It’s the return of the fire, the fuel of the flame
Is the youth in the chains of empires we salute to polluting the game
I’m inspired to shoot truth in your veins
To think higher, not giving people power prostituting for gain
Taking advantage of us
So let’s stand as a band of brothers
Against the fools that remain who already took this land from others
Who've been killing our education
And ill advising a generation of leaders that stand among us
And still I rise as a beacon painting a picture
Of my city looking gritty committees not laying hands to fix her
Cause with my eyes I’ve been seeing they vision outta focus
Hopeless of our history they’ll write in scripture
Cause it’s getting scary out, riding thru the city in my chariot
Passing the underpasses people using as a restaurant
Trading tenants and tents for dollars and domes
Gentrifying the homes and those residing inside it, kicked outta they zones
They already shaking outta they bones when it gets cloudy and cold
Now without a roof to stay outta the snow
While we lay up in our domiciles
Yet still living in prisons surrounded by uncanny amounts of violence out
Bombs and bullets, the news talking bout bombs and bullets
Every other day, where the plug at, it’s time to pull it
It’s dependent on us, and we louder when it’s strength in numbers
Gotta change the city and the time is now
The time is now
The time is now
The time is now
The time is now