[00:00.00]Rise above, rise above

[00:04.61]And you’ve got to

[00:05.97]Rise above, rise above

[00:11.59]She had a little daughter with her, it was cold out

[00:14.22]She said “ah, I hate this ************,” then she rolled out

[00:16.88]He ain’t answering his phone, she yells “what the ****?!”

[00:19.74]Then told her daughter “buckle up, yeah, that’s for safety”

[00:22.16]See she been stressin’ lately

[00:23.43]‘Cause this ***** she done been with for the past two years

[00:26.06]Is now the current reason for her last few tears

[00:29.40]She text, he don’t text back

[00:31.16]When she see him she be tryna ***, he don’t *** back

[00:34.17]His heart be on jet black

[00:35.46]She call, he don’t call back, all he say is “fall back”

[00:38.53]A ***** just need his space, so she headed to his place

[00:41.42]Cause she just got a call from her homegirl Rhonda

[00:44.31]Who said he been creepin’, he been ******’ with Yolanda

[00:47.30]“Yolanda? Yeah girl, Yolanda”

[00:49.58]“Told you he ain’t **** but you ain’t listen, I was tryna” –

[00:52.56]“Click” – hmmm, hung up that phone and hopped right up in that Honda

[00:56.25]Headed to his crib, she said she fed up with this ****

[00:59.12]“Thought this time this was the one, thought I got better at this ****”

[01:02.01]“Pickin’ out Mr. Right, stick it out through the fights”

[01:04.99]“And long nights, for what? These ****** is all alike”

[01:07.79]She gon’ set it off, her daughter gon’ witness it all tonight, damn

[01:11.41]Rise above, rise above

[01:15.88]And you’ve got to

[01:16.96]Rise above, rise above

[01:21.54]She said she just finished school, could barely pay tuition

[01:24.81]Now she teaches 7th grade, tryna make a difference

[01:27.80]Aye, but the kids frustrate her, say that they don’t listen

[01:30.52]A ass like that, how the **** they supposed to pay attention?

[01:33.48]I’m ******’ with you, but for real, she say they hopeless

[01:36.39]A class full of jokesters, creating all the obstacles, impossible to focus

[01:40.64]Little ****** barely read, tryna give them what they need

[01:43.63]And they don’t even try, one little boy, he caught her eye

[01:46.40]‘Cause he look just like her brother, she be havin’ to call his mother

[01:49.38]But she act like she don’t care – what father? He ain’t here

[01:52.41]Now she frustrated, thinkin’ that she just made the mistake of her life

[01:56.04]Underpaid, be havin’ to waitress at night

[01:58.20]Six years of college down the drain, drinkin’, tryna drown her pain

[02:01.57]Party with her girls, feeling sorry for the world

[02:04.20]‘Cause ain’t no hope for the youth, well ain’t that the truth

[02:07.16]When all your role models either rappin’ or they hoop, damn

[02:10.54]Rise above, rise above

[02:14.85]And you’ve got to

[02:16.33]Rise above, rise above

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