RISE - Darryl Braithwaite
Intro: (x2)
Verse 1
Friends, foes and firewood are gathering in the tenements tonight
While the fast ones amongst them brings home food for those too slow
For many years they have lived on the streets
And their freedom just a memory as the darkness repeats
But somehow everything is turning upside down
Pre Chorus
And they ve been sleeping in the subway
The only place they call their own
Eventually they rise, yes they rise and they
Chorus
Rise in their own way
Rise in their own way
Verse 2
Their daughters ran away today, She 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
Now the seeds of revolution inside her are sown
And somehow everything is turning upside down
And they ve been sleeping in the subway
The only place they call their own
Eventually they rise, yes they rise and they
Rise in their own way
Rise in their own way
Verse 3
Her only daughter left her many years ago and still she dont know why
She said, don t you worry mother you will never see me cry?
Eventually they rise, yes they rise and they
Rise in their own way
Rise in their own way
Note: You can substitute the C s after the D s for Em s if you think that
sounds better
