Intro (Xantoné Blacq)
(Multiple simultaneous adlibs)

Chorus x2 (Xantoné Blacq)
Hey, hey, everybody, you know we got to keep on rising,
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising),
I said climb up (climb up), step up (step up),
keep on going (keep on going),
keep on going (keep on going),
everybody, you know we got to keep on rising,
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising),
I said climb up (climb up), step up (step up),
keep on going (keep on going),
keep on growing (keep on going) oh!

Verse One (Funky DL)
What’s going on people? Let’s take it back to the Genesis,
November 20th, when I was on the precipice,
I’m born 24 hours later, exposed to elements,
I’m cold and hungry and tired, you can call me a pessimist,
let’s run a couple health checks and then review the evidence,
now you can take your bundle of joy, get off the premises,
I’m growing up in troubling times ranging from terrorists
to Politicians ruining lives, but talk benevolence,
I guess it’s just a clash of Titans without the Pegasus,
by age five I gotta’ go school so I can benefit
from what they say will provide you with academic excellence,
boost my intelligence with lessons of irrelevance,
taught me how to read and write and form a couple sentences,
taught me to communicate and where to place the emphasis,
made a couple friends, a couple kids were like my nemesis,
boys gotta’ be boys, so there was lots of recklessness,
fist fights, fending off bullies, my blows were generous,
I disliked sharing my goodies and that’s my prejudice,
I’d tell you everything on my mind like you my therapist,
and anything significant, my brain would say remember this,
so as the years go, it ain’t too hard to reminisce
and I was born the year of the snake, so call me venomous,
that’s what I need to get by from all the cleverness,
the sly want a piece of the pie from all our special gifts.

Chorus (Xantoné Blacq)
Hey everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, ooh,
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising),
I said climb up (climb up), rise up (rise up),
keep on going (keep on going),
keep on going (keep on going),
hey everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, yeah,
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising),
I said climb up (climb up), step up (step up),
keep on going (keep on going),
keep on going (keep on going).

Verse Two (Funky DL)
So from now on people, let’s take it forward like we front facing,
legacies and fundraising, not just blunt chasing,
hard training, not complaining, while you sunbathing,
most of the population can’t even rely on savings,
they say the route of suffering is craving,
consumerism is enslaving the minds, there’s no escaping,
everybody wanna’ enter entertainment for paper chasing,
rather be famous and be aimless over being nameless,
meanwhile the powers that be maintain surveillance,
from your profile status to your interfering fucking neighbors,
cos’ if your prosperous, somebody wanna turn the tables,
and even those that’s close to you commit betrayal,
I’m just saying to be careful, simultaneous to be courageous,
do me a favour, this is more than just some words on paper,
we gotta move like it’s second nature,
to be a generation moving from minor until we touch major,
huh, and write the rules like we legislators,
cos’ life is like playing a game of chess with the Creator,
where the Devil only stands on your side of the table,
making suggestions on your next move like he a player in your life,
that’s how the tables get turned,
cos’ you can be on top of everything then crash and then burn,
like when you meet someone you like, at first you thinking just wow,
but get to know em’, now they calling and you thinking what now?
Chorus (Xantoné Blacq)
Oh everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, huh,
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising),
I said stand up (stand up), rise up (rise up),
keep on going (keep on going),
keep on going (keep on going),
everybody, you know we got to keep on rising, yeah,
(keep on rising, keep on rising, keep on rising),
stand up (stand up), hold on (hold on),
keep on going (keep on going),
keep on going, keep on going (keep on going).

Outro (Xantoné Blacq)
(With multiple simultaneous adlibs)
Hey, we’ve gotta’, we gotta’ find a way, we gotta’,
oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh…,
everybody, everybody, everybody, body, body,
come one, stand up,
(together you and I…find a way),
keep strong.