PBS NewsHour, Jan 20, 2021
Grammy nominee Andra Day performed "Rise Up" while
looking over the Black Lives Matter mural in Hollywood, while across the
country 10-year-old skater Kaitlyn Saunders performed her routine on Washington
D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza. Their virtual performance was one of many
during Wednesday's "Parade Across America," which celebrated the
inauguration of President Joe Biden.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a 2021YouTube video of Andra Day singing "Rise Up" in 2021 during the virtual inauguration for United States President Joe Biden.
The lyrics to that song are included in this post along with a note about this song from the writers on genius.com.
Thanks to Andra Day & Jennifer Decilveo, for composing this song. Thanks to Andra Day for her musical legacy and thanks to the transcriber of this song on genius.com. Thanks also to skater Kaitlyn Saunders who is also featured in this showcased video and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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LYRICS- RISE UP
(Composed by Andra Day & Jennifer Decilveo, 2015)
[Verse 1]
You're broken down and tired
Of living life on a merry-go-round
And you can't find the fighter
But I see it in you, so we gon' walk it out
And move mountains
We gon' walk it out
And move mountains
[Chorus]
And I'll rise up, I'll rise like the day
I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid
I'll rise up
And I'll do it a thousand times again
And I'll rise up, high like the waves
I'll rise up in spite of the ache
I'll rise up
And I'll do it a thousand times again
[Post-Chorus]
For you
For you
For you
For you
[Verse 2]
When the silence isn't quiet
And it feels like it's getting hard to breathe
And I know you feel like dying
But I promise we'll take the world to its feet
And move mountains
Bring it to its feet
And move mountains
[Chorus]
And I'll rise up, I'll rise like the day
I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid
I'll rise up
And I'll do it a thousand times again
[Post-Chorus]
For you
For you
For you
For you
[Bridge]
All we need, all we need is hope
And for that, we have each other
And for that, we have each other, and (We will rise)
We will rise, we will rise (We will rise)
We'll rise, oh-oh-ooh-oh (We will rise)
We'll rise
[Chorus]
I'll rise up, rise like the day
I'll rise up in spite of the ache
I will rise a thousands times again
And we'll rise up, high like the waves
We'll rise up in spite of the ache
We'll rise up (Rise up)
And we'll do it a thousands times again
[Post-Chorus]
For you
For you
For you
For you
For you
Here's a note about this song from https://genius.com/Andra-day-rise-up-lyrics
Andra Day’s ‘Rise Up’ wasn’t intended to be an anthem. The
San Diego soul singer says she originally wrote the song, from her debut album
Cheers to the Fall, as a prayer for herself during a difficult time. But the
rousing song resonated widely with activist communities after its 2015 release
— the Black Lives Matter movement in particular. Day performed the song at the
2016 Democratic National Convention just after the mothers of Sandra Bland,
Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis addressed the crowd; by then, ‘Rise Up’ had
become an anthem not just for personal perseverance, but for the wider struggle
for social justice in our era."
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