Defying Gravity (We’ll Rise Above) – The Maccabeats 2024 Hanukkah Anthem

Defying Gravity originally by Stephen Schwartz

Lyrics by Noey Jacobson

Additional lyrics by the Maccabeats

Arranged by Tom Anderson

Edited by Alex Green for Plaid Productions

Mixed by Ed Boyer



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Lyrics:

Some things have changed around us

Some things have stayed the same

Through every change we’ve weathered

Our spirit always burns the same.



When shadows rise to meet us

Our flame will burn through the night

An ancient spark ignites

And fills the void with light.



We’ll rise above, defying gravity

Through every trial defying gravity

And they won’t bring us down.



Our light will continue to shine

this flame is no trick or delusion



Never accepted limits,

Cause someone says they’re so

Thousands of years so far

But we’ve still got a ways to go.



No time to be afraid of

Those who’d try to see us gone

They didn’t know the strength that we’ve had all along.



We’ll rise above, defying gravity

Through every trial defying gravity

And they won’t bring us down.



So if your faith is shaken

Pray to the Eastern sky

As someone told me lately

Od Avinu, Am Yisrael Chai



We’re never flying solo

We’re never left alone

To those who’d ground us

Here’s a message of our own



We’ll rise above, defying gravity

We’ll shine our light, defying gravity

And we will make our presence known.

In every land that we call home

We’ll say it loud and make it known,

You’re never gonna bring us down.