Hands Held High

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This is a song from Linkin' Parks newest album “Minutes to Midnight”. The CD is great, but to me something about this one song really sticks out to me. The lyrics are simply amazing and they hold so much power in them as well. As the booklet that came with the CD says, Mike Shinoda delivered two of the most inspired verses he’s ever done in this song. The lyrics are below.

Turn my mike up louder I got to say something
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 on my mind, I summon the rhyme, I’m dumping

Feeling the blind I promised to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we marched to the drumming

Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fuck that I wanna see some fists pumping

Miss 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 the 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 the fan and poor

Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can’t put gas in your tank

These fuckers are laughing the way to the bank and cashing the check
Asking you to have the passion and 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 their living room laughing like “what did he say?"

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

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

Ten years old is something to see
Another kid my age drug under the jeep

Taken and bound and found later under the tree
I wonder if he thought the next one could be me

Do you see the soldiers they’re out today
They brush the guts with bullet proof vests away

It’s ironic at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew up the mosque yesterday

There’s bombs in 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 handwrote 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
In their living room laughing like “what did he say?“

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Nice lyrics

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somehow reminds me of civil war by GnR

J.F.K Recording: What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don’t like it any more than you men." *


Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they’ve always done before


Look at the hate we’re breeding
Look at the fear we’re feeding
Look at the lives we’re leading
The way we’ve always done before


My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can’t deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars


D’you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said “Peace could last forever”
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can’t trust freedom
When it’s not in your hands
When everybody’s fightin'
For their promised land


And
I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war


Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we’re spilling
Look at the world we’re killing
The way we’ve always done before
Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed
Look at the leaders we’ve followed
Look at the lies we’ve swallowed
And I don’t want to hear no more


My hands are tied
For all I’ve seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars


“We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer” **


I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
And I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need one more war


I don’t need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

Last edited 20 May 2007 09:44 am by CPO Fraser

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agh this is my least favorite song from the new album..the song is more annoying than anyhing to me...Given Up is the best fer sure\m/

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I donno what you’re talking about. This song is the best on the album. It’s telling you to look around and see what the war’s doing to America. There are people who are giving their lives over there for people they’ve never met and we’re over here enjoying our air conditioning and sh*t like that. Well, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m only 16, I’d be over there too. I’d like to stick up for my country and help those who need it. Maybe there’ll be people like Linkin Park who sing about me and my fellow soldiers... It makes them feel like they’ve got purpose.

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^ ok ya maybe you right on the reasoning of Hands Held High but omg as a linkin park fan who loved “old” linkin park and is pretty pissed off that they like 85% sold out on their new album..i was expecting sooooo much more and they did not deliver on this album or this annoying song...god they wrote over 100 songs and they put ONLY 12 songs on Minutes to Midnight omg and only 4 of those songs in my opinion are good...2 “ok' songs and 2 amazing songs...geez what happed to likin park...and to top that their tour this summer is with MCR and Taking Back Sunday omg those bands are soooo emo and shitty!

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Yes yes.. good shit

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At the end of your lyrics you have part of it wrong. The Second time this is repeated

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

Its

And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
Both Scared and Angry like “what did he say?“

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*Walks by and gives high five*

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Yeah I have the new Linkin Park album and the lyrics are alot better than the music. Thats all i’m saying.

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This is one of the few songs i like on this cd.....IMO they took there sound the wrong way.....

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I like it. Its different from their previous albums but no less good.

The only people who I think would be disappointed were those expecting another hybrid theory.

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^ yup yup

hell i would take another Meteora b4 Linkin Park’s new album....o well at least M2M has a couple sweet killer songs...hands held high is not one of them.