Rising

[Intro] (low choir hum building under a lone piano, then her voice cuts through) Can you feel it… something's moving… we're rising…[Hook] Look around, every broken thing is standing up, every buried, every beaten, every one who'd had enough All the ones they counted out are lifting off the ground — we're rising, we're rising Every scar in this whole room is catching fire in the light, every name they called a loss is getting louder tonight — we're rising, oh, we're rising[Post-Hook] (choir answers big) (Rising!) up from the ashes (Rising!) up from the grave (Rising!) everything they buried Is coming up saved[Verse 1] This ain't just my story, this is everyone who fell, everyone who clawed their way back up and out of hell Everyone who got back up the morning after the worst, everyone still standing with the cracks but not the curse You thought you buried us for good, thought the dark would hold us down, but you can't keep what's rising and you can't bury this sound — so lift your head up, lift your hands up, lift the weight up off the floor, 'cause the ones you said were finished aren't finished anymore[Pre-Hook] (building, drums tightening) Feel it in the floor now, feel it in the chest, every dead thing waking up and shaking off the rest — here it comes, here it comes… we're rising[Hook] Look around, every broken thing is standing up, every buried, every beaten, every one who'd had enough All the ones they counted out are lifting off the ground — we're rising, we're rising Every scar in this whole room is catching fire in the light, every name they called a loss is getting louder tonight — we're rising, oh, we're rising[Verse 2] I was down there in the bottom with the rest of the unseen, in the wreckage and the ashes and the in-between But a thing started happening that the dark could not contain, a getting-up, a coming-back, a rising through the pain And it wasn't just me lifting — no, I looked and saw the crowd, every fallen, every forgotten, every face that wasn't proud all standing in the same light, all climbing out the same grave, all the broken made unbreakable, all the lost ones made brave[Pre-Hook] Feel it in the floor now, feel it in the chest, every dead thing waking up and shaking off the rest — here it comes, here it comes… we're rising[Bridge] (half-time, MASSIVE choir, then a build back up) We rise (we rise) We don't stay down (we don't stay down) Everything they put in the dirt is coming up now We rise (we rise), we can't be held — everything that should've ended has a story left to tell (rising… rising… rising…) (drums drop back in — full tempo, explosive)[Verse 3] (highest energy — full belt, choir under every line) So if you're still down in it, if you're still beneath the weight, if you're certain that your story's at the ending of the page — look around you at the ones who were as buried as you are, now standing in the morning with the dark behind the scars You are not the only one and you are not too far gone, there's a whole choir of the risen and they're singing you along — so get up, get up, get up, let the dead thing come alive: we were buried, we were finished, and look — we're still rising[Final Hook] (everything — full choir, organ, the whole cast) Look around, every broken thing is standing tall, every buried, every beaten, rising up above it all They said we'd never make it but we're miles off the ground — we're rising, we're rising Every scar in this whole room is a banner in the light, every name they called a loss is a victory tonight — we're rising, oh, we're rising[Outro] (choir holds huge, then strips to her voice alone, then silence) We're rising… all of us… every broken thing… we're rising (beat) …we made it