Song

media type="custom" key="9357344" __**Hands held High**__ **by Linkin Park** Turn my mic up louder I got to say something Light weights step 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 and 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 that they wanna see jumping - that I wanna see some fists 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 have before Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for

Like this war's really just a different brand of war Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor

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

And these - are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check Asking you to have compassion 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?"

[Chorus] Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen [End Chorus]

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

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

Ten years old it's something to see Another kid my age drugged under a jeep

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

Do you see the soldiers that're out today They brush the dust from bullet proof 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 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 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?"

[Chorus] 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 [End Chorus]

In this song, it describes how people were opposed to going into war. This relates to the War on Terrorism because a lot of people are against going to war. The speaker of the poem is the opposed, but the people who don't do any thing about it. The tone is and over all rebellion. "Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping - that I wanna see some fists pumping" In this line the song uses rhyming words jumping and pumping. "What did he say?" The writers use this phrase throughout the song. It repeats before the chorus starts. The best lines are "With hands held high into a sky so blue As the ocean opens up to swallow you" It just makes me see that, it's a simple description that is really detailed too. Give one example of the unusual choice of words. Explain why. What emotions are evoked? Use one word to describe the feeling.