Hands Held High - Linkin Park

[00:23.13]Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something
[00:25.63]Lightweights steppin' aside when we come in
[00:28.11]Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping
[00:30.28]People on the street then panic and start running
[00:32.55]Words on loose leaf sheet, complete coming
[00:34.78]I jump in my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumping
[00:37.18]Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in
[00:39.34]Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming
[00:41.74]Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
[00:44.07]F*ck that, I wanna see some fists pumping
[00:46.31]List something, take back what's yours
[00:48.58]Say something that you know they might attack you for
[00:50.79]'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I had before
[00:53.09]Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
[00:55.20]Like this war's really just a different brand of war
[00:57.63]Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor
[00:59.91]Like they understand you, in the back of their jet
[01:02.34]When you can't put gas in your tank, these fu*kers
[01:04.74]Are laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their check
[01:06.94]Asking you to have the passion and have some respect
[01:09.25]For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
[01:11.48]Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
[01:13.68]And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
[01:15.96]In the living room, laughing like, 'What did he say?'
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[01:19.45]Amen
[01:22.15]Amen
[01:26.67]Amen
[01:31.42]Amen
[01:36.00]Amen
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[01:42.40]In my living room watching it, I am not laughing
[01:43.99]'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
[01:46.20]The world is cold, the bold men take action
[01:48.61]Have to react or get blown into fractions
[01:50.92]At 10 years old, it's something to see
[01:53.17]Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
[01:55.27]Taken and bound and found later under a tree
[01:57.52]I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
[01:59.86]Do you see the soldiers that are out today?
[02:02.19]They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
[02:04.40]It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
[02:06.71]But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
[02:08.90]There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
[02:11.66]Inside your market, your shops, and your clothes
[02:13.87]My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know
[02:16.10]But enough pride inside not to let that show
[02:18.35]My brother had a book he would hold with pride
[02:20.68]A little red cover with a broken spine on the back
[02:23.01]He hand-wrote a quote inside,
[02:25.31]'When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die'
[02:27.81]Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
[02:29.98]Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
[02:32.33]The rest of the world watching at the end of the day
[02:34.61]Both scared and angry, like 'What did he say?'
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[02:37.33]Amen
[02:40.54]Amen
[02:45.10]Amen
[02:49.75]Amen
[02:54.37]Amen
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[02:55.77]With hands held high into the skies above
[03:00.71]The ocean opens up to swallow you (*6)