Raise It Up

Raise It Up
Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theater

No father figure in the house
and i'm wonderin' how i'm gonna work it out
oh my friends keep on tellin' me
how i don't need that man
but they don't really understand

there's far too many presures in reality
but dealing with the pain and stress and poverty
and i gotta be myself because
there's nobody else for me (nohhhh)

(heading there with me)
sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child
(so don't give up)so don't give up
(when presures come down)
sometimes it takes a different kind of dream to make you smile
(so raise it up)so raise
(hang in there with me)
sometimes we need another helping hand to show the ways
(so don't give up) so don't give up
(when presures come down)
Sometimes it seems impossible and that's why we pray
(so raise it up) we raise


seems to be nothing left for me
mommas gone daddy didnt wanna be
and now im all by myself wonderin where is love or
should i just give up

life falls down on me, cuts into my soul
But I know I got the strength to make it throgh it all
Cause I'm still standing tall
Breaking throgh this wall I'm gonna give my all

feelin like a motherless child
hankered into my soul
its bringing me down cant find my smile
on a face of a motherless child
im gonna break down these walls gonna give it my all ya know
yeah yeah yeah yeahhhh

(heading there with me)
sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child
(so don't give up)so don't give up
(when presures come down)
sometimes it takes a different kind of dream to make you smile
(so raise it up)so raise
(hang in there with me)
sometimes we need another helping hand to show you the ways
(so don't give up) so don't give up
(when presures come down)
Sometimes it seems impossible and that's why we pray
(so raise it up)So raise it up