Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On

[Chorus x2:] 
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! 

[Verse 1:] 
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 no body 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! 

[Chorus x2] 
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! 


[Verse 2:] 
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 thats 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 im 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 

[Chorus x2] 
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! 


[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 put them down 
you just lift your arms higher 
raise em till’ 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! 

[Chorus x2] 
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!