In the deepest well of sorrow In the silent heart of darkness In the numbing cold You will find a family album That holds all the ghostly figures Of a story untold Gonna rise, gonna rise up singing Gonna raise the bucket from down in the well And I feel like I'm just beginning Cause I made that choice, to raise that voice And that bucket's gonna rise, rise up singing Like a bell without a clapper With no story, no reprieve This is where I hear the pounding Of my pulse against my sleeve Gonna rise, gonna rise up singing Gonna raise the bucket from down in the well And I feel like I'm just beginning Cause I made that choice, to raise that voice And that bucket's gonna rise, rise up singing In this silence is a mystery Three monkeys with no face Are there voices in our history? Vanished, with no trace Deep and dark beneath the surface Shrouded with encryption Blind and pacified Will we wonder why there's hatred If the truth is truly sacred And no longer classified? Gonna rise, gonna rise up singing Gonna raise the bucket from down in the well There's a time, a time for forgiving I can feel the weight of the rope pulled straight But that bucket's gonna rise, rise up singing