We're mistaken
If we think we can make it
We can fake it
But never take it to heart
Nothing stays in our way
We can't make it anyway
Wir leben jetzt
Wir leben jetzt
We're mistaken
If we think we can make it
We can fake it
But never take it to heart
Nothing stays in our way
We can't make it anyway
We're living now
We're living now
Vi lever nu
Vi lever nu
Wir leben jetzt
Wir leben jetzt
[Interlude]
[Outro]
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
Just ’cause I walk as if I have oil wells
Pumping in my living room
Just like moons and like suns
With the certainty of tides
Just like hopes springing high
Still I’ll rise
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my sassiness upset you?
Ha-ha-ha, don’t take it so hard
Just ’cause I laugh as if I have gold mines
Digging in my own backyard
You can shoot me with your words
You can cut me with your lies
You can kill me with your hatefulness
But just like life, I’ll rise
Does my sexiness offend you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance as if I have diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain, I rise
A black ocean, leaping and wide
Welling and swelling and bearing in the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise
Into a daybreak miraculously clear, I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave
I am the hope and the dream of the slave
And so...
There I go