RAISE IT HIGH

Lyrics By: J.G. Argo ©2026 [Intro – whispered, layered, ceremonial → heartbeat emergence] Haaah… heyo… haaah… heyo… (soft, intimate) Quiet the mind… Listen… (pause) Can you hear it… (breath underneath) Your spirit is speaking. (low 808 heartbeat enters) Rhythm in your pulse now… Fire in your lungs… You were never empty— You were never alone… Wake it up… [Verse 1 – tribal minimal groove] Feel the beat It’s in your soul Let it rise Lose control There is no sin In your blood Freedom calls From within Setting you free Let it be [Chorus – tribal pop lift] Raise it high Feel the sky (ooh-yeah!) Dance tonight Don’t ask why Feel the peace Let it shine Lift your heart You are divine [Verse 2 – expanded percussion, flute textures] Deep inside The rhythm speaks Ancient fire Underneath Nature whispers Loud and clear Breathe it in No fear… no fear [Chorus – expanded] Raise it high Feel the sky (oh-oh!) Dance tonight Don’t be shy Feel the love Let it show Let your freedom Start to glow [Transition – collapse into silence → emotional inversion] (drums drop out, 808 becomes pulse, space opens) …But what happens… when the music stops? [Rap Verse – autobiographical collapse] Listen up… I was born hearing impaired Searching for meaning In a world that never cared Trying to make sense of hell and sin Asking questions no one dared to hear Silence growing louder in my ear Looking for answers that never appeared Walking through life while drowning in despair I was chasing every high just to feel okay Dancing in services just to numb the pain Thought I knew the truth, which is why I was dismayed Smiling in the light while I decayed Chased God in the rhythm, never to be found Silence hits different when there’s no one around All that light just left me underground When the night got heavy, I would start to drown Lost my license right before I hit thirty Found out I was legally blind—yeah, life got dirty Depression came later, moved in like it knew me Whispered in the dark like it always could see Liquor in my lungs, smoke in my chest Searching for a God I could never confess Read every page like it would bring me rest Still came up empty in the middle of the mess Tell me why freedom feels like stress When every answer just turns to less [Bridge – shared search with wife → revelation begins] (handpan returns softly, atmosphere opens) Then I met my wife… and I wasn’t alone in the questions We weren’t trying to believe harder… we were trying to find what was real So we looked deeper than fear… deeper than what we were told to accept Into history… context… what it was written for, and how it was kept Not to destroy meaning… but to understand what remained beneath it And what we found wasn’t terror… it wasn’t punishment or shame It was something unraveling quietly… like it had never belonged to pain No hell beneath us waiting… no sin written into breath No judgment sitting over life… no final sentence of death Just systems built from fear… passed down as inherited truth And in seeing it clearly… something loosened inside the room [Transformation Section – release / liberation] Like chains we didn’t know we carried… finally falling away Not through rebellion… but through clarity that stayed And the weight we thought was holy… lost its hold on our skin Like we could finally breathe without needing to earn what was within We weren’t escaping reality… we were stepping back into it whole No longer shaped by fear of endings… or stories we were told Just presence… just awareness… just life unfolding as it is No hell behind us… no judgment ahead of this [Final Chorus – liberated meaning] Raise it high Feel the sky (but grounded now) Dance tonight Still don’t ask why Feel the peace Right here inside Lift your heart— You are alive [Outro – stripped, grounded presence] Haaah… heyo… haaah… heyo… No rising away… No falling down… Just here… awake… and unbound…