[Hook] Alright, already, the show goes on All night, till the morning we dream so long Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The goes on (x2)
[Verse 1] Have you ever had the feeling that you was being had? Don’t that shit there make you mad? They treat you like a slave Put 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 on they desk Unaffected by they threats, then get busy on they ass See, that's how that Chi-Town made me, that’s how my daddy raised me That glitterin’ may not be gold, don’t let nobody play me If you are my you never have to pay me Go in and put your hands up, when times is hard, you stand up L-U-P man, cuz, the brand that the fans trust So even if they ban us, they’ll never slow my plans up
[Hook] Alright, already, the show goes on All night, till the morning we dream so long Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on (x2)
[Verse 2] One in the air for the people 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 that don’t wanna be there None for the niggas tryna hold them back Five in the air for the teachers not scared To tell those kids that’s living in the ghetto That the niggas holding back that 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 would give up everything, even start a world war For these ghetto 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 me, boy I hope your son don’t have a gun and never be a d-boy
[Hook] Alright, the show goes on All night, till the morning we dream so long Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on (x2)
[Verse 3] 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 them down, you just lift your arms higher Raise ‘em till your arms tired, let ‘em know you here That you struggling, surviving, that you gon’ persevere ain’t nobody leaving, nobody going home Even if they turn the lights out, the show is going on
[Hook] Alright, already, the show goes on All night, till the morning we dream so long Anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on (x2)