Lord have mercy, oh yeah
We take you higher
We take you higher no living for counterfeit
My people we got to elevate
Uplift yourself
We take you higher
All the ghetto youths dem a suffer
Even though times will get rougher
All the pain and the scars
Let Jah take it all away
Don't be moved from the program
Take your own path in your own hands
Don't you stray to far
Let Jah take it all away
We take you higher
We take you higher no living for counterfeit
My people we got to elevate
Uplift yourself
We take you higher
Learn from our mistakes move on
Focus on our good hold on
Got to keep moving along
Love is on our side yeah
Don't worry about yesterday
Let your troubles fade away
Jah will make a brighter day
Love is on our side yeah
We take you higher
We take you higher no living for counterfeit
My people we got to elevate
Uplift yourself
We take you higher
This is a higher vibration over the nation
Teach the children to be strong yeah
No segregation, one foundation
Jah people time to move as one yeah
Affirmation, education
Teach the youth what's right from wrong yeah
No isolation, incarceration
We won't fall to babylon
We take you higher
We take you higher no living for counterfeit
My people we got to elevate
Uplift yourself
We take you higher
