GigiBowman
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I like this....I don't think I ever actually read the words to War Pigs....always just listened...but reading gives you a different perspective.
We're dating ourselves a bit here.....so this is what the new kids on the block are writing about war.
Listen: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573ffZPcm88]YouTube - Linkin Park Hands Held High With Lyrics[/ame]
We're dating ourselves a bit here.....so this is what the new kids on the block are writing about war.
Hands Held High
by Linkin Park
Turn my mic up louder I got to say something
Lightweights step it 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 in 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 drum and
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fuck 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 fuckers are laughing their way to
the bank 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?"
[ Beginning of Chorus ]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
[ End of Chorus ]
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 there's something to see
Another kid my age drugged 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 dust from bulletproof 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
"both scared and angry" like
"what did he say?"
Listen: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573ffZPcm88]YouTube - Linkin Park Hands Held High With Lyrics[/ame]
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