(Chorus)
Rise above, rise above
You got to

Rise above, rise above

(Verse)

She had her little daughter with er, it was cold out
She said ?a'ight I hate this mother$#&@er then she rode out?
He ain't answering his phone, she yells ?what the $#&@??

Then told her daughter ?buckle up?, yea that's for safety
See she been stressin lately cuz this ^!$$% she done been with for the past 2 years
Is now the current reason for her last few tears

She text, he don't text back
When she see him she be tryina sex, he don't sex back
It's hard to be on jet black

She call, he don't call back
All he say is fall back
^!$$% just need his space, so she headed to his place

Cuz she just got a call from her home girl windin
Who say he be creepin, he been $#&@in with Yolanda
Yolanda? Yea girl, Yolanda

Told you he ain't %#@! but you ain't listen, I was tryna (click)
Hmm, hung up that phone and hop right up in that Honda
Headed to his crib, she said she fed up with this %#@!

Thought this time this was the one
Thought I got better at this %#@!
Picking out Mr. Right, sticking out through the fights

And long nights for what? This ^!$$%s is all a lie
She gon set it off, her daughter gon witness it all tonight, damn


(Chorus)
Rise above, rise above
You got to

Rise above, rise above

(Verse)

She said she just finish school, could barely pay tuition
Now she teachin 7 grade, tryna make a difference
Aye but the kids frustrated, said if they don't listen

A $$# like that, how the $#&@ they s'pposed to pay attention?
I'm $#&@in wit you but for real she said they hopeless, a class full of jokesters
Creatin all the obstacles, impossible to focus

Little ^!$$%s barely read, tryna give em what they need
And they don't even try, one little boy, he caught her eye
Cuz he looked just like her brother, she be havin to call his mother

But she act like she don't care,
Where father? He ain't here
Now she frustrated, thinkin that she just made the mistake of her life

Underpaid, be havin to waitress at night
Six years of college down the drain
Drinking, tryna drown the pain

Party with her girls, feelin sorry for the world
Cuz ain't no hope for the youth
Well, ain't that the truth?

When all your role models either rappin or they hoop, damn

(Chorus)

Rise above, rise above
You got to
Rise above, rise above


(Outro)
We got to?

Rise?