Friends, foes and firewood are gathering in the tenaments tonightnWhile the fast one amongst them brings home food for those too slownFor too many years they have lived on these streetsnAnd their freedom just a memory as the darkness repeatsnBut somehow everything is turning upside downnnBRIDGEnAnd they've been sleeping in the subwaynThe only place they call their ownnnCHORUSnAnd eventually they rise, yes they risenAnd they rise in their own way (Repeat)nnTheir daughter ran away todaynDidn't have a lot to saynThey wondered whynShe comes in twice a week to wash her clothes and watch her mother crynThere's too many eyes watching her fmaily homenNow the seeds of revolution inside her are sownnAnd somehow everything is turning upside downnnBRIDGE, CHORUSnnHer only daughter left her many years agonAnd still she don't know whynShe said Don't you worry mother, you will never see me crynnYes they rise in their own way(Repeat)nAnd they rise in their own way(Repeat)n(Repeat)