[00:23.08] Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something [00:25.54] Lightweights steppin' aside when we come in [00:27.78] Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping [00:30.04] People on the street then panic and start running [00:32.54] Words on loose leaf sheet, complete coming [00:34.69] I jump in my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumping [00:37.09] Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in [00:39.25] Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming [00:41.54] Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping [00:43.81] Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping [00:46.13] Risk something, take back what's yours [00:48.46] Say something that you know they might attack you for [00:50.85] 'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I had before [00:52.95] Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for [00:55.20] Like this war's really just a different brand of war [00:57.56] Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor [00:59.80] Like they understand you, in the back of their jet [01:02.09] When you can't put gas in your tank [01:03.86] These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their check [01:06.58] Asking you to have compassion and have some respect [01:09.07] For a leader so nervous in an obvious way [01:11.22] Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay [01:13.43] And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day [01:15.97] In the living room, laughing like, "What did he say?" [01:18.26] Amen [01:22.04] Amen [01:26.56] Amen [01:31.21] Amen [01:35.76] Amen [01:41.38] In my living room watching it, but I am not laughing [01:44.36] 'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen [01:46.05] The war is cold, the bold men take action [01:48.23] Have to react to get blown into fractions [01:50.94] Ten years old, there's something to see [01:52.90] Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep [01:55.18] Taken and bound and found later under a tree [01:57.24] I wonder if he had thought 'the next one could be me' [01:59.69] Do you see the soldiers that are out today? [02:01.93] They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away [02:04.18] It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray [02:06.51] But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday [02:08.97] There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads [02:11.26] Inside your market, your shops, and your clothes [02:13.66] My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know [02:15.82] But enough pride inside not to let that show [02:18.05] My brother had a book he would hold with pride [02:20.53] A little red cover with a broken spine on the back [02:23.52] He hand-wrote a quote inside [02:25.24] "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die" [02:27.40] Meanwhile, the leader just talks away [02:29.70] Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay [02:32.12] The rest of the world watching at the end of the day [02:34.43] Both scared and angry, like "What did he say?" [02:36.53] Amen [02:40.49] Amen [02:44.98] Amen [02:49.77] Amen [02:54.15] Amen [02:54.80] With hands held high into a sky so blue [02:59.43] As the ocean opens up to swallow you [03:03.64] With hands held high into a sky so blue [03:08.66] As the ocean opens up to swallow you [03:13.39] With hands held high into a sky so blue [03:17.88] As the ocean opens up to swallow you [03:22.40] With hands held high into a sky so blue [03:27.19] As the ocean opens up to swallow you [03:31.66] With hands held high into a sky so blue [03:36.34] As the ocean opens up to swallow you [03:40.89] With hands held high into a sky so blue [03:45.19] As the ocean opens up to swallow you [03:48.92]