Verse 1:
I sit on the same steps as alcoholics and adolescent kids
stained pavements and brown bags remain as evidence
of broken souls, their stories told but seem irrelevant
the future of the city, it's a pity we're irreverent
intelligence beyond you, so you decide to act up
but you're like the police, when I arrive you call for back up
thinking violence the answer like youth picking gats up
you could be Steven Segal but still couldn't act tough
I, leave your third eye blacker than the night sky
shocking how your closest disappear like a drive by
you can catch me shooting hoops or running loose in mic booths
exposing phoney rappers with no cores like apple juice
till they get crushed like an anvil, here I am, I stand true
to become a station for change like Granville
you don't wanna test L-FRESH you're too irregular
Life's a game of chess and I'm ten steps ahead of ya
wrecking the next competitor, upsetting the new school
with my true school vernacular and lessons set to damage ya
My style advances like computers with a strike like barracudas
coz I carry more weight than the biggest loser

Chorus (x2):
yo, I'm forever rising ya'll
from the front to the back, I am down for the cause
but everywhere I go it's like they want me to fall
but I'm forever rising ya'll
forever rising

Verse 2:
I transcend the daily, let the world of dreams take me
got nothing to lose so I move with what God gave me
this world is too small for one man, try and catch me
even KRS-One couldn't rap me
ha, coz I'm a soldier like coptic, no-one could ever stop this
a revelation like the apocalypse
never been a drop kick, more like the goal
the one your remember till the day you are old
I don't keep it real, I keep it realistic
my spirits always lifted coz at present I have been gifted
I choose not to get baked like a biscuit
I reflect light from the sun even though I eclipse it
I expand like elastics, since four I've been fantastic
busting classics for all those who never had shit
when I'm on the mic it's show time like I am magic
my aim is to one day be global like an atlas

Chorus (x 2)

Verse 3:
those at the top they talk doo doo like scooby
the industry's killing us slowly like the fugees
this is real life, it ain't the movies
no light's-camera-action, no scene cuts can remove me
my style is mystic like a Sufi, poetic when I let it
loose, in the booth I'm energetic
when I'm out to get it MCs need to call paramedics
life shows no mercy, it brings you down if you upset it
I work at relationships when I'm out to see
I feel empathetic for whoever is out for me
coz they're clinging onto hope like widows looking out to sea
I found eternal life in this game like alchemy
perfection is illusive for those tryna capture it
success isn't overnight, it ain't no accident
lyrically extravagant, I found where the magic is
forever rising against the average kid

Chorus (x 2)

Outro (repeat until end):
I said I'm more than surviving
I'm forever rising
nobody can stop me now.