Roots Manuva
Rise Up (You Fighters)
[Refrain: Crisis]
Wake up and see you fighters
Before you see them vipers
Hear my calling all the way
Because if they come and they dislike us
Being our brothers keepers
We'll be fighting through this day
[Part: Roots Manuva]
Revolution in stereo that's how we dapping now
We educate and elevate no time for slacking now
Rise up wise up cos the far right them a size up
Looking for scapegoats to work their hatred
Full time we're lining up & squash those racists
And wе don't need to stoop to their cowardly level
Terrorise them with treble and we buck them with base
Monster flame behold see fire bun them
Run them and we don't need gun fi gun them
Unification
Fly the flag antagonise uncivilised risings
But still abide by universal law
Worldwide we synchronise beating our chest
From Parliament to Congress it's progress
Inject the love to the heart of the metropolis
Revolutionary mind state ain't no stopping this
[Part: Creamo]
Hey yo - there's no justice there's just us
We don't watch big brother - big brother watch us!
And through the media got ya believing
The negative stereo type they feeding ya
Then sending their troops out to stop search & harass us
Sometimes we even end up brutalised
Please no excuse & lies we losing lives
In police custody like moving tribes
They're armed now trigger happy and shooting guys
Racism it's not on the streets it's institutionalised
[Refrain: Crisis]
Wake up and see you fighters
Before you see them vipers
Hear my calling all the way
Because if they come and they dislike us
Being our brothers keepers
We'll be fighting through this day
[Part: Knight Templa]
The whole planet is a political prison
How hypocritical is living?
Racism issues getting deep critical listen
Racism is just another form of religion
That keeps the people splitting in the division beware of the prison
Opposition is spreading us in this hell we live in
Putting the people verse the system but we're letting them win
It ain't a black thing
It ain't d white thing
It's just a life thing!
The fact that they can't see that is kind of frightening
Unless we come together days will only get darker
Cos of racism my son he only got one grandfaher
And these laws and orders they only helping us to slaughter
If they cared they would have jailed the four that bored up Stephen Lawrence
Man their whole minds manipulated into it
They born with innocence but over years turn into this
Whycan't we all be mature and settle differences
I came to let you know that ignorance it isn't bliss
[Part: Est'elle]
Yo, I said man's is getting stamped on kids with no fathers
Wives crying at night mothers left with daughters
We know it's far right but it's far from right
They keep murdering the man like it's the thing to keep tight
Now they calling what Mugabe does is genocide
When your own people make my people drop dead like flies
It's always a mistake & some mothers' heart is breaking
Whilst you put your fist in the air murder like you making
Dedicated to families of them people who was killed
And the human race who I know should feel it still
When you wake up & free your own mind
Raised on me nothing we bleed it's the same kind
[Part: Seanie-T]
Take your education bredda keep it like a gun
In a world of mind madness meets manipulation
The basis of a racist place is ain't wid their tongue
Whilst putting fear wid the peo- ple in a situation
Seanie don't talk advocate violence but it don't make sense
Through mi colour you want beat down my fence
Them bwoy not worth 2 pence got no intelligence
Dog shit must be their brain contents
[Refrain: Crisis]
Wake up and see you fighters
Before you see them vipers
Hear my calling all the way
Because if they come and they dislike us
Being our brothers keepers
We'll be fighting through this day
[Part: Black Twang]
You know what though
What we need in our community is unity
Proper opportunities combating Babylon's scrutiny
Instead of screwing me go screw the system
Diss them & fist them piss in their faces like it's a cistern
Since when has it become too much to share facts?
Look out for one ano- ther like mere cats
Instead of juking out each other bringing tears to eyes like tear gas
Whilst pigs target practice on kids with bear gats
Of course overstand say lives get cut short
Breddas kill breddas over medals like blood sports
I keep a whole heap of love for my bruvs
One love, one people, one life, one fight, one blood!
[Part: Karl Hinds]
Yo, you know I commentate on social pressure daily
Relate to me clearly, pictures are painted it's hard to live sacred
Trust is complex
Brutality my child's reality is forthcoming
Police will punch a child up over nothing
Twisted patrio-tic burn crosses
Consequence bear losses to the nation of black
On top of that the subliminal stress designed to limit progress of ghetto youth contributes
The navigator speaks the truth
[Refrain: Crisis]
Wake up and see you fighters
Before you see them vipers
Hear my calling all the way
Because if they come and they dislike us
Being our brothers keepers
We'll be fighting through this day
[Part: MCD]
It's the pollution with what minds get filled
When brain cells are killed never chill coffins are filled
The construction that's many build to get figures
They never with us they celebrate with swastikas
They claim they're saving lives depicting their way of live as right
Putting hate in the hearts of people with blond hair and blue eyes
They claim they have the best plan
What they think is without their separation all whites will be extinct kid
The mind of the babies the heart not the colour of the face
In fact they make whites wanna change their race
To find peace in your soul love yourself that's the nourishment the world need
Cos that's the spiritual wealth
[Part: Pluto]
Racist feds want us dead arrest us
By morning we're victims laid out on stretchers
Cause of death unknown
They've got us in a zone (for real)
In order to eat got to kill your own (that's not right)
Brainwash. It's time to let the truth manifest
Stand up truly blessed (get up)
Be ready to die for each other (die)
Divided they conquer – together we're stronger
Regal people overrule evil
X & King were leaders of their people (right)
We've never seen their equal (nah) – rise people (rise)
Mentally adapt. Set examples for the little ones
Am I my Bro- thers Keeper?
Or just a n***a in love with reefer?
[Part: Paradise]
How many times we've got to reflect on our lives?
That reflection is the detection of the pain in our eyes
When we've got to recite that kid was aiight
In a suit pinstriped to his wake one candle we light casually in his memory
He reflect us de- ath reflects all of we plural
Graffiti tag walls the mural
R.I.P. ergo family quarrels over a fear with the inner sorrows
Cos their kid didn't live to see another tomorrow
So today we're forced to pray that we too won't have to see the cemetery
In such a similar way
[Refrain: Crisis]
Wake up and see you fighters
Before you see them vipers
Hear my calling all the way
Because if they come and they dislike us
Being our brothers keepers
We'll be fighting through this day