Ascension from Divine Wisdom by Phillip Saint John

[Intro]
Waiting finding that place inside of me

[Verse 1]
When I was younger I was playing by myself in rooms for days
that turned to years and turned my pages to a hermit in a maze
my emotions and my thoughts distracted had to make my way
through shadow figures guarding portals so the sheep could not escape
I tried to sleep to my dismay I learned too much now I’m awake
Inside a fever dream of powerful elites that bar the gates to my ascension
But my mental builds dimensions in my brain in the space that they couldn’t fill with hate

[Chorus]
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now
Why do we cave when we get what we want
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now
Why do we cave when we

[Verse 2]
Put me on ten like you never really heard this
Well you have now that I found my purpose
Feeling this high don’t know where the earth is
Meditate levitate gone from the surface
The word is pass the mic to pacify these pastures past the lies
Got us moving b-backwards fast I’m magnifying facts before decline
Which way should the wave shift
Have patience nah it’s right now and we have to face it
Way gone from the days peace feigned the basics
Move on from the money made too complacent
I got me a spaceship my crew is on to make songs that can heal the nation
Tell em you can sing a long or be gone to hatred
I just gotta put it on for my generation yeah yeah

[verse 3]
And now I’m older had to shoulder weight of worlds
That grew from boulders to the mountains to pangea
From exposure of our leaders full of power yet the weakest they devour
All the forest and the streams for our ease of the sequence
Like we’re made of diseases at our worst but best believe it
If we pick apart the demons at the top so we don’t need em
Maybe then one day we’ll stop the overharvest of our mother
Red tears from her eyes still bleeding

[Chorus]
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now
Why do we cave when we get what we want
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now (right now)
It’s hard to get up it’s hard to stay up now
Why do we cave when we-

[Verse 4]
I don’t suppose you will oppose if you g-get what you wanted
And meet the quota in the corner of your cubicle knowing
We’ll be too old to leave our problems for the children that’s haunted
So think before you sit there posting heavy potions and tonic
Feeling down bad cause we can’t stay up
Pushing right back when I say so what
Till I’m in a toe tag and my bag sewn shut
I’ll be laying down tracks till the world wakes up
I know the spirit in me is strong
More than the fear and what we did wrong
Feels like forever look at our clock it’s going
Till it’s gone

[Outro]
Waiting finding that place inside of me
Waiting finding that place inside of me

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