Hands Held High
I've been wanting to post the lyrics for this song for the past two weeks, but I've been consumed lately with my prospectus first and then over the past week my qualifying exam questions (bei sangani hamgo mas put este siempre). Like most people I've had a love and hate relationship with the band and music of Linkin Park. But all of that it in the past now, faded and unimportant, since I love the song "Hands Held High" from their latest album Minutes to Midnight.
I wanted to share the lyrics with everyone, but also throw in some Youtube vidoes that match in someway the lyrics. I found some disturbing stuff when I was searching for Youtube videos about the Iraq war, but I'll post on it tomorrow.
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"Hands Held High"
Linkin Park
Turn my mic up louder,
I got to say somethin.
Lightweights steppin' aside,
when we comin.
Feel it in your chest,
the syllables get pumpin.
People on the street,
they panic and start running.
Words on loose leaf,
sheet complete coming.
I jump on my mind,
I summon the rhyme of dumping.
Feeling the blind,
I promise to let the sun in.
Sick of the dark ways,
we march to the drumming.
Jump when they tell us
they want to see jumping.
Fuck that, I want to
see some fist 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 is really just
a different brand of war.
Like it doesn't cater to the rich
and an abandoned the 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 their cheque
asking you to have compassion and to 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,
To getting blown into fractions.
10 years old is something to see,
Another kid my age dragged under a jeep,
Taken and bound and found later under a tree,
I wonder if he even thought the next one could be me.
Do you see?
The soldiers that are out today.
That brush the dust with bulletproof vests away.
It's ironic.
At times like this you pray,
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday.
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads,
inside your markets, 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.
In 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
and 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
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.
I wanted to share the lyrics with everyone, but also throw in some Youtube vidoes that match in someway the lyrics. I found some disturbing stuff when I was searching for Youtube videos about the Iraq war, but I'll post on it tomorrow.
****************
"Hands Held High"
Linkin Park
Turn my mic up louder,
I got to say somethin.
Lightweights steppin' aside,
when we comin.
Feel it in your chest,
the syllables get pumpin.
People on the street,
they panic and start running.
Words on loose leaf,
sheet complete coming.
I jump on my mind,
I summon the rhyme of dumping.
Feeling the blind,
I promise to let the sun in.
Sick of the dark ways,
we march to the drumming.
Jump when they tell us
they want to see jumping.
Fuck that, I want to
see some fist 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 is really just
a different brand of war.
Like it doesn't cater to the rich
and an abandoned the 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 their cheque
asking you to have compassion and to 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,
To getting blown into fractions.
10 years old is something to see,
Another kid my age dragged under a jeep,
Taken and bound and found later under a tree,
I wonder if he even thought the next one could be me.
Do you see?
The soldiers that are out today.
That brush the dust with bulletproof vests away.
It's ironic.
At times like this you pray,
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday.
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads,
inside your markets, 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.
In 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
and 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
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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