Friends, foes and firewood are gathering in the tenements tonight
While the fast ones amongst them brings home food for those too slow
For many years they have lived on the streets
And their freedom just a memory as the darkness repeats
But somehow everything is turning upside down
Pre Chorus
And they've been sleeping in the subway
The only place they call their own
Eventually they rise, yes they rise and they
Chorus
Rise in their own way
Rise in their own way
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