this is for all the people said i wouldn't be nothing / and that was the words that i needed to hear to turn this here into something / i can't front, we trying to get the grammy / hit the road and postcard to the family / rock that show everywhere where the fans be / and i know that the haters can't stand me / excuse my french if you don't understand me / tell me what it's not, i'm a tell you what it can be / 'cause tonight if it go alright, tomorrow we gone be somewhere sandy / girl you ain't even got to wear nothing fancy / engine running, i'm ready to go / plus we already late for the show / you know who it is so act like you know / all the late nights in the studio you thought that i was up to no good good good / now i'd never do that to you but i know that maybe tiger wood's wood would / for all the lame shows / and the doors closed / broken promises, could have given up / when times are rough / we carry on / carry on and on / for all the lame shows / and the doors closed / broken promises, could have given up / when times are rough / we carry on / carry on and on / this is my fifteen seconds of fame / i promise y'all we gone be back again / got one life with a whole lot to gain / and live our dreams like we sleeping / please don't wake me let me sleep / that's when i come up with the words for the beat / let moms tell it, we already famous / pops want to know how much is it paying / nah i ain't the best, but i'm saying / when nobody else would play him / like when you walk in an empty restaurant/ and they tell you all the seats in taken/ and it's big, this history making / and it's big like a sumo's waistband / to get here took a lot of patience / and everything to fall into placement / and now the advice that you gave me sounds the clearest /
when my homie said "success is the brother of perseverance" / for all the lame shows / and the doors closed / broken promises, could have given up / when times are rough / we carry on / carry on and on / for all the lame shows / and the doors closed / broken promises, could have given up / when times are rough / we carry on / carry on and on / we move fast, they move slow / we say yes, they say no / we take it high, they stay low / they say stop, we say go / sometimes wrong, that's fa'sho / but one thing that we do know / when you ahead of the game you can turn around and tell 'em "i told so" / uh, / this is something like braille, at the tip of my fingers / if i pa** or fail, i'll still be a genius / the way i use words in my freedom of speeches / beautiful, like making babies with the senoritas / we going through life looking for reasons / feel like climbing to the top of the charts and just screaming / or maybe i'm dreaming and just never woke up / yeah, maybe i'm dreaming and just never woke up / i told my little sister, she don't need all that makeup / you never know love until you go through that bad breakup / for all the lame shows / and the doors closed / broken promises, could have given up / when times are rough / we carry on / carry on and on / for all the lame shows / and the doors closed / broken promises, could have given up / when times are rough / we carry on / carry on and on / we move fast, they move slow / we say yes, they say no / we take it high, they stay low / they say stop, we say go / sometimes wrong, that's fa'sho / but one thing that we do know / when you ahead of the game you can turn around and tell 'em "i told so" /