Roshni - Flobots

Together we rise like fire and smoke

Together we conspire so we never lose hope

Together reach higher than you ever could know

Meet destiny

Together we

Together we rise like fire and smoke

Together we conspire so we never lose hope

Together reach higher than you ever could know

Together we

Together we

Together we

Together we

Rise together, we rise together, we rise together, we raise up

Whatever the days have brought

In every phase we’re settin' the stage up

With memories of better ways of breaking bread with neighbors

And when I share with you it’s an honor, not a favor

Everybody is a stranger in a strange land

'Til we make plans to be otherwise

Raise hands up to the skies

Like water vapors that arise

From the cold street like butterflies

Or breakdancers doing boomerangs

Coming back home to one great family of human beings

Look into each other’s eyes

See a whole world of a size only the most high could know

Dreams of a dozen lifetimes

Flood bloodlines flowing right below

The patchwork tapestry that we call skin

Recall relatives like lightning bolts

Thunder rolls down an ocean from an icicle

So whenever my eyes are closed

I’m praying we can keep love alive

Clutch tight to the rainbows

To the sunsets and the northern lights

To the flesh tones spanning every shade

Of luscious bright dust that provides us sustenance

Please don’t ever let me be color blind

Sing a lullaby

Together we

Together we

Together we rise like fire and smoke

Together we conspire so we never lose hope

Together reach higher than you ever could know

Meet destiny

Together we

Together we

It’s the limit of culture, repulsive

Circling vultures put profits over our hearts

And the opposite of what we should want

But we’ve got is a pit in the middle of democracy

Hostilely an avocado seed

We could pot and start watering

Stop tossing rocks at the other team

There’s a profit in othering

Punishing gossip among other things

Impossible policy, policing all of the smothered dreams

An abundance of tongue and cheek

Leaves some of us wondering

How we love for the government

Not what suffers in front of me

Rigor mortis and some chorus chords

Rising tide, lower shores

Democratize how we all rise like neither side is keeping score

With rock-solid accomplishments

Our byproduct is monuments

And those who climb as conquerors

We rise up as the opposition

Together we rise like fire and smoke

Together we conspire so we never lose hope

Together reach higher than you ever could know

Meet destiny

Together we

Together we rise

Together we

Together we

Together we

Together we