Not surprisingly, it wasn't performed live until 2006 as a fan request. One can imagine him wincing when hearing those lyrics (Chester tried to roll with it a while, wearing a "Chester the Molester" T-shirt in the band's early days). A couple of years later, Chester Bennington would join the band, and had been tormented by people at school calling him "Chester the molester" (not helped by the fact he actually was molested for six years as a child). The Xero demo "Reading My Eyes" features Mike rapping that he is "the microphone molester".It feels like Chester was screaming for help, and seemingly no one (at least amongst his fans) took notice until it was too late. "Given Up" is a particularly harsh example, with Chester asking "What the fuck is wrong with me" and screaming to put him out of misery.Even up until the end, nobody wanted to hear what he had to say. Musically, it was widely criticized as the one Linkin Park album that sounded nothing like Linkin Park. Lyrically, One More Light sounds like one of Chester's most personal albums.In the behind-the-scenes video for "Heavy," Chester says that when his double, Rory, makes it as an actor, then Chester will repay Rory by becoming his stunt double.It's a stretch to think that their music caused his suicide, but the fact that he was listening to them so much at the time showed that it was heavy on his mind. Just before his death, he had been gushing on Twitter about his love for Twenty One Pilots, a band known for their lyrics about depression and especially suicidal thoughts.He was pronounced dead at 9 AM the day he died of suicide. Chester had another band as a side project called Dead by Sunrise.
Two weeks later, it could ironically be counted as a song dedicated to Chester himself. Not only that, but Chester performed "Hallelujah" at Chris' funeral.Chester's suicide happened on what would have been Cornell's 53rd birthday. Chester was close friends with Chris Cornell, who had also died of suicide by hanging mere weeks earlier."Breaking The Habit" in general, while not written by or about Chester (Mike wrote it about another friend struggling with drug addiction long before meeting Chester and Chester teared up upon reading Mike's lyrics) still remains incredibly heartbreaking to think about in hindsight, especially when rewatching concert footage and watching Chester's movements and actions during the performance emphasizing verses like "I'll never be alright.".Chester jumps to his death in the video for "Breaking The Habit" and his ghost then wanders the city and observes the tragedies in various people's lives.A lot of details in Linkin Park's songs have become uncomfortable in the wake of Chester Bennington's suicide:
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