[Intro]
Takes black and white to make brown
New world now
Welcome to the ground
Where we hold that crown (yeah)
[Verse 1]
Takes black and white to make brown
Mix pain with the pride, we around
Turn chains into links, we connect
Turn shame into flame, that’s respect
They divide us in columns and rows
But we cousins in blood, in the soul
Every shade, every face, every town
Same dirt, same hurt, same ground
We stand with our fathers, that line
All the prayers that they prayed through the time
Every tear that they hid in their hands
Now it echo when we march on the land
I’m my grandma’s faith in the flesh
My granddaddy’s sweat on my chest
I’m the “never again” in a breath
I’m the answer they wrote in the test (yeah)
[Chorus]
One people, one nation, under God
We the ones they could never tear apart
From the dirt, from the hurt, from the scar
We still rise, we still ride, we go hard
One people, one nation, under God
Whole world in the palm of His heart
Got a promise in the middle of the war
We don’t break, we don’t bend, we want more (one people)
[Verse 2]
Welcome to a new world, wake up
Ain’t a color in this room that’s a stranger
If you bleed like me, you my kin
If you breathe like me, you my win
They been sellin’ us fear, we refund it
All that hate that they push, we reroute it
Turn a slur to a slogan, we shout it
Turn a cross to a banner, we ’bout it
We don’t bow to the throne of a man
We don’t fold for a flag in a hand
We salute to the truth and the Lamb
To the Word, to the rock, to “I AM”
We descendants of pain and of glory
Same Author keep writin’ our story
From the field to the block to the crowd
Hear the promise in the thunder so loud (woo)
[Chorus]
One people, one nation, under God
We the ones they could never tear apart
From the dirt, from the hurt, from the scar
We still rise, we still ride, we go hard
One people, one nation, under God
Whole world in the palm of His heart
Got a promise in the middle of the war
We don’t break, we don’t bend, we want more (one people)
[Bridge]
Hands up if you know you were chosen (hands up)
Every chain that you had, now it’s broken (so gone)
Every tribe, every tongue, that’s the chorus
Every line from the past still before us
We the answer they said wouldn’t come
We the children still beatin’ that drum
We the color that they tried to shut down
Takes black and white to make brown (yeah)
[Chorus]
One people, one nation, under God
We the ones they could never tear apart
From the dirt, from the hurt, from the scar
We still rise, we still ride, we go hard
One people, one nation, under God
Whole world in the palm of His heart
Got a promise in the middle of the war
We don’t break, we don’t bend, we want more (one people, one nation)