[00:00:00] THE SHOW GOES ON - MC JOE & THE VANILLAS [00:00:00] Written by:BROWN/JOHNSON/JACO/BROCK/BROWER/GALLUCCI/JUDY [00:00:01] All right already [00:00:02] The show goes on [00:00:03] All night till the morning [00:00:05] We drink so long [00:00:06] Anybody ever wonder [00:00:09] When they would see the sun go [00:00:10] Just remember when you come up [00:00:12] The show goes on [00:00:14] All right already [00:00:16] The show goes on [00:00:17] All night till the morning [00:00:19] 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 sh*t there make you mad [00:00:34] They treat you like a slave [00:00:36] Put chains all on your soul and [00:00:37] Put whips up on your back [00:00:39] 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 [00:00:46] Unaffected by they threats [00:00:48] Then get busy on they [00:00:50] See that how that Chi town made me [00:00:52] 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 [00:00:59] You'll never have to pay me [00:01:01] Going and put your hands up [00:01:03] When times is hard you stand up [00:01:05] L U P the man cause [00:01:07] The brand that the fans trust [00:01:09] So even if they ban us [00:01:10] They'll never slow my plans up [00:01:12] All right already [00:01:14] The show goes on [00:01:16] All night till the morning [00:01:17] We drink so long [00:01:19] Anybody ever wonder [00:01:21] When they would see the sun go [00:01:23] Just remember when you come up [00:01:25] The show goes on [00:01:27] All right already [00:01:28] The show goes on [00:01:30] All night till the morning [00:01:32] We drink so long [00:01:34] Anybody ever wonder [00:01:36] When they would see the sun go [00:01:38] Just remember when you come up [00:01:39] The show goes on [00:01:42] One in the air for the people ain't here [00:01:43] Two in the air for the father that's there [00:01:45] Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto [00:01:47] Four for the kids that don't wanna be there [00:01:49] None for the n**gas tryna hold them back [00:01:51] Five in the air for the teachers not scared [00:01:52] To tell those kids that's living in the ghetto [00:01:54] That the n**gas holding back that the world is theirs [00:01:56] Yeah yeah the world is yours [00:01:58] I was once that little boy [00:02:00] Terrified of the world [00:02:01] Now I'm on a world tour [00:02:03] I will give up everything [00:02:05] Even start a world war [00:02:07] For these ghetto girls and boys [00:02:09] I'm rapping around the world for [00:02:10] Africa to New York Haiti [00:02:13] Then I detour [00:02:14] Oakland out to Auckland [00:02:16] Gaza Strip to Detroit [00:02:18] Say hip hop only destroy [00:02:19] Tell them look at me boy [00:02:21] I hope your son [00:02:23] All night till the morning [00:02:25] We drink so long [00:02:26] Anybody ever wonder [00:02:29] When they would see the sun go [00:02:31] Just remember when you come up [00:02:32] The show goes on [00:02:34] All right already [00:02:36] The show goes on [00:02:37] All night till the morning [00:02:39] We drink so long [00:02:41] Anybody ever wonder [00:02:43] When they would see the sun go [00:02:45] Just remember when you come up [00:02:47] The show goes on [00:02:48] Have you ever had the feeling [00:02:50] That you was being had [00:02:52] Don't that sh*t there make you mad [00:02:54] They treat you like a slave [00:02:56] Put chains all on your soul and [00:02:58] Put whips up on your back [00:02:59] They be lying through they teeth [00:03:01] Hope you slip up off your path [00:03:03] If you are my homeboy [00:03:05] You'll never have to pay me [00:03:07] Going and put your hands up [00:03:09] When times is hard you stand up [00:03:10] L U P the man cause the brand that the fans trust