The Litigant

Intro (Xantoné Blacq)
(Multiple simultaneous adlibs)

Chorus x2 (Xantoné Blacq)
Hey, hey, everybody, you know we got to keep on rising
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising)
I said climb up (climb up), step up (step up)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Everybody, you know we got to keep on rising
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising)
I said climb up (climb up), step up (step up)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Keep on growing (keep on going) oh!

Verse One (Funky DL)
What’s going on people? Let’s take it back to the Genesis
November 20th, when I was on the precipice
I’m born 24 hours later, exposed to elements
I’m cold and hungry and tired, you can call me a pessimist
Let’s run a couple health checks and then review the evidence
Now you can take your bundle of joy, get off the premises
I’m growing up in troubling times ranging from terrorists
To Politicians ruining lives, but talk benevolence
I guess it’s just a clash of Titans without the Pegasus
By age five I gotta’ go school so I can benefit
From what they say will provide you with academic excellence
Boost my intelligence with lessons of irrelevance
Taught me how to read and write and form a couple sentences
Taught me to communicate and where to place the emphasis
Made a couple friends, a couple kids were like my nemesis
Boys gotta’ be boys, so there was lots of recklessness
Fist fights, fending off bullies, my blows were generous
I disliked sharing my goodies and that’s my prejudice
I’d tell you everything on my mind like you my therapist
And anything significant, my brain would say remember this
So as the years go, it ain’t too hard to reminisce
And I was born the year of the snake, so call me venomous
That’s what I need to get by from all the cleverness
The sly want a piece of the pie from all our special gifts

Chorus (Xantoné Blacq)
Hey everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, ooh
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising)
I said climb up (climb up), rise up (rise up)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Hey everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, yeah
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising)
I said climb up (climb up), step up (step up)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going)

Verse Two (Funky DL)
So from now on people, let’s take it forward like we front facing
Legacies and fundraising, not just blunt chasing
Hard training, not complaining, while you sunbathing
Most of the population can’t even rely on savings
They say the route of suffering is craving
Consumerism is enslaving the minds, there’s no escaping
Everybody wanna’ enter entertainment for paper chasing
Rather be famous and be aimless over being nameless
Meanwhile the powers that be maintain surveillance
From your profile status to your interfering fucking neighbors
Cos’ if your prosperous, somebody wanna turn the tables
And even those that’s close to you commit betrayal
I’m just saying to be careful, simultaneous to be courageous
Do me a favour, this is more than just some words on paper
We gotta move like it’s second nature
To be a generation moving from minor until we touch major
Huh, and write the rules like we legislators
Cos’ life is like playing a game of chess with the Creator
Where the Devil only stands on your side of the table
Making suggestions on your next move like he a player in your life
That’s how the tables get turned
Cos’ you can be on top of everything then crash and then burn
Like when you meet someone you like, at first you thinking just wow
But get to know em’, now they calling and you thinking what now?

Chorus (Xantoné Blacq)
Oh everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, huh
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising)
I said stand up (stand up), rise up (rise up)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, yeah
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising)
Stand up (stand up), hold on (hold on)
Keep on going (keep on going)
Keep on going, keep on going (keep on going)

Outro (Xantoné Blacq)
(With multiple simultaneous adlibs)
Hey, we’ve gotta’, we gotta’ find a way, we gotta’
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh…
Everybody, everybody, everybody, body, body
Come one, stand up
(together you and I…find a way)
Keep strong