Rise Against the Chains

2024, the number, it’s another season (stand tall)

Beat of the rebel’s drumming

Truth cuttin’ through the noise ‘cause I know you feel reason

(Brothers and sisters, hey!)

Listen if you hear this call

Moving as I’m speaking

Giving what we’re seeking

Knowing what I know

While the heat keeps rising

And the voices keep flowing

We gotta claim what we need

Gotta fight till we’re freed

Our freedom of thought is a life or death

We gotta rise against the chains, say it with your breath—

Rise against the chains!

Fight the power, fight the power

Rise against the chains, fight the power

This rhythm was crafted to strike

What matters is more than hype

These rhymes built to stir your mind

Pride alive, and the spark’s divine

We pump the sound to harden the ground

Born from the heart, it’s a work of art

Revolution time it ain’t too strange

We’re all people but we need change

Not the same rules, not the same game

What we need is awareness, sharpened and fearless

You asking “what is this?”

It’s survival business

Mental armor, training fitness

(Yo) storm the floor,

Go for knowledge, reach for more

Make the whole world see—

It’s how we rise against the chains that be

Rise against the chains!

Fight the power, fight the power

Rise against the chains, fight the power

They raised false idols, called them heroes to most

But they never stood with us, not a prayer, not close

While our voices were silenced, erased from the page

We bring the truth back center stage

Power in the mic, I’m ready and lit

All my real heroes never made the print

Look back centuries, see who they praise

Red lines, red faces, red-washed days

Enough illusions, no time for delusions

Not “don’t worry, be happy”

But rise up, stay scrappy

(Get it!) let’s light this night on fire

Turn the doubt to desire

Power to the people—now, no delay

We stand, we shout, we fight today—

Fight the power, fight the power

Rise against the chains, fight the power

Fight the power!

Rise against the chains!

Fight the power!

Rise against the chains!

Power to the people, no delay—

We rise, we roar, we fight today!