THE SHOW GOES ON - MC JOE & THE VANILLAS Written by:BROWN/JOHNSON/JACO/BROCK/BROWER/GALLUCCI/JUDY All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on Have you ever had the feeling That you was being had Don't that sh*t 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 up on they desk Unaffected by they threats Then get busy on they See that 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'll never have to pay me Going and put your hands up When times is hard you stand up L U P the man cause The brand that the fans trust So even if they ban us They'll never slow my plans up All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on One in the air for the people 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 that don't wanna be there None for the n**gas 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 n**gas holding 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 ghetto girls and boys I'm rapping around 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 them look at me boy I hope your son All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on Have you ever had the feeling That you was being had Don't that sh*t 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 If you are my homeboy You'll never have to pay me Going and put your hands up When times is hard you stand up L U P the man cause the brand that the fans trust So even if they ban us they'll never slow my plans up All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on All right right right right right right right right right right right All right right right right right right right right right right right So no matter what 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 them till your arms tired Let them know you here That you struggling surviving that you gong persevere Ain't nobody leaving nobody going home Even if they turn the lights out the show is going on All right already The show goes on All night till the morning We drink so long Anybody ever wonder When they would see the sun go Just remember when you come up The show goes on All right already