on Moscow's Red Square for the world premiere of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
• In 2012, they debuted The Ballad Medley, which include Leave Out All the Rest, Shadow of the Day, and Iridescent for the 2012 Honda Civic Tour.

External links

• Video for "Iridescnet"