[Hook] I waited all the night to play I still can't find a way But if I work it one more day I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain
Lupe Fiasco [Verse 1]
Freedom, we can use some of that especially where we from Where we grew up like a green thumb Its like a criminal is the only thing you can become Look at what I became Something like a phenom, nothin but a g thang Things I've seen when I'm looking out of these frames Pictures I painted on the walls where we hang From the trees we hung Strange fruit man look at how we swung How the hell you gonna tell us something We ain't have a father How to try to grow up and be one See umm feel it in my bones That I'm sittin on a throne Like a killer with a crone When I slit another poach Shed a whole lot of light on a little bit of home
[Hook] I waited all the night to play I still can't find a way But if I work it one more day I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain
Sway [Verse 2] Super swatter, the kid remains but I represent I ain't no paper planes. I'm fly Plus, I dont write no more, sorta from the top I'll show you razor stay sharp But I knew how to razor blade I've paid my dues and now I wait for change Because the flows so rude It goes without asking Lupe I'm so big, you aim to break ???????????????????????????
[Hook] I waited all the night to play I still can't find a way But if I work it one more day I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain
Lupe Fiasco [Verse 3] Chain broke, you ain't make a rep for your chain smoke No cigarrettes on my plane, yo Stunt your ham bones from the game though Put it on mine, take a long time B-A-Barock is how I'm livin' online On a webisode like let's go let 'em know That I put up the footage that I'm takin' your shine Wanna see the real change? look in your mind Your brain look like your ? brotha Overgrow, overload, broken zone Niggas playing games in the hood they got you stuck-up Playa thinkin' that its cool to be a pimp still We gon' set it free like a fish in a ?? Take this home, rearrange it, change it Danger, Sway-zer, Lupe Laser. Pow!
[Hook] I waited all the night to play I still can't find a way But if I work it one more day I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain I might just break the Chain
Now what if I told you my city was the best And my city was a threat to the rest And my city was a threat to the rest This city is my city And I love it yeah I love it I was born and raised here I got it made here And if I have my way I'm gonna stay From every corner To every block yeah And whether it's warm or storming it down or right stupid hot hot From the colors all the way to the solutions yeah Forget all the drugs and gangs corruption and pollution no Cause this city is my city And I love it yeah I love it I was born and raised here I got it made here And if I have my way I'm gonna stay here For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh Now what if I told you my city was the best And my city was a threat to the rest But you can't rest inside my city My city's so cold if you ain't dressed And what they accept better had a right address Come to my city certain colors can't step And sadly I'm talking about the color of your skin Sorry my brother can't let you in Cause the property value might go down to a level that's Economically unacceptable and socially tabu fast to live around you Uh uh is this what it's down to Roof for the same team nigga had the same dream Not the same reality Actually mines is a bad education and gentrification Despite all the above I love This city is my city And I love it yeah I love it I was born and raised here I got it made here And if I have my way I'm gonna stay here For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh And you can take it back Picture you can take it back But you're never gonna take my city away Cause you can burn it to the ground Oh or let it flood but it's in my blood Cause this city is my city And I love it yeah I love it I was born and raised here I got it made here And if I have my way I'm gonna stay here For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life uh huh For life
Hey, little girl, don't cry, dry your eyes I wrote this song for you Now, it goes down
Can you imagine every world? Every boy and every girl They'd all get the same things They'd all get the same things
A little dough, a lot of love With a mom and dad to hug They'd all get the same things
Huh, but down here the world is real And it don't matter how you feel Because, we don't get the same things We don't get the same things
You got to work to stay alive Forty hours, from 9 to 5 We don't get the same things
All my gangster friends, yeah And all my skater friends (What they want?) We all want the same thing (What we want, now?) We all want the same thing, yeah
DJ's in the clubs, Jesus, freaks and thugs We all want the same thing Same thing, same thing Same thing, same thing, now
And, I think about the way All the politicians say (What they saying, now?) Say they want to change things Say they want to change things
But every year, they take some more And I don't know what it's for Though, they never change things (They don't change nothing)
But, if you want to make it stop, stop Well, first, you got to start Making some big, old changes Doing some different things, yeah
Get up out your bed, think outside your head And you won't get the same things Same thing, same thing Same thing, now
All my gangster friends And all my skater friends (What they want, now?) We all want the same thing (What we want, now?) I said, we all want the same thing
DJ's in the clubs, Jesus, freaks and thugs We all want the same thing Same thing, same thing Same thing now
All my ex-girlfriends And all their new boyfriends (What they doing, now?) They all want the same thing (What they want, now?) I said, they all want the same thing
From Wall Street to the hood New York and Hollywood We all want the same thing, yeah (And what you say, what you say?)
This is a message to Remind you there's just one who calls love
All my gangster friends (What they want, now?) And all my skater friends We all want the same thing I said, we all want the same thing
DJ's in the clubs, Jesus, freaks and thugs We all want the same thing Same thing, same thing Same thing, same thing now
All my ex-girlfriends (What they want?) And all their new boyfriends They all want the same thing I said, they all want the same thing
From Wall Street to the hood New York and Hollywood We all want the same thing, yeah We all want the same thing, yeah
Your mind's all a flutter no pigs on the gig, no swine for the supper No wine in the cupboard, everything of mine must show signs of the suffer And keep you oppressed to the other, struggle To keep it all fresh like tupper One of the tougher ginger bread men out the cutter, Skin ain't Huck Finn but I ain't Nigger Jim mother fucker I'm more like clubber from the upper cut of the gutter Never can't tell I won't bow down to the bull like Calculta That ain't what I'm rapping for, I'd rather be a matador So tar, tar, rev and roar I know that sounds fucked up like a raptor/rap tour? But there's no roof clips if I lose so I choose To keep on seeing red like crips in Ha! He the guy who rise to eye pools ... Hey I must admit it, I ain't sayin I'm the best OH! ... Niggas just jealous, cuz what i got restin on my neck OH! Cuz it took me from down on the ground to soarin' like a G4! Mug if you want to, bug if you want to, chill if you want to Strug if you want to, build if you want to, joke if you want to Disrespect me, that's what you wan' do
Been around the world the things that I've seen These things get turned into things that I sing Things stringed together with similes in between Then ming with the thing Since little green marines I Been, mean, jing ming, ring, ling, string, bean, dream, team, bling, bling, 3, rings, ring, ling ...
So move towards it, I had to root for it like my home team, now they all lean, Singin' that Queen, Somebody to Love, Rhapsody Boheem, we are Champeens, Ya'll that worried bout the dust better stay on your scene? I drop the lyric with...
You can document it, call it Bye Bo Leen? I got the spirit I fly over Wayne It's the fly MC...
I must admit it, I ain't sayin I'm the best OH! ... Niggas just jealous, cuz what i got restin on my neck OH! Cuz it took me from down on the ground to soarin' like a G4! Mug if you want to, bug if you want to, chill if you want to Strug if you want to, build if you want to, joke if you want to Disrespect me, that's what you wan' do
I'm preforming mama, now everybody know me mama, All these hoes on me mama, why the hell you ain't want me mama, hey I'm preforming mama, now everybody know me mama, All these hoes on me mama, why the hell you ain't want me mama
Success is my friend, who knew that when I grew up I'd be just like him Expect my roar if you reject my whim, errect my law, respect my pim I bring the pain, Method Men, I bring the pain S&M, jump the family one of my bestest friends, Try and kill us all your deaths breaks in, I'll just reply with excess winds Please God correct my sins to protect my kin, as they keep thinking ... my leg...
I must admit it, I ain't sayin I'm the best OH! ... Niggas just jealous, cuz what i got restin on my neck OH! Cuz it took me from down on the ground to soarin' like a G4! Mug if you want to, bug if you want to, chill if you want to Strug if you want to, build if you want to, joke if you want to Disrespect me, that's what you wan' do
Take me to that old familiar place Take me to memories we won’t erase Take me to all that we had Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you I’ll never let you go I’ll never forget you I’ll always remember, I hope you know
Let the record reflect the records we set Best foot forward with every step And let’s push towards it, never regress And let’s remember, if ever we get Down, the places that we came from ’round And all the good times on the bad side of town The upside of bad, flip it upside down Came from the bottom but we up high now Believe, and from this view we achieved We looked back at the rules we received And how we broke those, dismantled and rewrote those And the ghost still alive in the photos Sounds of the summer, day and go wise Cold wind blowin’ through a city on fire Moments of the past, came here to find you Not to relive them, just to remind you
Take to that old familiar place Take me to memories we won’t erase Take me to all that we had Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you I’ll never let you go I’ll never forget you I’ll always remember, I hope you know
And let the evidence show, the future’s so bright It’s never been more, not like tonight We walk into the glow, right into the light The past all around us, the time of our life The first love kisses, the broke heart disses This is just like a first-class ticket Back, to the first written rap The crumbled-up paper and the pen with no cap The hand-me-down clothes and the unturned hat The hookers on the corner and the kids sellin’ crack The needles in the yard where we used to play catch Stories from the project we could never go at Or to, these are shades of my youth Trials of a child, everything truth Moments of the past, comin’ back to find us Not to relive them, just to remind us
Take to that old familiar place Take me to memories we won’t erase Take me to all that we had Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you I’ll never let you go I’ll never forget you I’ll always remember, I hope you know
Everything cherished, remembered in my heart So you will never perish, you will never part I tell ‘em all about you, drummin’ in the park We put you in the ground, but I see you in the stars Go’n, take a bow, a round of applause The best that ever, always ready we are Love always shines, that’s how I’ll find you In case you forgot, I hope this reminds you
Take to that old familiar place Take me to memories we won’t erase Take me to all that we had Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you I’ll never let you go I’ll never forget you I’ll always remember, I hope you know
You would never know If you could ever be If you never try You would never see Stayed in Africa We ain't never leave So there were no slaves in our history Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
[Lupe Fiasco-Verse 1] Uh, and we ain't get exploited White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it Built it up together so we equally appointed First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois Were no reconstructions, civil war got avoided Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer Extra extra on the news stands Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan Malcolm Little dies as a old man Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him Followed by bill o'reilly who read from the Quran President bush sends condolences from Iran Where fox news reports live That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize
[Hook]
[Lupe Fiasco-Verse 2] Uh, and it ain't no projects Keepin it real is not an understood concept Yea, complexions not a contest Cuz racism has no context Hip-hop ain't got a section called conscious Everybody rappin like crack never happened Crips never occurred nor bloods to attack them Matter a fact no hood to attack in Somalia is a great place to relax in Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin The rat pack was cool group of black men That inspired the five white guys called the jacksons Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him And thats a really rose up out of michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 cent
[Hook]
[Lupe Fiasco-Verse 3] Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be Now we can do nothing bout the past But we can do something about the future that we have We can make fast or we can make it last Every woman queenin' and every man a kingin' When those color lines come we can't seen between We just close our eyes till its all black everything
[Chorus:] You must be, a radio station And who are we, we must be The number 1 songs, spinning all day long And over again, and over again, and over again, and never again, and never again And we know when, When we call in, And nothings free, Sounds to me like, State run radio
[Verse 1:] We now interrupt this broadcast, To bring you a special message about the forecast, The futures cloudy and it's raining on the poor class, The roads to peace are closed, and the traffic's on the war paths, Love is balling on a budget, the military's stressing We need more cash, to keep fighting for your gas Keep us in our hoods and hope we never explore pass, Stay inside of your half, believe the lies you learn in your class, That there's no treasure in your trash, & the ceiling has the same feeling, That the floor has, and that's where you should stay, And this is what they play
[Chorus:] And over again, and over again, and never again, and never again, and never again And we know when, When we call in, And nothings free, Sounds to me like, State run radio
[Verse 2:] You're now tuned into the weakest, Frequency of fear, keep you locked right here, And hope you never leave this, never be a leader, Think inside the box, and follow all procedures, Never ever believe that, you will never need this, Hit up all your friends and tell them to repeat this, Hi, your on the air, now what you want to hear? Well we ain't got the truth, but how about a remix, Different is never good, good is only what we pick, You ain't got a hit, unless it sounds like these did, Not too smart you will be a superstar, And if you dumb or something maybe you could be number one
[Chorus:] You must be, a radio station, And who are we, we must be, The Number 1 songs, spinning all day long, And you put me, on daily rotation, You on the air, We know you're scared, But we don't care, Well bleep this here, And over again, and over again, and over again, and never again, and over again And you know when, When we call in, And nothings free, Sounds to me like, State run radio
[Verse 1:] This one goes out to the baby girls In a rush growing up in this crazy world Yeah your brother on the road and he never home I know you feeling kinda sad now that daddy gone You can't let it get you sad, gotta carry on We only lose things because it make us strong You always had my love, and now you got a song From the biggest biggest fan that you've ever known I know you want me, little girls, not for very long And you ain't gotta have a man if you don't ever want Cause I'm gonna make sure you got two of everything That you ever want, every time, like your very own Not to make you hard to respect Just really really really really hard to impress It's a whole wide world for you to go and get your hands on Until then, just come and get your dance on now
[Hook:] I see you coming up I'm a get you going down You will never work, you'll be wealthy Just as long as I'm around
[Verse 2:] This for everybody feeling good You know who you are, or you misunderstood Never had money, or you living good If you from the burbs, if you in the hood Recognize where we come from In my day, mane, I did a little somethin some- They like "how come you don't rap that? " Cause that's a backtrack and I ain't tryna back back I'm only moving forward homie that's that Direction, a lot of shoulders lack that I'm just tryna give it to 'em like [?] Now I know I'm gonna make out like a fat rat That's cool as long as they don't trap crack Graduate from school, and still let his pants sag Never catch a case, know how to let his cash stack Welcome to the [?]
[Hook]
[Bridge:] When the floor falls out I'm a be there to carry you And if you want that star I'll go get it out the sky for you If you cry, shed a tear I'm a dry your eyes Just to let you know it'll be alright
[Verse 3:] I know it's like a whole lot going on Things going right, things going wrong Maybe baby, I've been waiting for you so long Know that in this world you're never really on your own Yeah I got a [?] get him on the phone He'll never put you places where you don't belong Put you through the pain, to put you on the throne And I know that from the bottom of my corazon And if they looking at you sideways You just wave right back, tell 'em hi hater Mad you ain't hanging with 'em in the driveway Nah we gon' keep it moving to the highway [?] like Friday, chilling Shout out to King David for bringing in philly And I'm a put the independent women in the building
[Chorus:] There's only two ways, out, of, here, If your too late you'll be trapped here, forever. There's only two ways... out, of, here, Ones through the door, the others through Me
Sometimes livin' in a word like this, It's pretty hard not to go insane, Not pretty if you don't comply, Pretty easy if you don't complain, Stand there like you don't feel pain, No tears in the face of defeat, Pretend to the end that you don't feel change, Don't admit it that your faith is weak, Don't say that you feel like dying, Life's hard that it feels like diamonds, Go home, shit's far too gone, Much too late to even feel like trying, Can't understand what I'm saying, Can't figure out what I'm implying, If you feel you don't want to be alive, You feel just how I am...
I'm on the dark side, And you can't come find me, How? when it's light all around you, Yeah but it's dark on the inside, No win when it's me against me, One of us ain't gonna survive, My heart been broke for a while, Yours has been the one keeping me alive
[Chorus:] There's only two ways, out, of, here, If your too late you'll be trapped here, forever. There's only two ways... out, of, here, Ones through the door, the others through Me
This world's such a fucked up place, My mind's in such a fucked up shape Everything down here sucks, Maybe what's up there is great, We all gotta go one day, I just wanna cut to the chase, I wanna stop these nightmares, I just wanna touch your face, All you see is all my feats, All I see is all my flaws, All I can hear is all my demons, Even through your applause, All you see is all my flights, All I see is all my falls, All you see is all my rights, All I see is all my wrongs, Go on keep telling me to fight, Gun on my table telling me to come on Tellin me to put it inside my head, Then put it up right next to my dome, Don't keep tellin me to find a reason, Anything to keep me from squeezing
Simplest things yeah you really like summer You really like music, you really like reading I can't win if it's me against me One of us ain't gon survive And my heart been broke for a while Yours been the one keeping me alive Yours been the one keeping me alive Yours been the one keeping me alive
[Chorus:] There's only two ways, out, of, here, If your too late you'll be trapped here, forever. There's only two ways... out, of, here, Ones through the door, the others through Me
All right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onHave you ever had the feelin'that you was bein' hadDon't that shit theremake you madThey treat you like a slavePut chains all on your souland put whips up on your backThey be lyin' through they teethhope you slip up off your pathI don't switch upI just laughput my kicks up on they deskUnaffected by they threatsthen get busy on they assSee, that how thatChi-town made methat's how my daddy raised meThat glitterin' may not be gold,don't let nobody play meIf you are my homeboyyou'll never have to pay meGo'n and put your hands upwhen times is hardyou stand upL U P the mancuz the brand that the fans trustSo even if they ban usthey'll never slow my plans upAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right, alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onOne in the air for thepeople ain't hereTwo in the air for thefather that's thereThree in the air for thekids in the ghettoFour for the kids thatdon't wanna be thereNone for the niggastryna hold them backFive in the air for theteachers not scaredTo tell those kids that's livin'in the ghettoThat the niggas holdin' back thatthe world is theirsYeah, yeah, the world is yoursI was once that little boyTerrified of the worldnow I'm on a world tourI will give up everythingeven start a world warFor these ghetto girls and boysI'm rappin''round the world forAfrica to New YorkHaiti then I detourOakland out to AucklandGaza Strip to DetroitSay hip-hop only destroytell 'em look at me boyI hope your son don'thave a gun and never be a D boyAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onSo no matter what been throughno matter what you intoNo matter what you seewhen you look outside your windowBrown grass or green grasspicket fence or barbed wireNever ever put them downyou just lift your arms higherRaise 'em 'til your arms tiredlet 'em know you hereThat you struggling, survivin'that you gon' persevereAin't nobody leavin'nobody goin' homeEven if they turn the lights outthe show is goin' onAll right, alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes onAll right, alreadyThe show goes onAll night 'til the morningWe dream so longAnybody ever wonderWhen they would see the sun goJust remember when you come upThe show goes on
[Hook: Trey Songz] Girl I want you to know I can't get you out of my head Girl I want you to know I don't even know what you did But I love it
[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco] uh uh everything hooks everything works, you're a real good cause I'm a real good verse, freestyle unrehearsed so clean no curse and when the song's gone man everything hurts so I put it in reverse go back to the scene where I seen you first yeah, I need you to sing that single again play that video I seen you up in a hundred million scenes in my mind all day call in and request on the line always yeah, the president of your fan club leave them players all behind like a bad love
[Hook: Trey Songz] Girl I want you to know I can't get you out of my head Girl I want you to know I don't even know what you did But I love it
[Verse 2: Lupe] playa need a minute like a time out in tennis 'for I finish how'd I get in this maybe 'was your hair, maybe 'was your flair maybe it's the heels and the way you wear maybe it's you're real and the way you care you don't care if I'm ill or a millionaire the only thing that matters that the feeling's there your smile is so bright it's like a grills in there high off life, don't need a pill in there you're killing me, I think I need a will in here got me feeling real skills impaired hard to discribe why you're still in here
[Hook: Trey Songz] Girl I want you to know I can't get you out of my head Girl I want you to know I don't even know what you did But I love it
[Bridge: Trey & Lupe] don't care what nobody say cause I like it girl might go crazy try'na figure this out love (but I like it girl) don't even know why I feel this way cause I like it girl caught up in something that I can't get out of (but we like it girl)
[Hook: Trey Songz] Girl I want you to know I can't get you out of my head Girl I want you to know I don't even know what you did But I love it
I'm not a choo-choo, I'm a turbo Hater pray to God that I turn slow Like I'm sipping on purple But I ain't on your glow I'm in a whole 'nother circle Trying to keep it clean like church clothes Said that respect was something had to work for But that ain't gonna work though Get your respect, but lose all my worth, no You can dead that, get a hearse, go Don't need 48 you'll find a killer in the first floor It was me boy, to commercials Feeling out of place like PETA at a fur store So I left with a couple dozen fur coats Said I could never break away from your hold Watch me, turn though Said that I blew it like Turquoise Just mad hear it all in your word choice Know it hurts but I really don't care though Let me rub it in, get it all up in that ho
MDMA: I can see the morning creeping up on us It's like the world's in my hands now I'm feeling so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me I don't wanna care right now I don't wanna care right now No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now
[Verse 2] Oh God over everything You fly but stars over everything And I'm one of them, yeah one of them Oh I'm not one? Well I'm a hundred then I'm a hundred mother loving stars You're no lights, you're an undercover car I'm an ambulance, and a fire truck, and some strobe lights, tied up! Shining all in your eyes, all out of yours and all into mines Lights and stars is all intertwined And I'm feeling like Malcolm looking all out the blinds Any means any means, and you can do anything anything And the flow tight, skinny jeans, skinny jeans Hit you like Pacquiao, Philippines Philippines
MDMA: I can see the morning creeping up on us It's like the world's in my hands now I'm feeling so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me I don't wanna care right now I don't wanna care right now No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now
[Verse 3] Ya'll know on the letter homie, Lupe, yes sir, who they? They yester, and I'm today, and tomorrow, hooray Can I get a hip-hip for the new K-I-N-G, nigga, I am G Got the game in the clutch like Iron Sheik You ball little boy, But I N-B-A With a hand for the world, you a boy band with a dance and a twirl I'm a rockstar with a band so thorough Big ass tour bus that's jammed full of girls T-t-tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof T-t-tell em what it do, I don't care about your curfew I'll tell you when I'm through boy
MDMA: I can see the morning creeping up on us It's like the world's in my hands now I'm feeling so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me I don't wanna care right now I don't wanna care right now No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now
Verse 4
Tell em what it do, yell it from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof boy I don't wanna, I-I don't wanna, I-I-I don't wanna C-c-c-care right now I don't wanna, I-I don't wanna, I-I-I don't wanna C-c-c-care right, c-c-c-care right now
Album on hold, whole world on hold The crowd is like "ho!" operator's like "hold" Man, now ain't that cold? I'm just trying to talk to my homie that's up in the hole now homegirl not trying to be a ho even though she on a pole can she get a second chance? no whoa! like the opposite of gold that ain't how it's supposed to be: a butterfly for the sake of rhyming let's just say "butterflyee" the truth stings like Muhammad Ali I tell'em tell'em don't homocide me I just a little old hope with his back against the ropes fighting for his fans and, fighting for his folks but the boo's from the crowd can become so loud If I could block'em out then, I could knock'em out and dance around the ring, but until then I'll sing
[Hook] I'mma keep it cool, and I'mma do me It is what it is and that's how it's gon be Until I get there Until I get there And yeah I got flaws, I know I'm not perfect But all ups and downs, will soon be worth it When I get there When I get there
Doctore doctor please! the fame ain't painless enough that's cause you ain't famous enough you got a little game but your name ain't ringing enough he said "take 2 of these and put change in my cup" I said I wasn't poor, he gave me some more grabbed me a publicist and pointed me to the door "Out!" ouch.. I'm telling you this all from a therapist's couch Tell me about your mother? what she's all about? prescribed me an interview and then told me to bounce Damn.. geez the world is co cold I'm glad I bought these skis went right off of the bunny sloped and right into the trees went unconscious they rushed me to a concert instead of green jello, they made me chicken soup they fed me magazine covers and video shoots
[Hook] I'mma keep it cool, and I'mma do me It is what it is and that's how it's gon be Until I get there Until I get there And yeah I got flaws, I know I'm not perfect But all ups and downs, will soon be worth it When I get there When I get there
and when I finally make it, I'mma stunt so hard Evel as Knievel, I'mma jump so far way up in the atmosphere, I ain't coming back be a jerk to them jerks, yea that'll make'em hurt huh? instead of young boy in the mirror a young version of me, so I started to tear up he said "you need to cheer up, your mind need to clear up you're already here, just be yourself from here up" then he disappeared and I felt something familiar something I was taught, something I had lost if you are afraid, the fear that you gon' change some all you gotta do is just remember where you came from
[Hook] I'mma keep it cool, and I'mma do me It is what it is and that's how it's gon be Until I get there Until I get there And yeah I got flaws, I know I'm not perfect But all ups and downs, will soon be worth it When I get there When I get there
