Inside your market, your shops, and your clothesīut enough pride inside not to let that show It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away I wonder if he had thought 'the next one could be me'ĭo you see the soldiers that are out today? Taken and bound and found later under a tree Have to react to get blown into fractions The world is cold, the bold men take action
'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen In my living room watching it, I am not laughing In the living room, laughing like, "What did he say?" Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replayĪnd the rest of the world watching at the end of the day When you can't put gas in your tank, these fuckersĪre laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their checkĪsking you to have the passion and have some respectįor a leader so nervous in an obvious way Like they understand you, in the back of their jet Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor Like this war's really just a different brand of war Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for 'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I had before Say something that you know they might attack you for Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumpingįuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in I jump in my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumping Words on loose leaf sheet, complete coming People on the street then panic and start running Lightweights steppin' aside when we come inįeel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something Lyrically, the song critiques the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the leadership of then president George W. Like Given Up and Bleed It Out, Hands Held High features profanity, unlike Linkin Park's previous songs which featured no profanity whatsoever. At the end of the song, Mike Shinoda sings "With hands held high into a sky so blue, until the ocean opens up to swallow you", making it one of the four songs on the album to feature his singing vocals (the other three being In Between, The Little Things Give You Away and No Roads Left). In live performances, Chester Bennington sings the chorus alone. The chorus consists of the entire band singing "Amen" as a choir. Stylistically it is quite similar to Shinoda's side project, Fort Minor, most notably between Hands Held High and the fourth single from Fort Minor's album, Where'd You Go. Along with Bleed It Out, it is the only song to feature Shinoda's rapping vocals. It is a rap song performed by Mike Shinoda to a very light instrumentation (including military sound-a-like drumbeat). Hands Held High is the seventh track on Linkin Park's album Minutes to Midnight. Alternative rock, emo rap, rap rock, conscious hip hop
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