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lyrics

Let there be light like a shattered sun. Let it fall down to pieces.
Let those rays strike everyone trying to spark a revolution.
You go to them with your problems but they ain't got no solution.
There's only one thing left to do. It's time to rise Up Up Up.
Here they come. They all got guns and maybe you got guns.
Whether pushing in the streets or working their fast food.
Best believe that's what they want you to do.
You protest in peace they will mace you in your face
Stick a flower in their rifle, they're firing anyway.
You organize the streets and they will blow you to your grave
But every fighter in their grave has brought us closer to change
Regardless of what they say, voting every eight years won't do it.
They make us empty promises we try to hold them to it.
You miss a house payment man, they gonna hold you to it.
They will show up to your home and teach you you could lose it all.
Well when's it our turn? Take back that shit that they know they ain't earn
Take back that white house our money paid for
When they raise the price of food then refuse to pay us more. Damn.
So now we starving in the streets.
They flying private jets just to find something to eat,
No Child Left Behind so they drag them by their feet
And when we try to free their mind, they sick their police on us.
Let there be light like a shattered sun. Let it fall down to pieces.
Let those rays strike everyone trying to spark a revolution.
You go to them with your problems but they aint got no solution.
There's only one thing left to do. It's time ton try Love Love Love.
Love for thy neighbor. Love for they hater.
love for our kids they kill like violent strangers.
Love for the ghetto that educates while it cage us.
Evicted by Freddie mac, it always embraced us
We won't go down like that; divide and defeat us.
Classic war tactics they always throw at us.
Damn that is tragic they've defined our blackness.
When we are all brown and all love is magic.
So we turn people into labels.
Easier to murder someone you can not relate to.
Easier to starve a kid when they ain't at your table
And we are all pawns in a politicians fable. Damn
What a shame shame.
They're stepping on the poor but it's the poor to blame
We soak up all the news and watch a wolf play dress up.
Never take your truth from the mouth of the oppressor. peace.
Let there be light like a shattered sun. Let it fall down to pieces.
Let those rays strike everyone trying to spark a revolution.
You go to them with your problems but they aint got no solution.
There's only one thing left to do. It's time to rise Up Up Up.
It's time to try Love, Love Love.
It's time to wake Up, Up, Up
It's time to rise Up, Up, Up

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from Pocket Change, released August 30, 2014

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