VESOTA, Ella Wright, Ricquelle Miles, Stephon Marcus (soloists), Zaya Bates (spoken word artist)

Additional lyrics and music by VESOTA

I am here. Can you hear me calling out? For I’m weary now.
I need help now. Can you hear me calling out? For I’m weary now.
On the other side, will we be the same on the other side?
Or will you and I grow up through the pain?
What have we heard? What have we seen?
What have we learned? What does it mean?

On the other side of fear is when our dreams finally appear.
On the other side of pain, we make sure they aren’t gone in vain.
When disease took over, we became mundane from day to day.
I’m breaking the chain, ‘cause no matter what you say,
we won’t let Corona get in our way.
(Rise up) Come on, get up on your feet and (Rise up)
We’ll be shooting through the breeze, you’ll (Find us).
With an eye to victory, ‘cause together we’re better
than any powerful disease.
No matter the weather, we won’t be admitting defeat.
Birds of a feather, whenever we fall down on our knees.
Guaranteed, it’s our reality, please believe, that soon,
we are gonna be!

This is a message to the people that we’re all standing equal.
Ain’t no take back, ‘less you can give back the lives
that you took, but you can’t, no retract Ain’t no
retract, ‘specially not a kneecap. Bust into her house
and everybody oversees that. Tired of the cop slack,
tired of the talk back. All black lives matter, three
states, all facts. (Rise up) Time to stop the bigotry,
we’ll (Rise up) Ain’t no cage, we got the key, you’ll
(Find us). With our fists up, feet down stomping out a
melody that will create surround sound. Waves going
everywhere, message going from here to there I’ll see
you there, but you better make sure that your voice is
up. Everybody screaming “Black Lives Matter!” so that
they know it’s us!

I will find you, stand beside you.
I will meet you, see you be there—on the other side!
—Kyle Pederson and VESOTA