[Intro]
They told us we were nothing.
They drew the lines, stole the ground beneath our feet,
gave us gods to keep us still.
But the land remembers.
And we… we remember.
[Verse 1]
Grew up watching Mama cry — the check never came
Civil servant sweat, $75, they keep her in chains
While the man in the big house print his name on the law
Signing off our minerals to the ones that came before
Pastor said pray, God gon' send it small-small
But the offering plate pass and the wall never fall
I watched my brother beg for justice in the court
The judge wink at his cousin — that's the only support
They said tribalism is tradition, we must keep it alive
Set the Kpelle 'gainst the Bassa just to help them survive
Divide and conquer dressed in African cloth
We been burning down our village for a foreigner's profit
[Chorus]
We are the legends — blood of the free!
Born from the soil, the rivers, the sea!
No tribe can divide what the ancestors tied —
We rise, we rise, we rise!
We are the legends — the future is ours!
Built from the Niobium, diamonds, and scars!
No syndicate, no silence, no borrowed tomorrow —
We rise, we rise, we rise!
[Verse 2]
We watched them fly to London for a knee operation
Meanwhile the hospital beds them dry — no medication
And we kept quiet — yah, that silence was complicity
We smiled at the photo from abroad with humility
Teacher told the girl: you want your grade? You know the price
We looked away, we whispered low, we said it ain't our fight
But every time we close our eyes to what we know is wrong
We hand the keys of Liberia to the ones who don't belong
Resource wealth beneath our feet — Tantalum, Monazite
They sign it off at midnight while we sleep and lose the light
Rubber bled the land before, now Niobium bleeds again
When do we decide the price of silence is too much pain?
[Chorus]
We are the legends — blood of the free!
Born from the soil, the rivers, the sea!
No tribe can divide what the ancestors tied —
We rise, we rise, we rise!
We are the legends — the future is ours!
Built from the Niobium, diamonds, and scars!
No syndicate, no silence, no borrowed tomorrow —
We rise, we rise, we rise!
[Bridge]
One finger can't liftup load — we know this
But we been fighting each other instead of the fist
Slow by slow catch monkey — our elders said it true
The code of honor ain't foreign — it lives inside of you
Do you remember who you are? — We remember!
Before they named us by our tribe? — We remember!
Before they told us God won't move — We remember!
unless you give your last alive? — We remember!
Nana said: the ancestors watching, yah
They watching how we carry it
Not how loud we pray in empty halls
But how we build — brick by brick by brick
[Final Chorus]
We are the legends — blood of the free!
Born from the soil, the rivers, the sea!
No tribe can divide what the ancestors tied —
We rise, we rise, we rise!
We are the legends — the future is ours!
Built from the Niobium, diamonds, and scars!
No syndicate, no silence, no borrowed tomorrow —
We rise — Liberia rises!
Africa rises!
We rise!
