Andra Day
Rise Up
2015 · Cheers to the Fall
Official music video. Official music video on the Andra Day channel, from Cheers to the Fall. Warner Records.
Documented
Single by Andra Day, released 28 August 2015, from the album Cheers to the Fall. Warner. Written by Andra Day and Jennifer Decilveo. The official video on her channel was directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
What can be seen or heard
The lyric is repeated rising: get up, again, and move. The official video shows care, a body that does not move easily, and a day that is still lived. The picture is perseverance in a life. It does not, by itself, name a realm above this one.
What the artist said
Day told Time that she wrote it after a close friend was diagnosed with cancer, while her own work and life felt stuck. She called the song a sort of prayer, much of it from a first freestyle, including lines she would usually have found too plain. That is the documented occasion. A metaphysical system is not in that interview.
Living Realm comparison
Two comparisons stay open. Ascension: the rising is a way out of the cycle, up and gone. Return: the rising is getting up again inside the same life, which is also what her account describes. Neither reading is declared the song. Her prayer for a friend remains the documented center. The two comparisons are here so they are not collapsed into one.
Related
A link is a place to compare. It does not move this recording onto that record.