Turn my
Mic up louder I got to say something
Light weights 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 drumming


Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
$#&@ 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 the 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 $#&@ers are laughing their way to the bank, cashing the check
Asking you to have the passion 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?"


[Chorus]
Amen

Amen
Amen
Amen

Amen
[End 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 or get blown into fractions


Ten years old it's something to see
Another kid my age drug under the jeep


Taken and bound and found later under the tree
I wonder if he had 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?"


[Chorus]
Amen
Amen
Amen

Amen
Amen

With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you


With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you

With hands held high into a sky so blue

As the ocean opens up to swallow you

With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you

With hands held high into a sky so blue

As the ocean opens up to swallow you

With hands held high into a sky so blue
As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[End Chorus]