Like a king/I'll rise (live 2001)

[00:06.82] Well, Martin's dream
[00:09.85] Has become Rodney's worst
[00:15.81] Nightmare
[00:18.35] Can't walk the streets
[00:21.32] To them we are fair game
[00:25.98] Our lives don't mean a thing
[00:29.62] Like a king, like a king, like a king
[00:35.34] Rodney king, Rodney king, Rodney king
[00:40.92] Like a king, like a king, like a king
[00:46.84] How I wish you could help us, Dr. King
[00:52.81] Make sure that it's filmed
[00:55.44] Shown on national TV
[01:00.58] They'll have no mercy
[01:03.40] A legal lynch mob
[01:06.49] Like the days strung up from the tree
[01:11.98] The L.A.P.D.
[01:14.96] Like a king, like a king, like a king
[01:20.34] Rodney king, Rodney king, Rodney king
[01:25.50] Like a king, like a king, like a king
[01:31.35] How I wish that you could help us, Dr. King
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[03:40.41] Catch yourself
[03:42.59] Thinking it has changed for the best
[03:47.65] You are like all the rest
[03:50.83] 'Cause Martin's dream
[03:53.72] Has become Rodney's worst
[03:59.64] Nightmare
[04:01.59] Like a king, like a king, like a king
[04:06.74] Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
[04:12.08] Like a king, like a king, like a king
[04:17.64] How I wish that you could help us, oh, Martin, Martin King
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[04:42.44] I see, when will they look to the past, look to the past and learn?
[04:49.20] How much has to burn?
[04:54.70] And by and by
[04:56.25] We will be with the king
[05:00.54] By and by they must go to face the king
[05:05.91] Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
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[05:28.24] So you may write me down in history
[05:32.47] With your bitter, twisted lies
[05:35.65] You may trod me down in the very dirt
[05:39.95] And still like the dust I'll rise
[05:43.41] Does my happiness upset you?
[05:47.47] Why are you best with gloom?
[05:50.90] 'Cause I'm laughing like I got an oil well
[05:55.30] Pumping in my living room?
[05:58.46] So you may you shoot me with your words
[06:02.28] You may cut me with your eyes
[06:06.08] And I'll rise
[06:08.52] I'll rise, I'll rise, rise, rise
[06:13.42] Out of the shacks of history's shame
[06:17.27] Up from a past rooted in pain
[06:21.47] I'll rise
[06:23.25] I'll rise, I'll rise, rise, rise
[06:28.17] Now, did you want to see me broken?
[06:32.62] Bowed head and lowered eyes
[06:36.47] Shoulders fallen down like teardrops
[06:40.08] Weakened by my soulful cries?
[06:43.36] Does my confidence offend you?
[06:46.95] Don't you take this awful hard
[06:50.74] 'Cause I'm walking like I've got a gold mine
[06:54.25] Diggin' up in my backyard
[06:57.20] So you may shoot me with your words
[07:01.09] You may cut me with your eyes
[07:05.15] And I'll rise
[07:07.30] I'll rise, I'll rise, rise
[07:12.34] Out of the shacks of history's shame
[07:15.88] Up from a past rooted in pain
[07:19.52] I'll rise
[07:21.76] I'll rise
[07:23.65] I'll rise, rise, rise
[07:26.56] So you may write me down in your history
[07:31.12] You better trust it last
[07:34.45] You may trod me down in the very dirt
[07:38.74] And still like the dust I'll rise
[07:42.02] Does my confidence upset you?
[07:46.25] Why are you best with gloom
[07:49.21] 'Cause I'm laughing like I've got an oil well
[07:52.80] Pumpin' in my living room?
[07:55.81] So you may shoot me with your words
[07:59.83] You may cut me with your eyes
[08:03.44] And I'll rise
[08:05.89] I'll rise
[08:07.59] I'll rise, I'll rise, rise, rise
[08:10.77] Out of the shacks of history's shame
[08:14.35] Up from a past rooted in pain
[08:18.40] I'll rise
[08:20.23] I'll rise, I'll rise, rise, rise
[08:25.14] And still I'll rise
[08:27.87] I'll rise
[08:29.50] I'll rise, rise, rise
[08:32.38] And still I'll rise
[08:35.01] I'll rise
[08:36.70] I'll rise, rise, rise, rise, rise
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[08:51.26] Thank you very much indeed
[08:55.34] Thank you all for being here tonight, thank you
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