Hands up

Turn my mic up louder, turn up the mic volume

I got to say somethin. I have something to say

Light weight step it aside, gently avoid it

when we comin. When we come

Feel it in your chest, feel it with your heart

the syllables get pumpin. Feel every syllable

People on the street, people on the street

They panic and start running. They flee in terror

Words on loose leaf, every sentence on the loose leaf

Sheet complete coming. Every word is in front of me

I jump on my mind, I rack my brains

I summon the rhyme of dumping. Make the chaotic rhythm clear

Feeling the blind, blind feeling

I promise to let the sun in. I promise to see the sun

Sick of the dark ways

we march to the drumming. Jump when they tell us What did they say

They want to see jumping. They want to see our change

F*** that, I want to go to hell

see some fist pumping. I just want to see my first feeling

Risk something. Dare to take risks

Take backwards yours

Say something that you know Tell me what you know

They might attack you for Maybe you will be attacked by them

cause I'm sick of being treated I hate being treated like this

like I have before.

Like a stupid standing for

what I'm standing for.

Like this war is really just like this just war

a different brand of war. A different brand of war

Like a dozen catered rich A bunch of rich people with adequate food and clothing

and an abandoned poor. and a homeless man abandoned by life

Like they understand you

in the back of the jet, in the back of the jet

When you can't put gas in your tank.

When you can't refuel the tank

These f***ers are laughing their way

to the bank and cashing their check to the bank Cash their checks

asking you to have compassion and to have some respect. Asking you to bring some compassion and respect

For a leader so nervous a nervous leader

in unobvious ways

Stuttering and mumbling

for nightly news to replay news that is repeated every night

and the rest of the world The survivors in the world

watching at the end of the day Watching the end of the day

in the living room laughing and laughter echoing in the room

like what did he say? Like what he said in the past?

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen

In my living room watching, from my room

But I am not laughing.

'Cause when it gets tense, because things are getting worse

I know what might happen. I know what will happen.

The world is cold, this cold world

The bold men take action. Action

Have to react, have to resist

To getting blown into fractions. Get a moment of respite

10 years old is something to see, look at those A 10-year-old kid

Another kid my age drugged under a G, a kid my age was lost under a G

Taking about and found later under a tree, they found The letter under the tree

I wonder if he thought the next one could be me. I wonder if he thought the next one could be me.

Do you see? See

The soldiers that are out today. Those soldiers who are far away from us

That brush the dust with bulletproof vests away. Gently sweep away the dust on the bulletproof vests

It's ironic. How ironic

At times like this you pray, you pray from time to time

But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday. temple

There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads, inside your markets, your shops, your coves

My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know dad, I know how much fear he has faced

but enough pride inside to let that show. But I am proud to face it all

My brother had a book he would hold with pride My brother had a book that he would hold with pride

A little red cover with a broken spine. A little red cover with a broken spine

In the back he hand wrote a quote inside, at the end of the book he wrote the introduction

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Politicians who wage war suffer the common people

and the rest of the world the survivors

watching at the end of the day watching the end of the day

both scared and angry Angry

like what did he say? Like what he said in the past

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen

With Hands Held High

into a sky so blue

the ocean opens up

to swallow you. You swallow up

With Hands Held High

into a sky so blue

the ocean opens up gradually

to swallow you. Swallow you

With Hands Held High

into a sky so blue

the ocean opens up gradually

to swallow you. With Hands Held High

into a sky so blue the sky

the ocean opens up gradually

to swallow you. engulf you

With Hands Held High

into a sky so blue Stretch into the blue sky

the ocean opens up gradually

to swallow you. Swallow you

With Hands Held High Raise your hands

into a sky so blue

Reaching into the blue sky

the ocean opens up gradually

to swallow you. Swallow you