Toki Wright - Rise lyrics

[Hook] [Toki Wright]: We keep building, they keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise We keep building, just keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise [Verse One] [Toki Wright]: As the world falls victim to the hands of man Could it be we're damned or is it all part of a plan to make us withstand? Underneath the heavens we use weapons and aggression I got caught up in the lessons to the point it's - wait what was the question? They televise lies organize crime Til we are all blind slowly dying just wanna get high So how you get ahead when you're behind? Hopin' that weather shine We're in a rat race tryna better your time I pace, stop tie my lace, dropped out of place When I saw all the bars on the open gate When I looked at all the stars and I don't relate Then I find it really hard runnin' through the tape Been confused by the rules try to prove payin dues Gonna win in the end now and then we lose What's to prove if ya bruised black and blue? It's ya move do whatcha have to do [Hook] [Toki Wright]: We keep building, they keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise We keep building, just keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise [Scarub]: Yo what's A Raisin In The Sun when there's wine in the shade? A common concept we've accepted over the previous decades Paradise Lost in exchange for time saved Time is money yeah they cause the cost of livin escalates They got us guessin' after every discretion it's a game of charades From the womb to the tomb they still got us enslaved Workin' to beat the hand of time but the clock is man made Labor hard make a living still getting underpaid And they spy on us through our clothes gates blinds and shades Tapped phones laptops our privacy they invade Pumpin propaganda the government wants you afraid So they can control you through fear, that's how they make you behave From the freezer out the box and to the microwave TV dinner food for thought that slop will rot your brain Get ya hooked they overdose ya till ya crave the craze Yeah it's deep but it all leads to a shallow grave [Hook] [Toki Wright]: We keep building, they keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise We keep building, just keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise [Verse Three] [Toki Wright]: Huh... as the bricks and cement try to close us in Put us in the pen where the pen is our only friend Spent every cent on the rent pullin lint Out the inseams dreams are the things that we need I believe if we bury greed when my daughter bury me Finally we could be free self therapy But we gotta strategize think carefully And if I gotta bleed then you gotta bleed [Hook] [Toki Wright]: We keep building, they keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise We keep building, just keep building They start fallin', we are gonna rise