Rise

(When I am dead, wrap the mantle of the red, the black and the green around me, for in a new life I shall rise up)

Everywhere the voice of the generation
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who hears what I'm saying
Can't tell people shit
Cause they take it personally
Open them ears
You better listen to me
Cause we are killing them trees
And we're polluting these seas
Taking these bitches like they ain't got no feelings
But that is somebody's daughter
And if you're somebody's father
Then you can judge what she offers
Cause she just wants you to want it now

Imma tell the truth till I die
And Imma keep my head to the sky
You never hear the truth in a lie
Got a lot of reasons but no reasons why

We don't change
We play games
We want fame
We bought chains
We join gangs
We love them
We ain't change
We're all the same

(life I shall rise up)
Children of the sun
(life I shall rise up)
Rise
(life I shall rise up)
Please don't shed a tear
(life I shall rise up)
Out those eyes
(life I shall rise up)
Don't you have no fear
Cause I am with you
Please don't ever fear
Cause I am with you

(to lead the millions to the heights of triumph, that you well know)

You can't see a real woman for her beauty
We love shallow bitches with blessing smiles and fake booties
We don't really know what true love is
Cause daddy left the home when we was kids
Not to have someone to look up to
Now we in the streets
Acting cool, getting tattoos
Momma never really had control
Just a troubled woman with a perfect soul

So

Imma tell the truth till I die
And Imma keep my head to the sky
You never hear the truth in a lie
Got a lot of reasons but no reasons why

We don't change
We play games
We want fame
We bought chains
We join gangs
We love them
We ain't change
We're all the same

(life I shall rise up)
Children of the sun
(life I shall rise up)
Rise
(life I shall rise up)
Please don't shed a tear
(life I shall rise up)
Out those eyes
(life I shall rise up)
Don't you have no fear
Cause I am with you
Please don't ever know fear
Cause I am with you

I ain't afraid of nothing
(We’ve prayed to God for vision and for leadership)
Except for what I could become
(A vision that will not limit our possibilities to America)
Sometimes we are born to something
(Because the time has come for the Black man to forget his hero worship of other races [cheer])
Sometimes we just die with none

Children of the sun (of the sun)
Rise
Please don't shed a tear (shed a tear)
Out those eyes
Don't you have no fear
Cause I am with you
Please don't ever know fear
Cause I am with you

Cause I am with you

Cause I am