Rise

So much pain

We don't know how to be but angry

Feel infected, like we've got gangrene

Please don't let anybody try to change me

Me, just me

In the middle of a sea, full of faces, full of faces

Some laugh, some salivate

What's in your alleyway, recycling bins or bullet cases?

It's not equal, it's not fair

We're different people, but we're not scared

We ain't never scared to pave a new path

Make a new street, build a new bridge

Say, can you see by the dawn's early light?

Free slaves runnin', songs words weren't right, now a new day's comin'

The few stay stunnin' while the many are handsome

Your soul is alive, but they want it for ransom

The bass drummin' is the anthem

We step to the heartbeats of our granddaughters and grandsons

And rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise

Lost hope and found need

Grounded by your surroundings

Did the walls scream universities

Or you and I verse the T's?

React automatic and we burst when squeezed

And make 9-11 each emergency

Urgency, amber to red like the turning leaves

Oh please, let the hurting cease

Don't let apathy police the populace, we will march across

Those stereotypes that were marked for us

The answer's obvious, we switch the consonants

And change the sword to words and lift continents

Rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise

Rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise

If you believe in redemption (believe in redemption)

I'm calling to you from another dimension (from another dimension)

If you believe in redemption (believe in redemption)

I'm calling to you from another dimension (from another dimension)

If you believe in redemption (believe in redemption)

I'm calling to you from another dimension (from another dimension)

If you believe in redemption (rise, rise)

I'm calling to you from another dimension (rise, rise)