[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]
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Turn my mic up louder, I got to say somethin
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Lightweights step it aside when we come in
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Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumpin
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People on the street, they panic and start runnin
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Words on loose-leaf sheet complete comin
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I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme Im dumpin
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Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in
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Sick of the dark ways we march to the drummin
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Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumpin
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Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumpin
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Risk something, take back whats yours
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Say somethin that you know they might attack you for
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‘Cause Im sick of being treated like I have before
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Like its stupid standin for what Im standin for
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Like this wars really just a different brand of war
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Like it doesnt cater to rich and abandon poor
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Like they understand you in the back of the jet
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When you cant put gas in your tank
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These fuckers are laughin their way to the bank and cashin the check
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Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
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[Pre-Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
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For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
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Stutterin and mumblin for nightly news to replay
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And the rest of the world watchin at the end of the day
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In the livin room laughin, like, “What did he say?”
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[Chorus: Choir]
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Amen, amen
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Amen, amen
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Amen
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[Verse 2: Mike Shinoda]
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In my livin room watching, but I am not laughin
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‘Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
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The world is cold, the bold men take action
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Have to react or get blown into fractions
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Ten years old, somethin to see
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Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
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Taken and bound, and found later under a tree
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I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me
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Do you see the soldiers that are out today?
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They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
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Its ironic, at times like this, youd pray
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But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
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Theres bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
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Inside your market, your shops, your clothes
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My dad, hes got a lot of fear, I know
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But enough pride inside not to let that show
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My brother had a book he would hold with pride
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A little red cover with a broken spine
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On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
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“When the rich wage war, its the poor who die”
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[Pre-Chorus: Mike Shinoda]
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Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
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Stutterin and mumblin for nightly news to replay
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The rest of the world watchin, at the end of the day
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Both scared and angry, like, “What did he say?”
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[Chorus: Choir]
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Amen, amen
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Amen, amen
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Amen
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[Outro: Mike Shinoda & Chester Bennington, Choir]
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With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
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As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
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With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
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As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
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With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
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As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
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With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
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As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
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With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
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As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
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With hands held high into a sky so blue (Amen)
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As the ocean opens up to swallow you (Amen)
