Get up Life's gonna knock you down and laugh Watch you drown in the aftermath You can lay there, let the current pull you thin Or you can rise and let the storm begin Ain't nobody coming to carry your weight Get up off the floor before it's too late You were never meant to just lie still Every wave was built to break and spill So ask yourself before you fold Are you rising, or letting the water go cold? I'm not a puddle you walk through and forget I'm the tide that swallows every step you take I'll take the whole damn city down with me I'd rather drown the world than let it drown me They step over the ones too scared to rise Never notice till the water's at their eyes I used to shrink to keep the peace Now I'm the flood, and I don't retreat I'm not a puddle you walk through and forget I'm the tide that swallows every step you take I'll take the whole damn city down with me I'd rather drown the world than let it drown me I stopped asking to be seen Started being something you can't walk between On your feet, or rot in the mud Every second down here is wasted blood You wanna be remembered, or forgot? You wanna be the flood, or just the spot Where everybody walks and never thinks twice I built myself a wall, not a door I'm not a puddle, I'm the rising tide (rising tide) I'll take the whole damn city down with me You can walk through weakness all your life But you'll never walk through what I'm gonna be Ocean or puddle, that's the only choice Get up, get loud — be the storm, not the shore (Get up)
