Watch Me Rise

"Goddamn" he said, "I promised myself I'd never feel this fucking way again
 This world has got me praying on my knees for one peaceful thought in my mind, my stride, my life
 My time is consumed with a thousand thoughts
 Flying free like a flock of birds with no direction or intention of finding home
 It's so hard to think
 It's so hard to live
 When this world doesn't see you any other way
 In this world, they choose to see me, they choose to see me like a setting sun
 So it's up to me, I have to see me like a rising one
 In my days somebody told me that the rain would always come, always come to wash away the pain
 But nothing changes and this world still wants me down
 Wants me on my knees praying in that rain
 Born this way, die this way"
 I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees
 I'd rather die on my feet so you can watch me
 Watch me rise with the things we carry: the loss, the scars, the weight of hevay hearts, the things we carry
 So I say to the slaves of depression: carry on and sing the sweet redeeming song about living this life free and long
 Watche me rise for Miles and miles