LINKIN PARK-WRETCHES AND KINGS LYRICS

"There’s a time when the 
operation of the machine 
becomes so odious, 
makes you so sick at 
heart, that you can’t 
take part; you can’t even 
passively take part, and 
you’ve got to put your 
bodies upon the gears 
and upon the wheels, 
upon the levers, upon all 
the apparatus, and 
you’ve got to make it 
stop." 

To save face / how low 
can you go 
Talk a lot of game but 
yet you don’t know 
Static on the way / make 
us all say whoa 
The people up top push 
the people down low 
Get down 
And obey every word 
Steady getting mine if 
you haven’t yet heard 
Wanna take what I got / 
don’t be absurd 
Don’t fight the power / 
nobody gets hurt 
If you haven’t heard yet 
then I’m letting you 
know 
There ain’t shit we don’t 
run when the guns 
unload 
And no one make a move 
unless my people say so 
Got everything outta 
control 
Now everybody go 

Steel unload / final blow 
We the animals take 
control 
Hear us now / clear and 
true 
Wretches and kings we 
come for you 

So keep pace / how slow 
can you go 
Talk a lot of shit and yet 
you don’t know 
Fire on the way / make 
you all say whoa 
The people up top and 
the people down low 
Get down 
And I’m running it like 
that 
The front of the attack is 
exactly where I’m at 
Somewhere in between 
the kick and the hi hat 
The pen and the contract 
The pitch and the 
contact 
So get with the combat / 
I’m letting ‘em know 
There ain’t shit you can 
say to make me back 
down no 
So / push the button let 
the whole thing blow 
Spinning everything 
outta control 
Now everybody go 

Steel unload / final blow 
We the animals take 
control 
Hear us now / clear and 
true 
Wretches and kings we 
come for you 

Steel unload / fire blow 
Filthy animals / beat 
them low 
Skin and bone / black and 
blue 
No more this sun shall 
beat onto you 

From the front to the 
back and the side to side 
If you fear what I feel put 
‘em up real high 

"There’s a time when the 
operation of the machine 
becomes so odious, 
makes you so sick at 
heart, that you can’t 
take part; you can’t even 
passively take part, and 
you’ve got to put your 
bodies upon the gears 
and upon the wheels, 
upon the levers, upon all 
the apparatus, and 
you’ve got to make it 
stop. And you’ve got to 
indicate to the people 
who run it, to the people 
who own it, that unless 
you’re free, the machine 
will be prevented from 
working at all."