Worn sneakers on the subway grate
Cold coffee in a chipped paper cup
Graffiti wall where I scrawled my fate
A spark I didn’t know I had
Rise up boots on the pavement
Fire in the veins no more complaint
Rise up turn the page tonight
We’re not lost just finding light
Phone dead on the kitchen tile
Rent notice taped to the screen
But I got a guitar with a broken string
And a song that won’t let me lean
Rise up boots on the pavement
Fire in the veins no more complaint
Rise up turn the page tonight
We’re not lost just finding light
They said I’d drown in the concrete sea
Stuck in a loop of ‘can’t’and ‘maybe’
But I grabbed a pick carved my own key
Turned the tide set the city free
Rise up boots on the pavement
Fire in the veins no more complaint
Rise up turn the page tonight
We’re not lost just finding light
Finding light yeah
Rise up