die and watch over you (believe that) I wish you know how much I cared You'd see my love is true, that love we'd share (of course!) Believe that yo (
alone It's the seed.. that must grow regardless of the fact that, it's been planted in stone Can you see.. the pride of the panther In the concrete jungle
[singing] The rose that grew from concrete, yeah The tree that wasn't meant to be Though I.. struggle in my life, I never give up And you.. know that
every man Some will acknowledge it, others will fail to understand There is no fear in a shallow heart Because shallow hearts don't fall apart But feeling hearts that
hang up the phone You will no longer be alone Together we can never fall Because our love will conquer all [RasDaveed chants] [Verse 2] [Providence]
they see me on TV, I tell them we equal Don't look at me as a stranger, I'm one of your own We was rised in concrete and grew as a rose Still I rise,
[Malcolm Jamal Warner] Let me show you, the rhyme.. Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glasses and so does Mrs. Justice by her side Both the broads are
Pac? (I'm down with 'Pac) Are you down with 'Pac? (Are you down with 'Pac?) Yeah I'm down with 'Pac (yeah papi) And we bout to take this one from the
{*singing in other language*} [Danny Glover - over singing] When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified
on the rose that grew from concrete" You gon' be like, "Damn! A rose grew from the concrete?!" Same thing with me, y'knahmean? I grew out of all of this
torn I find it hard to carry on And if I had an ear to confide in I would cry amongst my treasured friends A-but who do you know that stops that long
Daniel broke the king's decree, Peter stepped from the ship to the sea there was hope for Job like a cut down tree, I hope that there's such hope for
He's braggin' about his new Jordan's The baby just ran out of milk He's buyin' gold every two weeks The baby just ran out of pampers He's buyin' clothes
'knowhatI'msayin? The Last Poets did it with poetry And uhh, and and.. even in our history from a ancient Afl- African civilization poets went from village to village And that
problems plaguin' my mind, was suddenly dissapeared It was re-birth of my heart, the day that you became my friend 'Cause I knew for the moment I held you, that
no significance" I waited and died in ignorance but my inner eye can see, erase who reigned as king in another place The green trees were reached from
freeze It spreads, throughout yo' spirit like a, ruthless, feeling disease The walls, the walls that once were down now stand firm and tall, safe from
wife So you heard when I asked that night you'd be my wife Not for this year or next but mine for all life (That's right, that's right) To accept me