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[Hook: Taelor Gray] On that rough side I'm coming up (yeah) Go like this I'm coming up on the rough side of the mountain (of the mountain) (2x) Go like this I'm doing my best (2x) [Verse 1: Taelor Gray] A raisin in the sun, the hazel in my son's eyes Or juxtapose complex stories of Cliff Huxtable Yo rest in peace to them fairytales, but let them die with dignity Ride the middle pa**age of our history When you tear us down we keep on standing up And when you wear us down we keep that banner up High, fly over us you really can't tell prophesying from that Birmingham jail I wish that I could tell the King it wasn't just a dream How many of our brilliant minds was hanging from a tree That's why I look so solemn when you ask me what's the problem Got both my knees down when I'm kneeling next to Colin Like I don't see myself getting too soon I'm teary in the spirit until I'm in that upper room See them cloven tounges of fire got me speaking in yo dialect A nappy-headed rebel came to tell you we ain't dying yet We was murdered, we was torn from our families Deserted in the face of Reconstruction we converted to that everlasting life Sound like preaching isn't sermon, it's a servant taking back his power Give me back my personhood We reappear in rhythms, singing spirituals from prisons We picking up the pieces from the system that you ain't never seen me like a victim look I will rise and greater is the power from my God Never cater to the cowards in disguise Let this labor take the lessons to my children at my side As we imagine heaven taking earth by surprise we gon fly With them wings that Angie Davis gave us Still in certain places revolution couldn't take us Starting writing this while I'm listening to Solange Feeling like everything I'm writing coming out like so lost Taking Black lives matter to the slums With an open Bible, show them what we can become I'm reading Paul's letters and some Stokley Carmichael The mirror is my beauty and my own archrival Look, if you ever see me locking arms in marches Best believe that I've been spending time up in Mark 6 Walking on the waters when He calls It's so many rivers to the ocean [Hook] I'm coming up on the rough side of the mountain (of the mountain) (2x) Go like this I'm doing my best (3x) I'm doing my best to make it in I'm doing my best to make it in to see your love