(When I am dead, wrap the mantle of the red, the black and the green around me, for in the new life I shall rise)
Said we were the voice of the generation
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who hears what I'm sayin'
Can't tell people shit
Cuz they take it personally
Open them ears
You better listen to me
Cuz we are killing them trees
And we're polluting these seas
Taking these bitches like they ain't got no feelings
But that is somebody's daughter
And if you're somebody's father
Then you can judge what she offers
Cause she just wants you to want her now
Im'a tell the truth til I die
And Im'a keep my head to the sky
You never hear the truth in a lie
Got a lot of reasons but no reasons why
We don't change
We play games
We want fame
We buy chains
We join gangs
We love pain
We ain't changed
We're all the same
(life I shall rise)
Children of the Son
(life I shall rise)
Rise
(life I shall rise)
Please don't shed a tear
(life I shall rise)
Out those eyes
(life I shall rise)
Don't you have no fear
Cuz I am with you
Please don't have no fear
Cuz I am with you
(to lead the millions up the heights of the triumph...
....that you well know)
You can't see a real woman for her beauty
We love shallow bitches with plastic smiles and fake booties
We don't really know what true love is
Cuz daddy left our home when we was kids
Never had someone to look up to
Now we in the streets
Actin cool, gettin' tattoos
Momma never really had control
Just a troubled woman with a perfect soul
So
Im'a tell the truth til I die
And Im'a keep my head to the sky
You never hear the truth in a lie
Got a lot of reasons but no reasons why
We don't change
We play games
We want fame
We buy chains
We join gangs
We love pain
We ain't changed
We're all the same
(life I shall rise)
Children of the Son
(life I shall rise)
Rise
(life I shall rise)
Please don't shed a tear
(life I shall rise)
Out those eyes
(life I shall rise)
Don't you have no fear
Cuz I am with you
Please don't ever know fear
Cuz I am with you
I ain't afraid of nothing
(We’ve prayed to God for vision and for leadership)
Except for what I could become
(A vision that will not limit our possibilities to America)
Sometimes we are born to something
(Because the time has come for the Black man to forget his hero worship of other races [cheer])
Sometimes we just die with none
Children of the Son (of the Son)
Rise
Please don't shed a tear (shed a tear)
Out those eyes
Don't you ever know fear
Cuz I am with you
Please don't ever know fear
Cuz I am with you
Cuz I am with you
Cuz I am with you
Cuz I...
Lyrics Submitted by Neo Paavola