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 running?

Song's words weren't right, now a new day's coming

The few stay stunnin' while the many are handsome

Your soul is alive, but they want it for ransom

The base 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

Lost hope and found need

Grounded by our 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 turnin' leaves

Oh, please let the hurtin' cease

And 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 together

Rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

We rise together, we rise together

If you believe in redemption

I'm callin' to you from another dimension

If you believe in redemption

I'm callin' to you from another dimension

If you believe in redemption

I'm callin' to you from another dimension

If you believe in redemption

I'm callin' to you from another dimension