Hands Held High
[00:22.61] Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something
[00:25.38] Lightweights steppin' aside when we come in
[00:27.51] Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping
[00:29.93] People on the street then panic and start running
[00:32.33] Words on loose leaf sheet, complete coming
[00:34.45] I jump in my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumping
[00:36.84] Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in
[00:38.70] Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming
[00:41.62] Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
[00:43.74] Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping
[00:45.87] Risk something, take back what's yours
[00:48.32] Say something that you know they might attack you for
[00:50.45] 'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I had before
[00:52.57] Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
[00:54.97] Like this war's really just a different brand of war
[00:57.09] Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor
[00:59.52] Like they understand you, in the back of their jet
[01:01.91] When you can't put gas in your tank
[01:04.32] These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their check
[01:06.43] Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
[01:08.82] For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
[01:10.95] Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
[01:13.34] And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
[01:16.26] In the living room, laughing like, "What did he say?"
[01:18.12] Amen
[01:21.83] Amen
[01:26.34] Amen
[01:31.13] Amen
[01:35.64] Amen
[01:41.22] In my living room watching it, but I am not laughing
[01:43.61] 'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
[01:46.00] The war is cold, the bold men take action
[01:48.12] Have to react to get blown into fractions
[01:50.82] Ten years old, there's something to see
[01:52.89] Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
[01:55.03] Taken and bound and found later under a tree
[01:57.18] I wonder if he had thought 'the next one could be me'
[01:59.57] Do you see the soldiers that are out today?
[02:01.44] They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
[02:04.09] It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
[02:06.23] But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
[02:08.60] There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
[02:10.73] Inside your market, your shops, and your clothes
[02:13.16] My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know
[02:15.80] But enough pride inside not to let that show
[02:17.93] My brother had a book he would hold with pride
[02:20.38] A little red cover with a broken spine on the back
[02:22.76] He hand-wrote a quote inside
[02:24.88] "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"
[02:27.29] Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
[02:29.71] Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
[02:32.11] The rest of the world watching at the end of the day
[02:34.23] Both scared and angry, like "What did he say?"
[02:36.62] Amen
[02:40.34] Amen
[02:44.59] Amen
[02:49.40] Amen
[02:53.92] Amen
[02:55.54] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[02:57.91] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:00.85] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:03.77] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:08.83] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:13.61] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:17.06] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:18.65] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:21.84] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:25.82] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:29.80] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:31.67] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
