The Show Goes On

Album: Lasers (2010)
Charted: 49 9
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  • La-ser

    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!
    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!

    Have you ever had the feeling
    That you was being had
    Don't that shit that make you mad
    They treat you like a slave
    With chains all on your soul
    And put whips up on your back
    They be lying through they teeth
    Hope you slip up off your path
    I don't switch up I just laugh
    Put my kicks up on they desk
    Unaffected by they threats
    Than get busy on they ass
    See that's how that Chi-Town made me
    That's how my daddy raised me
    That glittering may not be gold
    Don't let nobody play me
    If you are my homeboy
    You never have to pay me
    Go on and put your hands up
    When times are hard you stand up
    L-U-P the man, 'cause a brand that the fans trust
    So even if they ban us
    They'll never slow my plans up!

    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!
    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!

    One in the air for the people that ain't here
    Two in the air for the father that's there
    Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
    Four for the kids who don't wanna be there
    None for the niggas trying to hold them back
    Five in the air for the teacher not scared
    to tell those kids that's living in the ghetto
    That the niggas holdin' back that the world is theirs!
    Yeah yeah, the world is yours
    I was once that little boy
    Terrified of the world
    Now I'm on a world tour
    I will give up everything
    Even start a world war
    For these ghettos girls and boys I'm rapping round' the world for!
    Africa to New York
    Haiti then I detour
    Oakland out to Auckland
    Gaza Strip to Detroit
    Say hip-hop only destroy
    Tell em' look at me, boy!
    I hope your son don't have a gun and never be a D-boy

    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!
    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!

    So no matter what you been through
    No matter what you into
    No matter what you see
    when you look outside your window
    Brown grass or green grass
    Picket fence or barbed wire
    Never ever put them down
    You just lift your arms higher
    Raise 'em 'til your arms tired
    Let em' know you're there
    That you struggling and survivin'
    That you gonna persevere yeah
    Ain't no body leavin'
    No body goin' home
    Even if they turn the lights out the show is goin' on!

    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on!
    Alright, already the show goes on
    All night, till the morning we dream so long
    Anybody ever wonder
    When they would see the sun up
    Just remember when you come up
    The show goes on! Writer/s: DANIEL JOHNSON, DANN GALLUCCI, DUSTIN BOWER, ERIC JUDY, ISAAC BROCK, JONATHAN BROWN, WASALU JACO
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • David from Adelaide, AustraliaI think Smile Back by Mac Miller, a little bit the beat is copied from this song.
  • Joe from Columbia, ScGreat, great inspirational song
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