Editing Ground Xero

{{Infobox Lostwave|Box=BoxRed|ShowBox=yes|Image=GroundXero.jpg|Year=2000-2005|Genre=Alternative Rock|Search_started=2005|OP=Astat|Status=Unsolved|Media=GroundXero.mp3|Caption=Cover of Linkin Park's self-titled demo tape from 1997, when they were known as Xero.}}'''Ground Xero''' is an unidentified alternative-rock song that was misattributed as a demo created by Mark Wakefield, the original lead singer of the nu-metal band Linkin Park.

== Background ==
On April 14th, 2005, the song was first uploaded to a Linkin Park fan site called chestersings.com after the song was provided to them by a user named Astat, who found the song on Kazaa with the filename Wakefield - Ground Xero.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050418212133/http://www.chestersings.com/index2.html</ref><ref>https://linkinpedia.com/?title=Ground_Xero</ref> 

The song was first reuploaded to YouTube on April 29th, 2008 by user theoryoflinkin.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3egnoj9nMU</ref>

On November 20th, 2009, co-founder of Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, confirmed that the song was not created by any iteration of the band.<ref>https://lplive.net/forums/topic/3021-mike-ground-xero-not-real/#comment-46297</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3egnoj9nMU&lc=UgxyDrBzyynKa4ay1ap4AaABAg</ref> 

The song first gained attention in the Lostwave community on December 15th, 2020, when Reddit user 483894387YES76 posted about the song on r/lostwave.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/kdgf05/ground_xero_or_ground_zero/</ref> 

== Leads ==

=== Possible ===

=== Debunked ===

* '''Single Bullet Theory - Ground Xero''': Hoax post that created a fake channel impersonating an auto-generated YouTube topic channel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9wI7tc-d4</ref><ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7636475?hl=en#zippy=%2Chow-does-youtube-decide-when-to-auto-generate-a-topic-channel-for-an-artist</ref> The distributor mentioned in the video description is the same person who falsely claimed that their father created the song.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjhvJKe8r7c&lc=UgxjRuoxTUppHO6yz5V4AaABAg</ref> 

== Lyrics ==
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" role="presentation"
|'''Presumed Lyrics'''
|-
|'''(Verse 1)'''
Don't worry about the time, just watch the sun set.

I keep my feelings bottled up, things that I've regret

Oh can it be, up to me right now

'''(Chorus)'''

Everything's so lovely in the sky right now

I want to take it back, but I don't know how

Can you chase the rainbow, to find it's end

Take me to your ground zero, back again.

'''(Verse 2)'''

I simply wish that I, could feel the way you do.

I'm just out again, standing next to you

Gone overboard, and restore my pain.

'''(Chorus)'''

Everything's so lovely in the sky right now

I want to take it back, but I don't know how

Can you chase the rainbow, to find it's end

Take me to your ground zero, back again.

'''''(Guitar Solo)'''''
|}

== Resources ==
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[[Category:Unidentified]]
[[Category:Alt-Rock]]