Phoenix Rising

Octavia taught us To be a phoenix we must First burn I first learned How growth hurts How love works Through heartbreak And time it takes To heal Faith to know that it will And when it does We love deeper than the pain we feel My wings revealed in fire I had to walk through And all the trauma from the burns I had to talk through It took a lot of us to process all the losses We are still on it trying to assess all the causes A fire that’s raging since before we came of conscious Or even took a breath at all We’rе living through them Parables Sowing Talents for a causе How do we imagine what comes after all our buildings fall? And walk together for a vision in our art Here we listen heart to heart Spark matches in the dark Illuminate these pathways that we made that’s off the charts Fire takes Fire gives Fire always plays a part There's some kinds of life that's only made out of fire We're a nomadic tribe made of lovers and of fighters A phoenix wings first must burn before it flies up Assata taught me, Octavia taught us There's some kinds of life that's only made out of fire We're a nomadic tribe made of lovers and of fighters A phoenix wings first must burn before it flies up Assata taught me, Octavia taught us Assata taught me It's our duty to fight It's our duty to win Don't let them steal your light The flame within Your power, your passion The fire to burn oppression To make it through the drought And the man-made recession Stop giving concessions Your spirit is real Collective a spark The fire to heal The deeper we feel The greater the zeal The less we conceal The more we reveal The freer we feel Now that's a real deal I want to live life Life beyond the fight I want to live right Life that honors light Brought me through night See how the sun shines Never denies Beauty that lies deep in her eyes Rise in the sky With rhythm and rhyme We'll set the world right It's beauty from ash Candles we light Vigils at night The darkness it swells And threatens demise The people must rise The phoenix inspires The fire this time There's some kinds of life that's only made out of fire We're a nomadic tribe made of lovers and of fighters A phoenix wings first must burn before it flies up Assata taught me, Octavia taught us There's some kinds of life that's only made out of fire We're a nomadic tribe made of lovers and of fighters A phoenix wings first must burn before it flies up Assata taught me, Octavia taught us