Rise As One

Verse 1

Long night lay heavy on my shoulder blades

Streetlight hummed a lonely lonesome song

I watched the shadows take their slow escape

And told myself we could not hold on

Pre-Chorus

But a first bird stirs the quiet air

And something soft begins to climb

Every aching hour we carried there

Is giving way to morning light

Chorus

Sunrise on the road we walk

Step by step we rise as one

Every heart that learns to talk

Green is growing where we begun

Verse 2

Mama sang the old refrain so true

Told my bare feet meet the earth

What the darkness steals it cannot keep

Every dawn is a rebirth

Pre-Chorus

Hear the neighbor call across the lane

Hear the children wake and sing

We been kneeling for the rain

Now the open sky is opening

Chorus

Sunrise on the road we walk

Step by step we rise as one

Every heart that learns to talk

Green is growing where we begun

Breakdown

(Rub a dub up)

(Bass and the organ make a song for the day)

(One drop steady when the night is gone)

(Pick it up now we singin')

(Rub a dub up)

Chorus

Sunrise on the road we walk

Step by step we rise as one

Every heart that learns to talk

Green is growing where we begun

Hook

Lift it up like the morning dew

Lift it up till the hope comes through

Lift it up till the light is true

Sunrise we rising me and you

Sunrise we rising me and you