Rize

Rise, rise (oh-yeah), time to get up and rise
Rise, rise (oh-yeah), time to stand up and rise

So much for fallen soldiers
Don't let them die in vain
So much for freedom fighters (it's now that we feel your pain)
So much for so-called justice (justice)
A martyr's sacrifice
Got gunned down during the protest
Demanding our equal rights, equal rights, hey

Rise, rise, got to get up and rise
Rise, rise (oh-yeah), got to stand up and rise

Built your goddamn country (country)
And reaping no rewards (the land of milk and honey)
We've even fought your wars
Confined to the backs of the buses
We've even took all of your blows
How we survive the burning crosses
Only heaven knows, heaven knows, heaven knows

We say rise (rise), rise (rise), got to get up and rise
We say rise (rise), rise (rise) got to stand up and rise
We say rise oh, we say rise oh
Got to get up and rise
Exercise your human rights
Come, we get out of this plight

Rise, rise, rise
Come out of your slumber (rise), oh-yeah
Rise, rise, rise
Keep growing in numbers (no jestering)

So much for your redlining
Forever tryna keep us back
'Cause we're the Windrush generation
Who won't take any more of that, hey

Rise (rise), rise (rise), got to get up and rise
Rise (rise), rise (rise), got to stand up and rise
We say rise oh, we say rise oh
Got to stand up and rise
It's your demise if you're not wise
Got to move forward and rise

Got to get up (get up, get up)
Got to stand up, yeah (stand up, stand up)
Got to march on, yeah (Uprising)
Got to move on and rise
Your fork tongue and your treaties, yeah, with too much hypocrisy
We gonna rise, rise, rise from incarceration (no jestering)

Speak about it, about it, yeah, whoa-oh
Rise, rise, rise
Got to stand up and rise
Time to stand up and rise
Got to stand up and rise
Got to get up and rise
Time to stand up and rise

Got to get up and rise
Time to stand up and rise
Got to get up, got to get up
Got to get organised