Ilyas Mao, Boonaa Mohammed, Muslim Belal - Rise Up lyrics

I’m walking back on my old life
Give thanks to the Most High
Cuz I could’ve been anything
Dead or in jail or addicted to heroin
Cuz this world is a scary place
Where they teach us how to hate
The people that we don’t know
But they don’t know that we
All come from one soul
Ok, I’m not what they show
A terrorist nor am I a criminal
You can blame a scapegoat but I
Pray for peace and not war

Rise up, I’m gonna make
A difference, rise up, take back what’s mine
Rise up, give power to the people
Some dreams never die
Can I get a witness? You know that it’s right
Cuz we gotta rise up
And teach the world to unite

Yo, you see this life’s enough
To get you down take a look around, step out
Smile on your face, return home with a frown
This world’s full of imperfections
Hatred and corruption
Everybody’s suffering from anxiety
Now everybody’s got depression
That this life get the better of them
And it’s all meant to be lessons
All your high expectations sets
You up for disappointment
Quick to look outside the box
And complain about those problems
But we still ain’t took a minute to
Solve the problems that’s within them
We hate on each other more than
The people hate on us
We need rehabilitation
We need more than this to rise up
Sending a broadcast to our women
Telling them they need to be careful
While your brother’s in his house beating
His wife up till she’s tearful
Then we stand in the mosque, close together
Waiting for the prayer to start
Looking like a united team but
Our hearts are far apart
See before we complain about the world we
Need to fix the problems within
We can’t even see past the
Colour of each other’s skin
It’s mad I joined this religion for a change
I read about kindness
Humility and saw paradise within range
Tell me what happened to that
How can we let the focus be swerved
We need to get back on track
Show this religion to the world and rise up

Rise up, I’m gonna make
A difference, rise up, take back what’s mine
Rise up, give power to the people
Some dreams never die
Can I get a witness? You know that it’s right
Cuz we gotta rise up
And teach the world to unite

This is for the haters and the
Dictators and the debaters cuz the
Love’s greater than the bomb, keep calm
Got the world in my palm
Fans from Somalia to Vietnam
Cuz it’s blood that flows through my veins
It’s the same so I can’t look the other way
So put down the guns
Cuz to save one life is to save everyone
Everyone, every son, every mum
Feeling your pain cuz this ummah is one
They’re taking our lives but they’re wrong
Cuz to the Lord of the Worlds we belong
So we gotta wake up and sound the alarm
All my people, get up, before we are gone
Cuz we ain’t gotta fight, if we just unite
And tell the world to rise up

Rise up, I’m gonna make
A difference, rise up, take back what’s mine
Rise up, give power to the people
Some dreams never die
Can I get a witness? You know that it’s right
Cuz we gotta rise up
And teach the world to unite

The time is now
History is written by those who take a stance
We can no longer be quiet
We will no longer be silent
Those who seek to oppress us
Will be faced with resistance
I will not be a victim
I will not be a statistic
The system is sick, and we are it's cure
Doesn’t matter your religion, your race
Your gender we will rise up together
We will be remembered

Rise up, I’m gonna make
A difference, rise up, take back what’s mine
Rise up, give power to the people
Some dreams never die
Can I get a witness? You know that it’s right
Cuz we gotta rise up
And teach the world to unite