Linkin Park - Hands Held High lyrics
[Linkin Park - Hands Held High lyrics]
Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something
Lightweights step it aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest
The syllables get pumping
People on the street
They panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and
Summon the rhyme I'm dumping
Healing the blind
I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we
March to the drumming
Jump when they tell us that
They wanna see jumping
Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping
Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they
Might attack you for
'Cause I'm sick of being treated
Like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for
What I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a
Different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater to
Rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the
Back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These fuckers are laughing their way to
The bank and cashing the check
Asking you to have compassion
And have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly
News to replay
And the rest of the world watching
At the end of the day
In the living room laughing, like
"What did he say?"
Amen amen
Amen amen
Amen
In my living room watching
But I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense
I know what might happen
The world is cold, the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old, something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the
Next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers that are out, today?
They brush the dust from
Bulletproof vests away
It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up, yesterday
There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he
Would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
"When the rich wage war it's
The poor who die"
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly
News to replay
The rest of the world watching
At the end of the day
Both scared and angry, like
"What did he say?"
Amen amen
Amen amen
Amen
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
Lightweights step it aside when we come in
Feel it in your chest
The syllables get pumping
People on the street
They panic and start running
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and
Summon the rhyme I'm dumping
Healing the blind
I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we
March to the drumming
Jump when they tell us that
They wanna see jumping
Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping
Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they
Might attack you for
'Cause I'm sick of being treated
Like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for
What I'm standing for
Like this war's really just a
Different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater to
Rich and abandon poor
Like they understand you in the
Back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank
These fuckers are laughing their way to
The bank and cashing the check
Asking you to have compassion
And have some respect
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly
News to replay
And the rest of the world watching
At the end of the day
In the living room laughing, like
"What did he say?"
Amen amen
Amen amen
Amen
In my living room watching
But I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense
I know what might happen
The world is cold, the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions
Ten years old, something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the
Next one could be me
Do you see the soldiers that are out, today?
They brush the dust from
Bulletproof vests away
It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up, yesterday
There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show
My brother had a book he
Would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine
On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
"When the rich wage war it's
The poor who die"
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly
News to replay
The rest of the world watching
At the end of the day
Both scared and angry, like
"What did he say?"
Amen amen
Amen amen
Amen
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
With hands held high into a sky so blue
(Amen)
As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)