The time has come to Make a difference Raise our voices So rise up and fight with me Embrace what we have It might be the last time In this life we will rise If we find the strength to unify Rise inside

And there's nowhere to go but up There's nowhere to go but up Life's a balloon That tumbles or rises Depending on what is inside Fill it with hope And playful surprises And oh, deary ducks Then you're in for a ride

And I don't know how we So leave me at the roadside And hang me up and out to dry The places inside me that I find Woke up one day somehow thought we knew 'Cause I don't know And I don't think you see Exactly what we're supposed to do

(Break it to me) Don't dress it up but don't beat around the bush And don't cover it up but don't push it underground And don't keep it inside and don't edit and redact And no dumbing it down I know how to mend I can rise high above the ashes I'll

(Whoa) it's unforgettable I feel a rise inside me It's untouchable (whoa) Like breathing fire in me With blind eyes open wide I'm seeing it I'm feeling higher It's unforgettable I'm coming alive, I'm coming alive

I've felt the hate rise up in me Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves Inside my shell, I wait and bleed I wonder out where you can't see You haven't learned a thing I haven't changed a thing My flesh was in my bones The pain was always free

The deepest gray forever lives inside of me But I am not afraid for I have lived this agony And so my patience thins Could blood not be so sweet Or flow enough to sustain Two hundred nine tomorrow's rise And I'm alone again Please not this way So sweet

All rise, Eyes bow, Time feels like a midnight ride, Finality waits outside, Weeping in perplexity's arms, The unsettled mind is at times an ally, Leaving the senses to fend for them selves, Caressing our smiles inside, The National debt is at times an

Rise, rise above the tides Now lost at sea The weights will pull you under if you don’t fight She'd rather let the ocean take her inside it’s wake Let the water fill her lungs like the air she hates to breathe It’s over now, yourself could give up on

Along deserted avenues Steam begins to rise The figures primed and ready Prepared for quick surprise He's watchin' for a sign His life is on the line Dogs whine in the alleys Smoke is on the wind From deep inside its empty shell