Hands Held High by Linkin Park

Turn my mic up louder I got something to say
Light weights step to the side 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 ways we march to the drum and

Jump when they tell us they want to 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 the rich and abandon 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 the cheque
Asking you to have compassion and some respect

For a leader so nervious in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay

And the rest of the world watching at the end of day
In their living room laughing like what did he say?

Amen

In my living room watching but I'm not laughing
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen

World is cold the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions

10 years old its 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 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 rage war its the poor who die

Meanwhile, the leader just walks away
Stuttering and mumbling for the 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

With hands held high into the sky so blue
As the ocean opens to swallow you

Amen



This is an older song by Linkin Park, but still rings true to this very day. The world is falling apart all around us. There are wars being fought in the middle east and in our own homes. More and more suicide bombers than ever before. Innocent people being killed or subject to other worse situations. The rich complain about crap that the poor could never begin to pay for. But its the poor cleaning up the wrongs of the rich. Why should I give a darn about the mistakes of a billionaire? Why should I feel bad for that person? I should be allowed to stand for what I believe in without being harrassed. What happened to our freedoms? Look at this situation with the mosque being built (supposed to be) down the road from the World Trade Centers, and how insane this topic is becoming. You have one group of people who don't want the mosque to be built because it's disrespectful to the families of the victims of 9/11. The other side supports the building of the mosque because Muslims have the right to worship and have their freedom of religion. We have idiots burning the Koran because that will make all of this hate between nations stop. What is happening to our country? We seem to have lost all sense of direction and purpose and reason for which this land was founded in the first place. We have presidents who can't seem to get their acts together and figure out what to do with our country and situations going on in the middle east. Then we watch these public figures struggle to tell us what is going on and they lose their credibility. Some day you wish for peace, but that peace won't come til the last day and the earth is destroyed and believers will go to heaven and unbelievers will go to hell. Pray for this country! Pray for our president and government! Pray for the world; that we don't just set aside our differences during world events like the olympics, but all the time.