Hands Held High

As the ocean opens up to swallow you
I jump on my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumpin’

(Amen)

That brush the dust from bulletproof vests away?
Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Words on loose leaf sheet complete comin’
(Amen)
‘Cause I'm sick of bein' treated like I have before
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"

These ******* are laughin’ their way to the bank and cashin' the check
Both scared and angry like, "What did he say?"
Stutterin and mumblin’ for nightly news to replay
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way

With hands held high into a sky so blue
The world is cold, the bold men take action
(Amen)
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
(Amen)
Have to react to get blown into fractions
It's ironic, at times like this you pray

With hands held high into a sky so blue
My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know
In my livin’ room watchin’ but I am not laughin’
And the rest of the world watchin’ at the end of the day
(Amen)
Like I'm stupid standin’ for what I'm standin’ for
People on the street, they panic and start runnin’
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
Risk somethin', take back what's yours
Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor

With hands held high into a sky so blue

Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumpin’
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
(Amen)
Amen, amen
Amen, amen
10 years old is somethin' to see
Askin' you to have compassion and have some respect
(Amen)
(Amen)
(Amen)
Healin' the blind, I promise to let the sun in
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
And the rest of the world watchin’ at the end of the day
Amen, amen
(Amen)
Say somethin' that you know they might attack you for
When you can't put gas in your tank
Amen
With hands held high into a sky so blue
On the back he hand wrote a quote inside

Do you see the soldiers that are out today

Amen, amen
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
In their livin’ room laughin’ like, "What did he say?"
(Amen)

Like this war's really just a different brand of war
I wonder if he had thought, "The next one could be me"
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
But enough pride inside not to let that show
(Amen)

With hands held high into a sky so blue
Stutterin’ and mumblin’ for nightly news to replay

Like they understand you in the back of the jet
My brother had a book he would hold with pride
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Sick of the dark ways, we march to the drummin’
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep
F*** that! I want to see some fists pumpin’
A little red cover with a broken spine
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
With hands held high into a sky so blue
Jump when they tell us they want to see jumpin’