Rise - Daryl Braithwaite

Friends, foes and firewood are gathering in the tenaments tonight

While the fast one amongst them brings home food for those too slow

For too many years they have lived on these streets

And their freedom just a memory as the darkness repeats

But somehow everything is turning upside down

BRIDGE

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 (Repeat)

Their daughter ran away today

Didn’t have a lot to say

They wondered why

She comes in twice a week to wash her clothes and watch her mother cry

There’s too many eyes watching her fmaily home

Now the seeds of revolution inside her are sown

And somehow everything is turning upside down

BRIDGE, CHORUS

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 (Repeat)

And they rise in their own way (Repeat)