I Will Overcome Lyrics – RAYE

Read the full I Will Overcome. lyrics by RAYE from the album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Raye’s music, you can also explore Joy and Nightingale Lane, two other songs by Raye.

[Intro]
I’ll overcome (She will, she will, she will, ooh)
I’ll overcome (Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed, she will)
There’s a thin grey veil over her horizon
The wall between hope and despair
She exists behind it
She will overcome

[Verse 1]
Five hundred steps left to make it to the front door
My red high heels click, click, four many too drinks I feel my backbone
Threaten to greet the concrete below
I mean, who wants to bе in Paris drunk and alone?
Where thе phantom of a past love lingers in the cracks of
The cobblestones that I march on and it haunts me and it taunts me
And su-su-su-suddenly, in a reflection of a Chanel boutique window
I can see the old me and I hate her
I feel syrup strands of blue moonlight pour through the clouds
To find me out like a spotlight, as if Heaven’s watching down
To illustrate briefly the state of my mind
I have black cat-eye glasses, so I look chic as I cry
And it’s funny, some people say I remind them of Amy
Some spit through their keyboards, I’ll never amount
And the evil in insults, the arrows from your tongue
Is the same devils you tortured her with
Anyhow, I

[Chorus]
I’ll overcome (She will, she will, she will)
I’ll overcome (Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed)
When this wicked world wants to whisper
“You cannot, you won’t be, you will not
So go home and shut up and go sleep”
This is a song to remind me, since I needed one
I will overcome

[Post-Chorus]

There’s a thin grey veil over her horizon
The wall between hope and despair (Yes, I will, yes, I will, yes, I will, yes, I will)
She exists behind it
She will overcome
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I will, oh

[Verse 2]
Five hundred steps back and I was doing so well (So well)
Whilst scrolling, I sighed (I’m so jealous)
Of everyone online who is so much happier
And content and complete (To feel better, I shall arrange a sad little feast)
Where I will jump up and down on my bed in my grief
And I’ll play Edith Piaf and I’ll dance and I’ll
Eat chocolate cake and I’ll have no regrets till I
Wake up and hate me now, I must know, anyhow
I will keep on

[Chorus]
I’ll overcome (She will, she will, she will)
I’ll overcome (Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed)
When this wicked world wants to whisper
“You cannot, you won’t be, you will not
So go home and shut up and go sleep”
This is a song to remind me, since I needed one

[Bridge]
Five hundred steps left, maybe I have lost count
My battery died, so I’m not sure if I turn left or turn right
As my eyes gathered tears, it’s as if it was staged
How all the night skies above start to thunder and rain
Like a Hollywood movie with some sad exceptions
No lover to kiss, or promised happy endings
I’ll swing ’round this street lamp and I’ll give you a story
You may say I look crazy, but I won’t even care
Aren’t we all broken people? Just perfect how to hide it
And life’s guarantee’s that we’re all going to die
So am I going to live like this all of my life?
I’m not okay right now
But I’ll get there somehow, I

[Chorus]
I’ll overcome, I-I-I, I-I
I’ll overcome (She will, she will)
When this wicked world wants to whisper
“You cannot, you won’t be, you will not
So go home and shut up and go sleep”
This is my song to remind me, I needed one
I will overcome, oh, oh, oh

[Outro]
There’s a thin grey veil over her horizon
And it is the wall between hope and despair
She exists behind it, she will overcome