RISE [Intro]

[Verse: Marlon Craft]

Perfecting my penmanship

Spitting with precision and power, I'm never negligent

You can blow me where I pee and [?]

If hating's your prerequisite

For all us who ain't buying what they selling, it's a masquerade

I'd rather stumble on the path we made

I held my self accountable, long before all my taxes paid

2012 is half as jaded

Now my faith evaporating

Praying for precipitation

Drops of hope that can replace it

The winds of truth could propel you or slow your journey down

Evil don't show you its true intentions, it's flirty now

The powers that be demonise moral obligation

'Cause if you keep settlin' that enables colonisation

I'm often complacent [?]

Lost and impatient

Trapped souls left feeling awkward and vacant

These streets is church

Don't you dare try to alter the pavement you wasn't brought up and raised in and then spend all your days in

That why I don't ever claim to have all the answers

At best, I only know know what questions to ask

[?]

Gaze as they ingesting the trash

Blind to the potential we have, shit

I start to quiver

Liquor invading my liver

The whiskey imperialist

What good is yelling from the roof if nobody hearing this shit?

It's feeling like for us to love each other will take aeons

The media we use is more social than we are

Just tryin' to get my free on 'fore I end this run

And when it's all said and done, I hope I be defined by what I've said and done

My body of work'll be to large for a hearse

They can never bury my heart in the dirt

It's gonna rise

And I don' came a long, long way

You could hate me now

Not a word you could say that could break me down

I'm gonna rise

[Outro: Demarjay Smith]

"Either you work hard for it, or you don’t work hard for it. Me and my brother work hard for our stuff. It don’t come easy, in life you have to work."