So much pain, we don't know how to be but angry Feel infected like we 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 Can you see by the dawn's early light, free slaves running, songs, words weren't right Now a new day's coming, the feud stays done and while the many are handsome Your soul is alive but they want it for ransom, the bass drumming is the anthem We step to the heartbeats of our granddaughters and grandsons 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 versed the T's? React automatic and we burst with squeeze, and make 9-11 each emergency Urgency, ambitious like the turning leaves, oh please let the hurtin' 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 then cotton and Rise together we rise, together we rise, together we rise Rise together we rise, together we rise, together we rise Rise together we rise, together we rise, together we rise If you believe in redemption, I'm calling to you from another dimension If you believe in redemption, I'm calling to you from another dimension