Four Decades

Drop

Rise up rise up

Forty years I waited for this

Verse 1

I counted every season on my hands

Blisters on my knuckles from the fight

They told me I was nothing

I believed it for a while

Then the embers started humming in my chest

Pre-Chorus

So I dug through the damage

Dug through the doubt

Pulled my name out of the wreckage

Chorus

I am the Phoenix I am rising

I am the Phoenix watch me climb

For the voiceless for the quiet

For the ones who lost their say

I am the Phoenix I am rising

And forever I will stay

Drop

Rise up rise up

Stand with me in truth

Rise up rise up

Forever we are proof

Verse 2

Four decades of the ache

Four decades of the silence

Four decades of not knowing what I'm worth

Now I see the light that lives inside

Now I know exactly what I'm for

Pre-Chorus

So I stand for the people

Stand for the truth

Stand against the ones who held us down

Chorus

I am the Phoenix I am rising

I am the Phoenix watch me climb

For the voiceless for the quiet

For the ones who lost their say

I am the Phoenix I am rising

And forever I will stay

Drop

Rise up rise up

Stand with me in truth

Rise up rise up

Forever we are proof

Bridge

Together we are strong

Together we are loud

Together we are never going back

Chorus

I am the Phoenix I am rising

I am the Phoenix watch me climb

For the voiceless for the quiet

For the ones who lost their say

I am the Phoenix I am rising

And forever I will stay

Drop

Rise up rise up

Forever I will be known

Rise up rise up

Forever I will be known