[00:00:00] The Show Goes On - MC JOE & THE VANILLAS [00:00:02] Written by:BROWN/JOHNSON/JACO/BROCK/BROWER/GALLUCCI/JUDY [00:00:14] All right already [00:00:16] The show goes on [00:00:17] All night till the morning [00:00:20] We drink so long [00:00:21] Anybody ever wonder [00:00:23] When they would see the sun go [00:00:25] Just remember when you come up [00:00:27] The show goes on [00:00:29] Have you ever had the feeling [00:00:30] That you was being had [00:00:32] Don't that shit there make you mad [00:00:34] They treat you like a slave [00:00:36] Put chains all on your soul and [00:00:38] Put whips up on your back [00:00:40] They be lying through they teeth [00:00:41] Hope you slip up off your path [00:00:43] I don't switch up I just laugh [00:00:45] Put my kicks up on they desk [00:00:47] Unaffected by they threats [00:00:49] Then get busy on they ass [00:00:50] See that how that Chi-town made me [00:00:53] That's how my daddy raised me [00:00:54] That glittering may not be gold [00:00:56] Don't let nobody play me [00:00:58] If you are my homeboy [00:01:00] You'll never have to pay me [00:01:02] Going and put your hands up [00:01:04] When times is hard you stand up [00:01:06] L U P the man cause [00:01:07] The brand that the fans trust [00:01:09] So even if they ban us [00:01:11] They'll never slow my plans up [00:01:13] All right already [00:01:15] The show goes on [00:01:16] All night till the morning [00:01:18] We drink so long [00:01:20] Anybody ever wonder [00:01:22] When they would see the sun go [00:01:24] Just remember when you come up [00:01:26] The show goes on [00:01:27] All right already [00:01:29] The show goes on [00:01:31] All night till the morning [00:01:33] We drink so long [00:01:34] Anybody ever wonder [00:01:37] When they would see the sun go [00:01:39] Just remember when you come up [00:01:40] The show goes on [00:01:42] One in the air for the people ain't here [00:01:44] Two in the air for the father that's there [00:01:46] Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto [00:01:48] Four for the kids that don't wanna be there [00:01:50] None for the niggas tryna hold them back [00:01:51] Five in the air for the teachers not scared [00:01:53] To tell those kids that's living in the ghetto [00:01:55] That the niggas holding back that the world is theirs [00:01:57] Yeah yeah the world is yours [00:01:59] I was once that little boy [00:02:01] Terrified of the world [00:02:02] Now I'm on a world tour [00:02:04] I will give up everything [00:02:06] Even start a world war [00:02:08] For these ghetto girls and boys [00:02:10] I'm rapping around the world for [00:02:12] Africa to New York Haiti [00:02:14] Then I detour [00:02:15] Oakland out to Auckland [00:02:17] Gaza Strip to Detroit [00:02:19] Say hip-hop only destroy [00:02:21] Tell them look at me boy [00:02:23] I hope your son don't have a gun [00:02:24] And never be a D-boy [00:02:26] All right already [00:02:28] The show goes on [00:02:30] All night till the morning [00:02:32] We drink so long [00:02:33] Anybody ever wonder [00:02:35] When they would see the sun go [00:02:37] Just remember when you come up [00:02:39] The show goes on [00:02:40] All right already [00:02:43] The show goes on [00:02:44] All night till the morning [00:02:46] We drink so long [00:02:48] Anybody ever wonder [00:02:50] When they would see the sun go [00:02:52] Just remember when you come up [00:02:54] The show goes on [00:02:55] All right already [00:02:56] Already already already already already [00:02:59] Already already already already already [00:03:01] Already already already already already [00:03:10] So no matter what been through [00:03:12] No matter what you into [00:03:14] No matter what you see [00:03:15] When you look outside your window [00:03:17] Brown grass or green grass [00:03:19] Picket fence or barbed wire [00:03:21] Never ever put them down [00:03:23] You just lift your arms higher [00:03:25] Raise them till your arms tired [00:03:27] Let them know you here [00:03:28] That you struggling surviving that you gong persevere [00:03:32] Ain't nobody leaving nobody going home