Together we rise
Like fire and smoke
Together we conspire
So we never lose hope
Together reach higher
Than you ever could know
Meet destiny
Together we
Together we rise
Like fire and smoke
Together we conspire
So we never lose hope
Together reach higher
Than you ever could know
Together we
RISE
Together we
Together we
Together we
Rise together
We rise together
We rise together
We raise up
Whatever the days have brought
In every phase
We're setting the stage up
With memories of better ways
Of breaking bread with neighbors
When I share with you it's an honor, not a favor
Everybody is a stranger
In a strange land
Til we make plans
To be otherwise
Raise hands up to the skies
Like water vapors that arise
From the cold street like butterflies
Or breakdancers doing boomerangs
Coming back home to one great family of human beings
Look into each other's eyes
See a whole world
Of a size only the most high could know
Dreams of a dozen lifetimes
Flood bloodlines
Flowing right below
The patchwork tapestry
That we call skin
Recall relatives like lightning bolts
Thunder rolls down an ocean from an icicle
So whenever my eyes are closed
I'm praying we can keep love alive
Clutch tight to the rainbows
To the sunsets and the northern lights
To the flesh tones spanning every shade
Of luscious bright dust
That provides us sustenance
Please don't ever let me be color blind
Sing a lullaby
Together we
Together we
Together we rise
Like fire and smoke
Together we conspire
So we never lose hope
Together reach higher
Than you ever could know
Meet destiny
Together we
Together we
It's a limit of culture
Repulsive
Circling vultures
Put profits over our hearts
The opposite of what we should want
But we've got is a pit in the middle of democracy
Hostiley an avocado seed
We could pot and start watering
Stop tossing rocks at the other team
There's profit in othering
Punishing gossip among other things
Impossible policy
Policing all of the smothered dreams
An abundance of tongue and cheek
Leaves some of us wondering
How love for governments
Not What suffers in front me
Riga Mortis
And some chorus chords
Rising tides and lower shores
Democratize
How we all rise
Like neither side is keeping score
With rock-solid accomplishments
Our byproduct is monuments
Those who climb as conquerors
We rise up as the opposition
Together we rise like fire and smoke
Together we conspire so we never lose hope
Together reach higher than you ever could know
Meet destiny
Together we
Together we
Rise
Together we
Together we
Together we
Together we
Together we rise