[ti:raise it up ] [ar:Jamia Simone Nash] [al:148714] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Raise It Up - Jamia Simone Nash/Impact Repertory Theatre [00:12.55]No father figure in the house [00:17.05]And i'm wonderin' how i'm gonna work it out [00:20.53]Oh my friends keep on tellin' me [00:23.45]How i don't need that man [00:25.35]But they don't really understand [00:27.03]There's far too many presures in reality [00:30.53] [00:31.25]But dealing with the pain and stress and poverty [00:34.60]And i gotta be myself because [00:38.51]There's nobody else for me (nohhhh) [00:41.06](heading there with me)sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child [00:47.30]So don't give up)so don't give up [00:49.41](when presures come down)sometimes it takes a different kind of dream to make you smile [00:52.98](so raise it up)so raise [00:55.50](hang in there with me)sometimes we need another helping hand to show the ways [01:00.87](so don't give up) so don't give up [01:03.07](when presures come down)sometimes it seems inpossible and that's why we pray [01:07.57](so raise it up) we raise [01:09.21]HOPE seems to be nothing left for me [01:12.04]Mommas gone daddy didnt wanna be [01:14.24]And now i'm all by myself wonderin where is love or [01:19.99]Should i just give up [01:21.86] [01:22.74]Life falls down on me cuts into my soul [01:25.54]But i know i got the strength to make it throgh it all [01:30.13]Cause i'm still standin tallbreaking throgh this wall i'm gonna give my all [01:34.57]HOPE feelin like a motherless child [01:38.47]Hankered into my soul [01:41.47]Its bringing me down can't find my smile [01:46.02]On a face of a motherless child [01:49.32]I'm gonna break down these walls gonna give it my all ya know [01:52.32]Yeah yeah yeah yeahhhh [01:54.57](hang in there with me)sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child [02:02.89]So don't give up)so don't give up [02:04.66](when pressures come down)sometimes it takes a different kind of dream to make a smile [02:08.87](so raise it up) so raise it up [02:11.68](hang in there with me) raise it up [02:13.83]Sometimes it takes another helping hand to show you the way [02:16.13](so don't give up when presures come down) [02:18.91]HOPE sometimes it seems impossible thats why we pray [02:22.43]SO RAISE IT UP