Hands Held High Lyrics - Linkin Park

1 Turn my mic up louder, I got to say somethin'

2 Lightweights step it aside when we comin'

3 Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumpin'

4 People on the street they panic and start runnin'

5 Words on loose leaf sheet, complete comin'

6 I jump on my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumpin'

7 Healin' the blind, I promise to let the sun in

8 Sick of the dark ways we march to the drummin'

9 Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumpin'

10 Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumpin'

11 Risk somethin', take back what's yours

12 Say somethin' that you know they might attack you for

13 'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I had before

14 Like it's stupid standin' for what I'm standin' for

15 Like this war's really just a different brand of war

16 Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor

17 Like they understand you, in the back of their jet

18 When you can't put gas in your tank

19 And these fuckers are laughin' their way to the bank, and cashin' their cheque

20 Askin' you to have compassion and have some respect

21 For a leader so nervous in an obvious way

22 Stutterin' and mumblin' for nightly news to replay

23 And the rest of the world watchin' at the end of the day

24 In the living room laughin' like, "What did he say?"

25 (''Amen'')

26 (''Amen'')

27 (''Amen'')

28 (''Amen'')

29 (''Amen'')

30 In my livin' room watchin', but I am not laughin'

31 'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen

32 The world is cold, the bold men take action

33 Have to react to get blown into fractions

34 Ten years old, it's somethin' to see

35 Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep

36 Taken and bound and found later under a tree

37 I wonder if he had thought 'the next one could be me'

38 Do you see the soldiers they're out today

39 They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away

40 It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray

41 But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday

42 There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads

43 Inside your market, your shops, your clothes

44 My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know

45 But enough pride inside not to let that show

46 My brother had a book he would hold with pride

47 A little red cover with a broken spine

48 On the back he hand-wrote a quote inside

49 "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"

50 Meanwhile, the leader just talks away

51 Stutterin' and mumblin' for nightly news to replay

52 The rest of the world watching at the end of the day

53 Both scared and angry, like "What did he say?"

54 (''Amen'')

55 (''Amen'')

56 (''Amen'')

57 (''Amen'')

58 (''Amen'') With hands held high into a sky so blue

59 (''Amen'') The ocean opens up to swallow you

60 (''Amen'') With hands held high into a sky so blue

61 (''Amen'') The ocean opens up to swallow you

62 (''Amen'') With hands held high into a sky so blue

63 (''Amen'') The ocean opens up to swallow you

64 (''Amen'') With hands held high into a sky so blue

65 (''Amen'') The ocean opens up to swallow you

66 (''Amen'') With hands held high into a sky so blue

67 (''Amen'') The ocean opens up to swallow you

68 (''Amen'') With hands held high into a sky so blue

69 (''Amen'') The ocean opens up to swallow you