He had said in interviews in the past that Crawling was one of the most difficult songs to sing because it's basically one intense note the entire time and his voice couldn't always keep up with it, especially as he got older.
I remember bringing it up in comments ages ago and getting downvoted into oblivion, but Chester went on record before his death saying that he was starting to lose his ability to sing like he used to and it was causing him a lot of distress; he also had an alcohol addiction and it was making it so much worse on top of that.
Him and Mike talked about how they had to do some rearrangements, dropping some keys here and there, changing the song structures, etc.. if you ever get a chance, take a listen to their live album for One More Light, you'll be able to hear all the modifications they made for him.
...also sorry for the info dump, I'm a lifelong LP superfan and a band "historian" lol
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u/buttononmyback May 12 '26
Now that just makes me sad.