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RISE © School Time Music LLC
Written by Kaitlin McGaw, Tommy Shepherd. Music by Derrick Okoth, Torrance Esmond. Produced by D.O. Speaks & Street Symphony. With excerpts from “America is Black” by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, and speech by President Barack Obama. Features Genevieve Goings, with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Mista Cookie Jar, Aaron Nigel Smith, and youth poets Aissa Negus and Omari Diltz.

INTRO
If you can’t fly ,what can you do? RUN
If you can’t run, what can you do? WALK
If you can’t walk, what can you do? CRAWL
If you can’t crawl, what can you do? ROLL
Whatever it is we got to keep it moving - Rise!

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” President Barack Obama

I have a dream
I have a dream
Yea I float like a butterfly sting like a bee ---
Gonna be the change in the world that we gotta see…
Yes I fall down, time and time again
I fall down time and time again I fall
But still I rise, Rise, rise, rise ---

Still I rise

People say amazing things
People do amazing things
People are amazing beings
You are what amazing is

POEM - Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
America is black
It is native
It wears a hijab
It is a spanish speaking tongue
It is migrant
It is a woman
It is here -- has been here
And it’s not going anywhere

CHORUS
YOU ARE BORN TO TOUCH THE SKY
YOU ARE HERE TO LIVE THAT LIFE
DREAM HIGH - DREAM WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT
CUZ YOU ARE BORN TO TOUCH THE SKY
You may get me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
You may hurt me with your hatefulness
Nonetheless still I rise
You may get me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
You may hurt me with your hatefulness
Nonetheless just like air still I rise

If they call us bad names - look them in the eye
If they push us down - be a true ally
If they try to build a wall, we won’t comply
Cuz when they go low --- we go high

They go low - we go high
They go low - we go high
They go low - we go high

If you can’t fly ,what can you do? RUN
If you can’t run, what can you do? WALK
If you can’t walk, what can you do? CRAWL
If you can’t crawl, what can you do? ROLL
People say amazing things
People do amazing things
People are amazing beings
You are what amazing is
If you can’t fly ,what can you do? RUN
If you can’t run, what can you do? WALK
If you can’t walk, what can you do? CRAWL
If you can’t crawl, what can you do? ROLL
People say amazing things
People do amazing things
People are amazing beings
You are what amazing is

CHORUS
YOU ARE BORN TO TOUCH THE SKY
YOU ARE HERE TO LIVE THAT LIFE
DREAM HIGH - DREAM WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT
CUZ YOU ARE BORN TO TOUCH THE SKY
YOU ARE BORN TO TOUCH THE SKY
YOU ARE HERE TO LIVE THAT LIFE
DREAM HIGH - DREAM WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT
CUZ YOU ARE BORN TO TOUCH THE SKY

You may get me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes - I rise
You may get me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes - I rise

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from Rise Shine #Woke (GRAMMY Nominated), released September 1, 2017

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