Rise

(album: One Year Ago - 2021)

Rise take your hand and rise
Take a knee and rise
Take your cross and rise

Rise take your brothers hand
Lets all take a stand
Rise rise

I was a grain of sand on a black mans beach
Extend a hand just when a black man reached
10 years I sat and listen to a black man preach
So I gotta listen up just when a black man speaks

Cut from a whole different pattern
Where I grew up I saw them black lives shattered
Guns pop I watched the black lives scatter
So I understand the term that is black lives matter

If your bleeding well it's you that I'm running toward
Not picking sides to fight just in a culture war
I pick the third option I am for the Lord
And I skydive deep into the chaos when I pull the cord

Just know for sure that I am for you
If you are hurting be certain I'm running toward you
If your house is burning well I would not ignore you
You are not a burden I build you up not destroy you

Be honest we got a bias and a prejudice
How about we throw all that bias off the Precipice
I grew up with all kinds of Residents
So I understand the deeper meaning of all of these messages

But it's the hate that I ain't messing with
If I'm quiet understand I probably had to wrestle with
Exactly the right thing to say so I'm hesitant
So I understand right there where my hope plus my blessing is

Rise take your hand and rise
Take a knee and rise
Take your cross and rise

I said
Rise take your brothers hand
Lets all take a stand
Rise rise

I said
Black lives shattered scattered
But God knows that black lives mattered

Black lives shattered scattered
But God knows that black lives mattered