Rise

Friends, foes, and firewood

Are gathering in the tenements tonight

The fast one amongst them brings home food for those too slow

For too many years they have lived on these streets

Their freedom just a memory as the darkness repeats

But somehow everything is turning upside down

And they've been sleeping in the subway

The only place they call their own

And eventually they rise, yes they rise

And they rise in their own way

They rise in their own

Daughter ran away today

Didn't have a lot to say

They wondered why

She comes home twice a week to wash her clothes

And watch her mother cry

There's too many eyes watching her family home

The seeds of revolution inside her are sown

And somehow everything is turning upside down

They they've been sleeping in the subway

The only place they call their own

Eventually they rise, yes the rise

And they rise in their own way

They rise in their own way

They will rise up

They will rise

Her only daughter left her many years ago

And still she don't know why

She said don't you worry mother

You will never see me cry

Yes they rise in their own way

Yes they rise in their own way

And they rise in their own way

Yes they rise in their own way

They will rise

They will rise up