[Verse 1]
[low vocal register
Male lead]
Woke up with the weight
All these quiet doubts
Coffee getting cold
News turned down
[female lead enters]
Same old traffic jam
Inside my head
But something in the air
Says
“Move instead”
[Pre-Chorus]
[soft choir “ooh” pad]
[male lead]
If my heart is still beating
There’s a reason
There’s a sign
[female lead]
If we’re breathing the same sky
We can learn to rise this time
[Chorus]
[full choir enters
Clapping on 2 and 4]
[choir + both leads
Call-and-response]
We rise like this
(one step, one breath)
We rise like this
(from fear to yes)
When the ground feels gone
We stand
We insist
Hand in hand
Heart to fist
We rise like this
(oh, we rise, we rise)
[Verse 2]
[male lead]
You’ve been hiding scars
Under long sleeves
Saying
“I’m okay”
But you don’t sleep
[female lead]
I’ve been second-guessing
Every word I say
But your shaking voice
Still lights my way
[Pre-Chorus]
[choir humming underneath]
[male lead]
If we fall
We fall together
We’re not broken
Just in fight
[female lead]
Every crack lets in a lantern
Every tear reflects the light
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[drums drop out
Voices and piano only]
[female lead
Almost whispered]
Name your fear out loud
Let it leave your mouth
[male lead]
Let the shame fall down
To the floor
To the ground
[choir in unison
Then harmony]
We are more than all our failures
More than every missing piece
Every voice here builds a mountain
Every “no” turns into “please”
[crescendo
Drums swell back in]
[Both leads together
Belting]
So we rise
We rise
We rise
We rise
[Chorus]
[Chorus]