Turn my mic up louder,
I got to say something
Lightweights stepping 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 on my mind,
I 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 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 had 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 the rich
And an 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 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,
Or get blown into fractions
10 years old is something to see,
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep,
Taken and bound and found later under a tree,
I wonder if he thought the "next one could be me"
Do you see?
The soldiers they're out today
That 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 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