“Died a thousand times, Managed to survive, I can’t break down now”

I Rise – the second song from Madame X to be released before the album drops on June 14 – has been made available today and you can find it on your favourite streaming platform, or download it with your album pre-order.
This beautiful ballad opens with the voice of Emma González, Emma González the American activist who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, and in response co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD. The intro is from the final part of Emma’s We Call B.S. speech at the Rally to Support Firearm Safety Legislation in in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 17, 2018.

Written by Jason Evigan, Madonna and Brittany Talia Hazzard, I Rise is the last track on the Madame X album.

Intro
Us kids don’t know what we’re talking about, that we’re too young to understand how the government works. We call B.S.

I’m going through it
Yeah, I know you see the tragic in it
Just hold on to the little bit of magic in it
I can’t break down now
I can’t take that now
Died a thousand times
Managed to survive
I can’t break down now
I can’t take that (I can’t take that)

I rise
I rise
I rise up above it
Up above it
I rise
I rise
I rise
Up above it all

There’s nothing you can do to me that hasn’t been done
Not bulletproof, should have run from a gun
River of tears ran dry
Let ’em run
No game that you can play with me
I ain’t one

‘Cause I’m going through it
Yeah, I know you see the tragic in it (alright)
Just hold on to the little bit of magic in it
I can’t break down now
I can’t take that now (I can’t take that)
Died a thousand times
Managed to survive (I managed to survive)
I can’t break down now
I can’t take that

(Rise)
I rise (I rise)
I rise (rise)
I rise up above it
Up above it (rise)
I rise (I rise)
I rise (rise)
I rise
Up above it all

I managed to survive
Freedom’s what you choose to do with what’s been done to you
No one can hurt you now unless you want them to (unless you want)
No one can hurt you now unless you love ’em too (BS!)
Unless you love ’em too

‘Cause I’m going through it
Yeah, I know you see the tragic in it
Just hold on to the little bit of magic in it (magic in it)
I can’t break down now
I can’t take that (I can’t take that)

(Rise)
I rise (I rise)
I rise (rise)
I rise up above it
Up above it (rise)
I rise (rise)
I rise (rise)
I rise
Up above it all

Outro
Yeah, we gonna rise up
Yeah, we gonna rise up
Yeah, we gonna get up
Yeah, we gonna get up
Yeah, we gonna get up
Yes, we can
We can get it together
We’ll rise up
We can get it together
Yeah, we gonna rise up
Yeah, we gonna rise up
Yeah, we gonna get up
Yeah, we gonna get up
Yeah, we gonna get up
Yes, we can
We can get it together
We’ll rise up
We can get it together