Lowkey – We Will Rise Lyrics
Lyrics
Charlie Chaplin
- The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people never perish
- Will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will
Verse 1
- Is it just dream? Am I a fool for trying?
- I stand defiant but my enemy's the tallest giant
- Will my visions be reality? They tell me never
- I wanna feel the unity that Malcolm felt in Mecca
- I wonder if it made sense in his last moments
- People don't value the soul cause they can't hold it
- Find something real beyond death and misery
- And understand the present in the context of history
- It's been established Sykes-Picot was a bitter marriage
- Since the day Thomas Edward Lawrence tricked the Arabs
- I never back stab my people like Abu Mazen
- I'll overthrow the monarchs like Abdul Karim Qassem
- This is a battle that many better men have died fighting
- But I hope to give an insight through my writing
- My pen fires at the men who defend liars
- I send fire till the end of your empire
Hook - Sanasino
- We will fight to live
- We will not give up
- We will not give in
- We will rise
- And through the blood and tears
- We will not give up
- We will not give in
- We will rise
Verse 2
- Guess who's back, descendant of the occupied
- I represent the sentiments of many men you've colonized
- The President is eloquent but he's never been on my side
- Melanin's irrelevant cause everything was prophecised
- There was a time when they talked about the Arab Nation
- Broke our good leaders replaced them with a pack of masons
- Took your Keffiyeh and changed it to a fashion statement
- You sat with Satan, Camp David means assassination
- Peace in your imagination, that's not real
- I've been where Arafat got poisoned and Sadat got killed
- I'm not a martyr, just a man without a Masters or a master
- Trying to unite the people like Abdul Nasser
- This is a battle that many better men have died fighting
- But I hope to give an insight through my writing
- My pen fires at the men who defend liars
- I send fire till the end of your empire
Hook - Sanasino
- We will fight to live
- We will not give up
- We will not give in
- We will rise
- And through the blood and tears
- We will not give up
- We will not give in
- We will rise
Verse 3
- If you're my brother, you're my brother but please be loyal
- Comrades for life till we're deep in soil
- They came to the middle east told us we need royals
- Just ask Mossadeq about BP Oil
- Look at history, the pecking order you will discover
- Nationalise your resources watch your children suffer
- Are you still my brother?
- Even if BAE Systems gives us weapons to kill each other
- I strike back at the empire till it falls
- Most of us invest our money in building walls
- Mark the words of the lyricist that's written this
- Any money that I do make will build a bridge
- This is a battle that many better men have died fighting
- But I hope to give an insight through my writing
- My pen fires at the men who defend liars
- I send fire till the end of your empire
Hook - Sanasino
- We will fight to live
- We will not give up
- We will not give in
- We will rise
- And through the blood and tears
- We will not give up
- We will not give in
- We will rise