Lyrics

I'm looking back on my old life, I'm giving thanks to the most high, cause I could've been anything, dead or in jail or addicted to heroin, cause this world is a scary place, where they teach us how to hate, the people that we don't know, but they don't know that we all came from one soul, okay I'm not with this show, with terrorists though I'm a criminal, you can blame a scapegoat, but I pray for peace and not war, I said I'm not with this show, with terrorists though I'm a criminal, you can blame a scapegoat, but I pray for peace and not war, rise up, I'm gonna make a difference, rise up, take back what's mine, rise up, give power to the people, rise up, some dreams never die, rise up, can I get a witness, rise up, you know that it's right, rise up, cause we gotta rise up, rise up, rise up, and teach the world to unite, yeah, you see this life set up to get you down, take a look around, step out, smile on your face, return home with a frown, this world's full of imperfections, hatred and corruption, everybody's suffering from anxiety, now everybody's got depression, let this life get the better of them, and it's all meant to be lessons, all your high expectations set you up for disappointment, quick to look outside the box and complain about those problems, but we still ain't took a minute to solve the problems that's within them, we hate on each other more than the people hate on us, we need rehabilitation, we need more than us to rise up, sending a broadcast to our women, telling them they need to be careful, while your brother's in his house beating his wife up till she's tearful, then we stand in a mosque close together waiting for the prayer to start, looking like a united team but our hearts are far apart, see before we complain about the world, need to fix the problems within, we can't even see past the color of each other's skin, it's mad I joined this religion for a change, I'm in about kindness, humility and so paradise within range, told me what happened to that, how can we let the focus be swirled, we need to get back on track, show this religion to the world and rise up, rise up, I'm gonna make a difference, take back what's mine, get power to the people, some dreams never die, can I get a witness, you know that it's right, cause we gotta rise up, and teach the world to unite, this is for the haters and the dictators and the debaters, cause love's greater than the bomb, keep calm got the world in my palm, fans from Somalia to Vietnam, cause this blood that flows through my veins is the same so I can't look the other way, so put down the guns cause to save one life is to save everyone, everyone, every son, every mom, feeling your pain cause this ummah is one, they taking our lives but they wrong, cause to the lord of the worlds we belong, so we gotta wake up and sound the alarm, all my people get up before we are gone, cause we ain't gotta fight if we just unite, and tell the world to rise up, rise up, I'm gonna make a difference, take back what's mine, get power to the people, some dreams never die, can I get a witness, you know that it's right, cause we gotta rise up, and teach the world to unite, the time is now, history is written by those who take a stance, we can no longer be quiet, we will no longer be silent, those who seek to oppress us will be faced with resistance, I will not be a victim, I will not be a statistic, the system is sick, and we are its cure, doesn't matter your religion, your race, your gender, we will rise up together, we will be remembered, rise up, rise up, rise up, rise up, rise up, rise up, I'm gonna make a difference, take back what's mine, get power to the people, some dreams never die, can I get a witness, you know that it's right, cause we gotta rise up, and teach the world to unite,