My generation is sick with identity crisis. We live broken and beaten down with the identities that the world has branded us. We're ashamed, reluctant, and we feel irrelevant. The cure is understanding who we really are. It's rising above the noise and coming to terms with exactly what we were made for, how much we're loved, and what we're entitled to as children of God - if we could understand this we would be so much more powerful as individuals and as a body. Revolution is a song about that empowerment. Taking a stand even when it goes directly against the grain...Being an agent of change even when it hurt...standing up for the poor and the abused even when it affects our own comfortable lifestyles. I love singing this song live...it has an intimate aggression that puts a lump in my throat.
If I'm here all alone
If I'm left behind
If they spit in my face
If they hate my kind
I will rise above
I will live for love
I will answer to the call
For the bond between
For the depth unseen
For my God forsake it all
'Cause I'm a fire
I'm a flood
I'm a revolution
I am a war
Already won
I'm a revolution
When the world is at war
When the grace is gone
When the hungry lay dead
While the rich live on
I will rise above
I will live for love
I will answer to the call
For the bond between
For a depth unseen
For my God forsake it all
(Here I stand)
Open hands
Waiting for You
I won't back down
I'll live to speak Your truth
