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Everyone in the world has gone to bed
One night or another with fear

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Or pain or loss
Or disappointment

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And yet each of us has awakened, arisen
Somehow made our ablution

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Seen other human beings and said;
Morning! How are you?

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Fine thanks, and you?
It's amazing;

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Wherever there abides in the human being
There is the nobleness of the human spirit

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Despite it all
We rise

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You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies

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You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust

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I rise
Does my sassiness upset you?

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Why are you beset with gloom?
Just 'cause I walk as if I have oil wells

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Pumping in my living room
Just like suns and like moons

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With the certainty of tides
Just like hopes springing high

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Still I rise
Did you want to see me broken?

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Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops

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Weakened by my soulful cries
Does my sassiness upset you?

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Don't take it so hard just 'cause I laugh
As if I have gold mines

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Digging in my own back yard
You can shoot me with your words

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You can cut me with your lies
You can kill me with your hatefulness

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But just like life
I rise

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Does my sexiness offend you?
Aw, does it come as a surprise

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That I dance as if I had diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

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Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise

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Up from a past rooted in pain
I rise

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A black ocean, leaping and wide
Welling and swelling

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I bear in the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

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I rise
Into a daybreak miraculously clear

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I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave

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I am the hope and the dream of the slave
And so, naturally

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There I go rising