Biography:
Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois), better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, is a Grammy Award-winning American hip-hop artist and producer. He first became known to the mainstream hip-hop community in 2005 when he appeared on Kanye West's album Late Registration on the track "Touch the Sky." In 2006 Lupe released his debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor on Atlantic Records, and in December 2007 he released his second full length album, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool .
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Other songs:
- Solar Midnite
- Superstar
- The Show Goes On
- And He Gets The Girl
- Ankhher
- Battle Scars
- Beautiful Lasers
- City Of The Year
- Daydreamin
- Dopamine
- Free Chilly
- Gold Watch
- Im Beaming
- Its Not Design
- Kills
- Kneelin On Needles
- Never Forget You
- Ngl
- Old School Love
- Pick Up The Phone
- Till I Get There
- Tranquillo
- Words I Never Said
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Chorus:
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
Verse:
G D
Have you ever had the feeling that you was being had
Em
Dont that sh_t that make you mad
D C
They treat you like a slave, with chains all on your soul,
D C
and put whips up on your back, they be lying through they teeth
D
hope you slip up off your path
G
I dont switch up I just laugh
D
put my kicks up on they desk
Em D
unaffected by they threats than get busy on they a_s
C
see thats how that ChiTown made me
D
Thats how my daddy raised me
C D
that glittering may not be gold, dont let no body play me
G D
if you are my homeboy, you never have to pay me
Em D
Go on and put your hands up, when times are hard you stand up
C D
L-U-P the man, cause a brand that the fans trust
C D
so even if they ban us theyll never slow my plans up!
Chorus:
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
Verse:
G
One in the air for the people that aint here
D
Two in the air for the father thats there
Em
Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
D
Four for the kids who dont wanna be there
C
None for the n-ggas trying to hold them back
D
Five in the air for the teacher not scared to
C
tell those kids thats living in the ghetto that the
D
n-ggas holdin back that the World is theirs!
G D
Yeah yeah, the World is yours, I was once that little boy
Em
Terrified of the World
D
Now Im on a World tour
C C
I will give up everything, even start a world war
C D
for these ghetto girls and boys im rapping round’ the World for!
G D Em
Africa to New York, Haiti then I detour, Oakland out to Auckland
D
Gaza Strip to Detroit,
C
say hip-hop only destroy
D
tell em look at me, boy!
C D
i hope your son dont have a gun and that would be a D-boy
Chorus:
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
Verse:
G
So no matter what you been through
D
no matter what you into
Em D
no matter what you see when you look outside your window
C
brown grass or green grass
D
picket fence or barbed wire
C
Never ever put them down
D
you just lift your arms higher
G
raise em till your arms tired
D
Let em know youre there
Em D
That you struggling and survivin that you gonna persevere
C D
Yeah, aint no body leavin, no body goin home
C D
even if they turn the lights out the show is goin on!
Chorus:
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
Verse:
G D
Have you ever had the feeling that you was being had
Em
Dont that sh_t that make you mad
D C
They treat you like a slave, with chains all on your soul,
D C
and put whips up on your back, they be lying through they teeth
D
hope you slip up off your path
G
I dont switch up I just laugh
D
put my kicks up on they desk
Em D
unaffected by they threats than get busy on they a_s
C
see thats how that ChiTown made me
D
Thats how my daddy raised me
C D
that glittering may not be gold, dont let no body play me
G D
if you are my homeboy, you never have to pay me
Em D
Go on and put your hands up, when times are hard you stand up
C D
L-U-P the man, cause a brand that the fans trust
C D
so even if they ban us theyll never slow my plans up!
Chorus:
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
Verse:
G
One in the air for the people that aint here
D
Two in the air for the father thats there
Em
Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
D
Four for the kids who dont wanna be there
C
None for the n-ggas trying to hold them back
D
Five in the air for the teacher not scared to
C
tell those kids thats living in the ghetto that the
D
n-ggas holdin back that the World is theirs!
G D
Yeah yeah, the World is yours, I was once that little boy
Em
Terrified of the World
D
Now Im on a World tour
C C
I will give up everything, even start a world war
C D
for these ghetto girls and boys im rapping round’ the World for!
G D Em
Africa to New York, Haiti then I detour, Oakland out to Auckland
D
Gaza Strip to Detroit,
C
say hip-hop only destroy
D
tell em look at me, boy!
C D
i hope your son dont have a gun and that would be a D-boy
Chorus:
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
Verse:
G
So no matter what you been through
D
no matter what you into
Em D
no matter what you see when you look outside your window
C
brown grass or green grass
D
picket fence or barbed wire
C
Never ever put them down
D
you just lift your arms higher
G
raise em till your arms tired
D
Let em know youre there
Em D
That you struggling and survivin that you gonna persevere
C D
Yeah, aint no body leavin, no body goin home
C D
even if they turn the lights out the show is goin on!
Chorus:
G D
Alright, already the show goes on
Em D
alright, till the morning we dream so long
C D
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
Am
just remember when you come up
D
the show goes on!
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