Close your eyes, take one slow breath

Feel the night unclench its grip

Do you remember when the skyline used to spark like wet paint at first light

When every promise felt elastic enough to wrap around the whole day

You lost that glow somewhere between rent cheques and careless remarks

But I can still hear it flicker beneath the armour you built for Monday

So shake the rust off every "can't"

Let tomorrow hear you whisper "try"

We rise again

We rise again

We rise again

Ri-i-ise … mm-mm-mm

Friends said the ladder was broken, but you kept climbing made-up rungs

The air thinned, the laughter thinned, your faith thinned – yet here you are, breathing

What if the bruise is simply proof that hope was heavy enough to carry

What if the crack in the lens lets a kinder sunrise in

Hold that thought like candle glass

Guard the flame until it answers back

We rise again

We rise again

We rise again

Oh-oh-oh … rise again