Linkin Park - Hands Held High Lyrics

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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 drum and 
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 / and these fuckers are 
laughing their way to the bank / cashing the check 
asking you to have compassion / have 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 their living room laughing like 
what did he say 

in my living room watching / i am not laughing / cause 
when it gets tense i know what might happen 
the world is cold / the bold men make action 
have to react or get blown into fractions 
ten years old / it's 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 / they're out today they 
brush the dust from bulletproof vests away 
it's ironic / at times like this you pray 
but a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday 
there's bombs on the busses / 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" 
and 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 

with hands held high into a sky so blue 
as the ocean opens up to swallow you

with hands held high into a sky so blue 
as the ocean opens up to swallow you

with hands held high into a sky so blue 
as the ocean opens up to swallow you

with hands held high into a sky so blue 
as the ocean opens up to swallow you

with hands held high into a sky so blue 
as the ocean opens up to swallow you

with hands held high into a sky so blue 
as the ocean opens up to swallow you

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lyrics submitted on 16-05-2007
lyrics corrected on 16-05-2007