Hands Held High is the seventh track on Linkin Park's album Minutes to Midnight. It is a rap song performed by Mike Shinoda to a military style drumbeat. Along with Bleed It Out, it is the only song to feature Shinoda's rapping vocals. Stylistically it is quite similar to Shinoda's side project, Fort Minor, most notably between Hands Held High and the fourth single from Fort Minor's album, Where'd You Go. The chorus consists of the entire band singing "Amen" as a choir. In live performances, Chester Bennington sings the chorus alone. At the end of the song, Mike Shinoda sings "With hands held high into a sky so blue, until the ocean opens up to swallow you", making it one of the four songs on the album to feature his singing vocals (the other three being In Between, The Little Things Give