Friends, foes and firewood are gathering in the tenaments tonight   While the fast one amongst them brings home food for those too slow   For too many years they have lived on these streets   And their freedom just a memory as the darkness repeats   But somehow everything is turning upside down      BRIDGE   And they've been sleeping in the subway   The only place they call their own      CHORUS   And eventually they rise, yes they rise   And they rise in their own way (Repeat)      Their daughter ran away today   Didn't have a lot to say   They wondered why   She comes in twice a week to wash her clothes and watch her mother cry   There's too many eyes watching her fmaily home   Now the seeds of revolution inside her are sown   And somehow everything is turning upside down      BRIDGE, CHORUS      Her only daughter left her many years ago   And still she don't know why   She said "Don't you worry mother, you will never see me cry"      Yes they rise in their own way(Repeat)   And they rise in their own way(Repeat)   (Repeat)