(claude s.)      I can watch the time go by   Like a broken tape machine   Playing over all the parts   Of a forgotten scene      Sometimes I can feel the world   As if it were a dream   All wrapped up inside of me   I'd like to set it free      I can close my eyes to all the   Suffering I see   I can tell that all of this is   One more test for me      So rise!   We will rise above it all   Rise      All throughout our history   We try to understand   What the books don't tell us is what   Hides within the man      Still we'll remember all the   Pain that brought us here   Don't regret the struggles that will   Stay in you for years...      So rise!   We will rise above it all   Rise      We can rise so high   Above the great divided skies   We can make ourselves believe   We know the reasons why...      So rise!   We will rise above it all      Rise      (we will all ascend)