Hands Held High chords by
Linkin Park
Linkin Park

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Key: A major
Intro 1
Bb
Bb
F
F
Gm
Gm
Gm
Gm
Eb
Eb
Eb
Eb
Bb
Bb
F
F
Bb
Bb
Bb
Bb
Verse 1
Bb
Bb
Turn my mic up louder
I got to say something
F
F
Lightweights stepping aside
When we come in
Gm
Gm
Feel it in your chest
The syllables get pumping
People on the street
They panic and start running
Eb
Eb
Words on loose leaf
Sheet complete coming
I jump on my mind
I summon the rhyme I'm dumping
Bb
Bb
Healing the blind
I promise to let the sun in
F
F
Sick of the dark ways
We march to the drumming
Bb
Bb
Jump when they tell us
They want to see jumping
F
F
Fuck that, I want to see some fist pumping
Gm
Gm
Risk something
Take back what's yours
Say something that you know
They might attack you for
Eb
Eb
'Cause I'm sick of being treated
Like I had before
Like it's stupid standing for
What I'm standing for
Bb
Bb
Like this war is really just
A different brand of war
F
F
Like it doesn't cater the rich
And an abandon the poor
Pre-chorus 1
Gm
Gm
Like they understand you
In the back of the jet
Eb
Eb
When you can't put gas in your tank
Bb
Bb
These fuckers are laughing their way
To the bank and cashing their check
F
F
Asking you to have compassion
and to have some respect
Gm
Gm
For a leader so nervous In an obvious way
Eb
Eb
Stuttering and mumbling
For nightly news to replay
Bb
Bb
And the rest of the world
Watching at the end of the day
F
F
In the living room laughing
Like what did he say?
Chorus 1
Gm
Gm
Eb
Eb
Amen, amen
Bb
Bb
F
F
Bb
Bb
Amen, amen, amen
Verse 2
Bb
Bb
In my living room watching
But I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense
F
F
I know what might happen
Gm
Gm
The world is cold
The bold men take action
Have to react
Or get blown into fractions
Eb
Eb
Ten years old is something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep
Bb
Bb
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
F
F
I wonder if he thought
the "next one could be me"
Bb
Bb
Do you see?
The soldiers they're out today
That brush the dust
F
F
from bulletproof vests away
Gm
Gm
It's ironic
At times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
Eb
Eb
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your markets, your shops, your clothes
Bb
Bb
My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know
F
F
But enough pride inside not to let that show
Pre-chorus 2
Gm
Gm
My brother had a book
he would hold with pride
Eb
Eb
A little red cover with a broken spine
Bb
Bb
In the back he hand wrote a quote inside
F
F
"When the rich wage war,
it's the poor who die"
Gm
Gm
Meanwhile the leader just talks away
Eb
Eb
Stuttering and mumbling
For nightly news to replay
Bb
Bb
The rest of the world
Watching at the end of the day
F
F
Both scared and angry
Like what did he say?
Chorus 2
Gm
Gm
Eb
Eb
Amen, amen
Bb
Bb
F
F
Amen, amen
Outro 1
Gm
Gm
With hands held high
Eb
Eb
Into a sky so blue
Bb
Bb
As the o cean opens up
F
F
To swallow you
Gm
Gm
With hands held high
Eb
Eb
Into a sky so blue
Bb
Bb
As the o cean opens up
F
F
To swallow you
Gm
Gm
With hands held high
Eb
Eb
Into a sky so blue
Bb
Bb
As the o cean opens up
F
F
To swallow you
Gm
Gm
With hands held high
Eb
Eb
Into a sky so blue
Bb
Bb
As the o cean opens up
F
F
To swallow you
Gm
Gm
With hands held high
Eb
Eb
Into a sky so blue
Bb
Bb
As the o cean opens up
F
F
To swallow you
Gm
Gm
With hands held high
Eb
Eb
Into a sky so blue
Bb
Bb
As the o cean opens up
F
F
To swallow you

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb F Gm Eb