[Verse 1] [M] Let me take you back in time [F] Just climb in my '72 Camaro [M] California '98 [F] We stood in line and started pourin' in [M] That concert in the dark at Red rocks [F] That auditorium [M/F] Was church for me, yeah I believe [M/F] The first time I was born again [Chorus] [M/F] Put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [M/F] If you ain't perfect but you try [M/F] Put 'em way up to the sky [M/F] Touchin' heaven kinda high [M/F] Ain't that where we wanna go when we go [M/F] Whoa, whoa, whoa [M/F] Just put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [Verse 2] [M] Was Killing In The Name [F] California on the Parade road [M] LA packed in the pit [F] Me and all those people people called nothing but troubled kids [M] If there was ever a fire in me [F] Yeah that's the night I got it lit [M] I knew who I was born to be [F] When he said [Chorus] [M/F] Put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [M/F] If you ain't perfect but you try [M/F] Put 'em way up to the sky [M/F] Touchin' heaven kinda high [M/F] Ain't that where we wanna go when we go [M/F] Whoa, whoa, whoa [M/F] Just put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [Verse 3] [M] Let's take it down there [F] West of town [M] I'm 22, up to no good [F] Dressed in black, I broke the glass to take back the bag of grass they took [M] That story end's against the fence [F] Right in that dead end neighborhood [M] Cop's told me what I told them [F] When he said boy [Chorus] [M/F] Put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [M/F] If you ain't perfect but you try [M/F] Put 'em way up to the sky [M/F] Touchin' heaven kinda high [M/F] Ain't that where we wanna go when we go [M/F] Whoa, whoa, whoa [M/F] Just put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [Verse 4] [M] Our last stop's that little cross [F] I came across some years ago [M] Comin' down and hidin' out [F] Back there in that ol' sinner's row [M] The devil on my shoulder [F] Finally found him somewhere else to go [M] I never did believe in ghosts [F] 'Til the holy one told me to throw my hands up [Chorus] [M/F] Oh Lord, I threw my hands up [M/F] Put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [M/F] If you ain't perfect but you try [M/F] Put 'em way up to the sky [M/F] Touchin' heaven kinda high [M/F] Ain't that where we wanna go when we go [M/F] Whoa, whoa, whoa [M/F] Just put your hands up [M/F] Everybody put your hands up [Verse 5] [M] I was underground first [F] Before the lights and the dust [M] Before the whole wide room [F] Before the crowd knew my face and
