Hands Held High

        A
Turn my mike up louder I got to say something
                          A/G#
Light weights step to the side when we come in
F#m
Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping
                          E/F#
People on the street they panic and start running
D
Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
                                 E/F#
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping
A
Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
E
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and
A
Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
                   A/G#
Fuck that I wanna see some fists pumping
F#m
Risk something, take back what's yours
                                        E/F#
Say something that you know they might attack you for
          D
Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
                                       E/F#
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
          A
Like this war's really just a different brand of war
        E
Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor
          F#m
Like they understand you in the back of the jet
         E/F#
When you can't put gas in your tank
                  F#m
These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check
       A
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
      F#m
For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
 E/F#
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
        F#m
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
         A
In their living room laughing like "what did he say?"

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Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen