We used to go out walkin' hand in hand
You told me all the big things you had planned
It wasn't long till all your dreams came true
Success put me in second place with you
You have no time to love me anymore
Since fame & fortune knocked upon our door
I spend all my evenings all alone
Success has made a failure of our home
If we could spend an evening now & then
Perhaps we'd find true happiness again
You never hold me like you used to do
It's funny what success has done for you
You have no time to love me anymore
Since fame & fortune knocked upon our door
I spend all my evenings all alone
We used to go out walkin' hand in hand you told me all the big things you had planned
It wasn't long till all your dreams came true success put me in
second place with you
You have no time to love me anymore since fame and fortune knocked upon our door
Now I spend all my evenings all alone success has made a failure of our home
[ fiddle - steel ]
If we could share an evening now and then perhaps we'd find true happiness again
You never hold me like you used to do it's funny what success has done to you
You have no time to love me...
I got these niggas breezy, don't worry about it
Let that bitch breathe!
I used to give a fuck, now I give a fuck less
What do I think of success
It sucks too much to stress
I guess I blew up quick, cause friends I grew up with
See me as a primi, but I'm not and my nut's big
I don't know what the fuss is
My career is illustrious
My rep is impeccable
I'm not to be fucked with, with shit
Let that bitch breathe!
I'm way too important to be talking extorting
Asking me for a portion is like asking me for a coffin
Broad daylight I off ya on switch
Ya not too bright, goodnight, long kiss,
Bye-bye, my reply, blah-blah
Blast burner then pass burner, to TyTy
Finish my breakfast, why?
I got an appettite for destruction and you're a small fry
Now where was I
Let that bitch breathe!
I used to give a shit, now I don't give a shit more
Truth be told, I had more fun when I was piss poor
I'm pissed off, is this what success all about
A bunch of niggas acting like bitches with big mouths
All this stress, all I got is this big house
Couple cars, I don't bring half of them shits out
All this ace of spade I drank, just to piss out
I mean I like the taste, could have saved myself six hours
How many times can I go to Mr. Chow's, Tao's, Nobu
Hold up, let me move my bowels
I'll shit on y'all niggas, OG tell these boys
Y'all ain't got shit on my nigga
I got watches I ain't seen in months
Apartment at the Trump I only slept in it once
Nigga said Hova was over, such dummies
Even if I fell I land on a bunch of money
Y'all ain't got nothing for me
Nas, let that bitch breathe!
Success, McLaren, women starin'
My villain appearance
Sacred blood of a king
In my vein ain't spillin'
Ghetto Othello, Sugar Hill, Romero
Camaro driven
I climax from paper then ask why is life worth livin'
Is it the hunt for the shit that you want
To receive is great but I lust giving
The best jewelers want to make my things
I make Jacob shit on Lorraine, just to make me a chain
Niggas mention of one love, came home to paper in hand
Ain't got to brag about the feds young man
Old cribs I sold, y'all drive by like monuments
Google Earth Nas, I got flats in other continents
Worst enemies want to be my best friends
Best friends want to be enemies, like that's what's in
But I don't give a fuck, walk inside the lion's den
Take everybody's chips, about to cash them in
Up your catalogue dog, mines worth too much
Like Mike Jack's ATV Pub, Mottola can't touch
Let this bitch breathe!
Climb the ladder, your security
Upward social mobility
Consume the lies "It's what you need"
Vicious circle of mindless greed
Where is your success gained from?
What of the lives you've shit upon?
Caught in the web you'll play the game
Here comes success, here comes success
Over my hill, over my hill
Here comes success, here comes success
Here comes my car, here comes my car
Here comes my Chinese rug, here comes my Chinese rug
Here comes success, here comes success
In the last ditch, in the last ditch
I'll think of you, I'll think of you
In the last ditch, in the last ditch
I will be true, I will be true
Sweetheart I'm telling you, sweetheart I'm telling you
Here comes the zoo, here comes the zoo
Here comes success, here comes success
Oh, hooray success, hooray success
Here comes success, hooray success
Oh oh success, oh oh success
I can't help myself, I can't help myself
I just got to got to got to, I just got to got to got to...
I can't stand it, got to got to got to
Here comes my face, here comes my face
It's plain bizarre, it's plain bizarre
Here comes my face, here comes my face
Out of the crowd, out of the crowd
Sweetheart I'm telling you, sweetheart I'm telling you
Here comes the zoo, here comes the zoo
In the last ditch, in the last ditch
Here comes success, here comes success
Here comes success, here comes success
I'm gonna do the twist, I'm gonna do the twist
I'm moved, man, I'm wiggged, oh I'm moved and I'm wigged
I'm crazy, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go crazy. And if you, maybe you'd like..
Let's blast off!
Alright! Baby, let's blast off, oh, baby let's blast off
Blast off on success, blast off on success
Oh you slay me, oh you slay me, baby, ooooh, you slay me, baby
I'm gonna do the twist, I'm gonna do the twist
I'm gonna hop like a frog, I'm gonna hop like a frog
I'm gonna go out on the street and do anything I want
I'm gonna go out on the street and do anything
Esus4 E (strummed, then) Intro:
Esus4 E B C#m7
Oooh ooooh Oooh ooooh ooh ooooh (twice)
followed by notes: e eb c# b e e f# g#
A B G#m A
The dreams and hopes of men are powered by addiction
A B G#m A
And who am I to say that this is an affliction
A B E A
When everybody gets suckered in and lives their lives like fiction
A B E
Writing their own stories of success
They say they want you for your colourful evocation
The way you turn a cliche into a sensation
But all they ever wanted was that same vibration
The one that shimmers round success
CHORUS
Esus4 E B C#m7
Success success success success
Esus4 E B C#m7
Success success success success
E A E
All you ever need... success
[Repeat intro]
You can't be happy while some one else has a fistful
They glow from TV screens healthy strong and fiscal
And everybody slaps their back while you're alone with a wristful
Jerking to the rhythm of success
[Chorus]
Esus4 022200
Yeah here comes success over my hill here comes success here comes my car
(Here comes my car) Here comes my Chinese rug (here comes my Chinese rug)
Here comes success (here comes success) here it comes
In my last ditch (in my last ditch) I'll think of you (I'll think of you)
In my last ditch (in my last ditch) I will be true (I will be true)
Sweetheart I'm telling you (sweetheart I'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (here comes the zoo)
Here comes success (here comes success) hooray success (hooray success)
(Oh-oh success, hooray success) oh-oh success (oh-oh success)
I can't help myself (I can't help myself)
I just gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta oh I can't stand it
I need success
Here comes my face (here comes my face) it's plain bizarre (it's plain bizarre)
Here comes my face (here comes my face) out of the crowd (out of the crowd)
Sweetheart I'm telling you (sweetheart I'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (here comes the zoo)
Baby let's blast off (baby let's blast off)
We blast off for success (we blast off for success)
I'm gonna crash my car (I'm gonna crash my car)
I'm gonna wear a dress (I'm gonna wear a dress)
Oh you slaying me baby (oh you slaying me baby)
We're gonna do the twist (we're gonna do the twist)
We're gonna hop like a frog (we're gonna hop like a frog)
Uh 2007 Super Junior bring it on!
All guys should come with us
Show to us
So we answer the call never back down
Onjena guretdushi jigumchorom
Yoljonghanaro bothyo on nal jikhyojwo
Hey yo
Nega ganda jigumkkod gidaryotdon nal
Hessari nal bichuo
Gochinsum nebethgetjiman
1 step 2 step
Gurumwie garyojin
Hedbichul chaja girul balghyojwo
Tojilduthan ne shimjangi
Ttwio ssawo igyo
Ssurojiji anha
Hoesegbit bildingsuphul
Dallinun naui yonghonun
Garyojin odumsoge
Mudhyojin bichul chajaso
Chagaun bulbichul balghyojul
Igirum ttara
Nan norul ttara
Onjen gurewatdud
Pogihaji anha
Nan jongbande
Majimag nege gihoel jwo
Hwaryohan neon gadughan gorie
Nega sarawatdon shigandul
Gidaryoyo majimag gunare
Get up get up get to night oh
Get up get up get in night
Guredo ajig midgophun sesangi
Narul kkumkkuge hangoya
Maumsoge sumgyodun nal chaja
Jigumboda modjige nan usojultheni
Yoljong gu hanaro
Hollo bothyowatdon shigan
Hessari nal bichuo
Gochin sum nebethgetjiman
1 step 2 step
Gurumwie garyojin
Hedbichul chaja
Girul balghyojwo
Tojilduthan ne shimjangi
Ttwio ssawo
Igyo ssurojiji anha
Tteron jujo angodo shiphjiman
Maum dulgod obnun najiman
Narul ikkurojun kkumi isso
Jolmun ne gasumul
Midojudon irumi isso
Maumsoge sumgyodun nal chaja
Jigumboda modjige na usojultheni
Sesangsoge jongdabun obso
Uiji hanaro
Midummanuro
You'd better so fast it
Yeah
This joint right here is goin out to everybody gettin money
I mean the real CREAM
All up and down the East and West coast
Check it *echoes*
Chorus: repeat 2X
Hustlin is the key to success
Money is the key to sex
The life is gettin cash, drinkin Mo', gettin blessed
The games people play
The names people slay
It's just another ordinary day
One's for the cash, two's for every blunt's ash
Three's for all the 40 brews goin to cruise the bowel
Four's for the drugs, sex, and power
I be the top dolla scala, rockin gold collars
While you tryin to sip the juice, I'm takin swallows
Step into my zone and get blown, internationally known
Yeah, in case you haven't heard the rep
Have an appetite for beef and get, hand fed led
Rapid-fire echoes through your, vicinity
Why you messin with this nigga from Trinity
For every shell that fell, there's a story to tell
But it's a fine line between grapevines and pines
Knahmean There's no room for snitches and loud bitches
But it's always room for riches and deep ditches
That's how it be in this everlasting game
Declaring war on cocks, and leavin chumps slain
So maintain, and put the frontin to a rest
Or today'll be the grand openin of your chest
Success, triple beam, knahmean
Dolla dolla bill
Chorus
The streets are full of vengeance, and it's expensive
If you don't organize your words right in your sentence
Twelve gauge holes take souls and lives are lost
Who said an arm and a leg was a high cost to toss
Things are done different, in my zip code
Hollow tips implode, dum-dums explode
Now your crew is screamin like they see demons when I reload
You can't comprehend, act like you want it for clarity
I'm pushin wigs, handin out jigs like charity
You best to get your groove on, or get moved on
Or play the hot steppa, and die with your shoes on
I collects ass and cash
While my crew consumes liquor and hash, and keep the stash
Whether, hustlin or dustin we get busy with ours
T.S., T.A.T., respect for miles
The Bronx is the turf, South is the area
Bring ten, bring twenty, the more guns the merrier
Nobody's bad as me, no cops nabbin me
Front if you dare and I'll change your whole anatomy
For real... uh!
Chorus (repeat to fade)
Are you ready
Are you ready
Are you ready
If you're wantin' some action
I've got something for you
A funky style with attraction
A kinda life with a different attitude
You have expensive possessions
Your wildest dreams they all come true
You are the main attraction
People adore the image of you
You're driving fancy cars
And wearin' fancy things
Drippin' with diamonds and gold (the real thing)
Is it much too much
Or is it much too fast
Tell me are you ready
Really really ready for
Success
It's an attitude
Livin' the lifestyle is getting real buckwild
Success
Hey if you want it
You've just got to let go
Come and get into it
Success
Can you handle the limelight
'cause the press machine
will snap your face and eat your mind too
you need more than a doctor
to help you through the good the bad and the blues
it's a chain reaction
a dimension where you're pumpin' and stompin' the tunes
it may not be everlastin'
but my advice is try success
'cause it might be right for you
You're driving fancy cars
And wearin' fancy things
Drippin' with diamonds and gold (the real thing)
Is it much too much
Or is it much too fast
Tell me are you ready
Really really ready for
Success
It's an attitude
Livin' the lifestyle is getting real buckwild
Success
If you want it
You've just got to let go
Come and get into it
Success
(success) If you want it
(success) If you need it
(success) Come and get it
(success) Oh oh oh
Can you handle bright lights
Parties every Friday night
Limousines club scenes money that keeps rollin' in
Cameras at every block
Gossip that will never stop
That's the lifestyle of success
Tell me tell me tell me
Are you ready tell me tell me
Tell me tell me tell me
(Success) Are you with it tell me tell me
Tell me tell me tell me (success)
Get into it tell me tell me
Tell me tell me tell me (success)
Tell me tell me tell me
Tell me tell me tell me are you ready
[AD LIB TO FADE]
[Sample: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - If You Want Me]
Are you really here or am I dreaming
I can't tell dreams from truth
For it's been so long since I have seen you
I can hardly remember your face anymore
Yeah, is that really you success
I know you're close...
But I haven't seen you in so fucking long man, you know
I'm a find you though, I'm gonna find you
Yeah, success, is that you around the corner
I've been on your trail, now they say it warmer warmer
It's been a long time since I seen you too
Probably since my last wrestling match in high-school
And after that you left me, packed up and bounce with lady luck
Then shit got messy, grades started slippin' and the drugs kicked in
E pills, coke, percs, colanapins
Either high or in a bad mood, pissed off teenager covered in tattoos
Grade A fuck-up, simple as that
I'm surprised my two parents didn't turn their back
But they never gave up on me, I love 'em for that
And I promise I'm a pay it all back with these raps
I know my bail was high but mom and dad I'm a pay back
Every penny or I'll try, let it rot
[Sample: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - If You Want Me]
Are you really here or am I dreaming
I can't tell dreams from truth
For it's been so long since I have seen you
I can hardly remember your face anymore
Yeah, success, is that you?
People tell me that you're nearby and I'm hopin' that it's true
Cause lately you haven't made an appearance in my life
Just a spot at the bottom and a lot of long nights
Court fees, shity jobs, bad luck, drug problems
Or have a non-religious kid looking to God
Swear to God I been through a lot of shit on this path
I'm not here to brag about it but no one can change the past
I put together raps tryna make myself a stag with it
I've put my heart, soul, everything I had in this
Slice my wrists and I bleed for this rappin' shit
How could you motherfuckers say I'm not passionate?
This is all I've ever loved, do it till the death of me
Proven that I'm worthy, I don't care what they expect from me
And I'll do it till there's not a breath left in me
Tryna make it in this crazy world successfully
Ah, tryna make it in this crazy world successfully
Tryna make it in this crazy world successfully
Tryna make it in this crazy world successfully
Yeah
So many people tell me success was up for the taking
But I can't tell if it's real or in my imagination
Spitted so sick that I need a vaccination
But I'm still underrated as fuck
Any occasion that I had to rise to, I did
But they still consider me a gimmick strictly just because of where I live
Dope when I rap I flow, it's my path to blow
This ain't the motherfuckin' white rapper show
Sharpin' skills like katanas in the arms of a ninja
Pure bred with the heart of a winner
Put my all in this shit, if I fall or I trip
I'm just gettin' back up, never callin' it quits
So hard when I spit, you need armor for this
Dusk till dawn till I'm gone I'm a spit
Do it till I got nothin' left
Word to my very last breath I'm a find my success
Dreams of long life, What safety can you find?
See the great unknown
that shape for miles
Good eye
I'm a good guy
Dreams of long life
What safety can you find?
If the sea will start strong
Maybe we had
Maybe we had to fly
Was a good try
I'm a good guy
As high as the day
I read the papers
Before crime would pay
I learned to bury most things
I have succeeded
I won't compete for long
I'm not not supposed to show you
I've got two secrets
But I only told you one
Dreams of long life
What safety can you buy?
If the sea will start strong
Maybe we had
Maybe we had to fly
Somebody make me say no, no, no
Somebody make me say no, no, no
Somebody make me say no, no, no
Somebody make me say no, no, no
I have succeeded
I won't compete for long
I'm not not supposed to show you
I've got two secrets
But I only told you one
I'm not not supposed to show you
I'm not not supposed to
I'm not not supposed to show you
Here comes success
Here comes success
Over my hill
Over my hill
Here comes success
Here comes success
Here comes my car
Here comes my car
Here comes my Chinese rug
Here comes my Chinese rug
Here comes success
Here comes success
Now in the last years, in the last years
I think of you, I think of you
Now in the last years, in the last years
I will be true, I will be true
Sweetheart, I?m tellin' you
Sweetheart, I?m tellin' you
Here comes the zoo
Here comes the zoo
Here comes success
Here comes success
Hooray, success
Hooray, success
Oh, oh, success
Oh, oh, success
I can?t help myself
I can?t help myself
I got the shadow lamp
I got the shadow lamp
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Here comes my fames
Here comes my fames
It?s plain bizarre
It?s plain bizarre
Here comes my face
Here comes our face
Out of the cloud
Out of the cloud
Sweetheart, I?m tellin' you
Sweetheart, I?m tellin' you
Here comes the zoo
Here comes the zoo
In the last itch
In the last itch
Well, here comes success
Here comes success
Here comes success
Here comes success
I got to do the twist
I got to do the twist
I wanna jump up and down
I wanna jump up and down
Oh yeah
Success..
[Mr. Lif]
This is rock bottom y'all, I never expected it
In order to be businesslike you must meet the prerequisite
Leave your culture at home, smile, don't be too proud, too wild
You may suffer, just don't cry out loud
This notion of proffesionalism is like an exorcism
Forced to give your life away while you're earnin' a livin'
These thoughts had stopped me from rejoinin' the work force
but now the situation I'm in, just seems to hurt more
Maybe it wont be bad, maybe it'll be good
I could use a little structure in my life, maybe I should
Take my suit and tie out of the closet
Try shinin' my shoes and brush the fuckin' dust off of my wallet
Let's consider the prospects, make a couple phone calls
Now so many interviews you know I got next week
I'm strictly goin'from the bottom to the peak
I'm ready focused and determined to get back on my feet
[Chorus]
[Aesop Rock]
Daddy had a name tag that said, "Busy Working"
Mommy had a milk carton that said, "Missing Person"
John had a new baseball glove, with nobody to learn with
That's oil and water trying to mix on the same surface
[Mr. Lif]
I got a job at a business place I chose not to name
Ask me how did I achieve this so quick? Yes you may
Back when I was compiled a stunning resume
I didn't value way back then, but boy it helped today
I'm pushin' every single thought of rebellin' away
I'm workin' real hard, and my pockets are swellin', and hey
Can you believe I met the girl of my dreams, I swear she's meant for me
We've been together over 2 years, goin' on 3
We married on our 4th anniversary
Bought a house and turned a room into a nursery
For the bouncin' baby that we're expecting in June
I sat in that delivery room from noon, to noon
24 hours of labour then the nurse asked me his title for the paper
You know, so the government can chase ya'
First name: John, Last name: Insignificant
I'm smiling like a proud dad; I got the birth certificate
Go to the house and here's my
and I looked around and nothing's good enough for her or him
So my 8 hour days became 9; 9 slid up to 10; a subtle slip up to 11 and then
And after a 12 hour day, I too little energy to say 'I love you' to my baby
Or play daddy to J, and I thought this was the way
o be a husband and a father
I guess I could've looked in her eyes, and seen I lost her
But it wasn't my fault, I'm workin' hard, it couldn't be
I've been successfully existing as a member of this family
I was so convinced the household had to always be complete
I didn't realize the only thing that's missing is me
[Chorus]
[Mr. Lif]
There was never any talk of divorce
I can't believe how focused I was in the face of such a huge potential loss
Thought I signed a greivance with the boss
In fact, I was mad at my wife, as if she's trying to knock me off course
But I still visited the florist, to get her flowers
(When the last time I did this?) Hmm.. not since our wedding shower
I got home and I was greeted by the fact we'd been deleted
I was someone that my wife and child thought they no longer needed
And before I could say, 'Where's John?'
I looked down and he was clingin' to her arm
I realized-ed that I'm wrong
I blacked out and by the time I came to, they were gone
But somehow I sat and shook my head, and then I carried on
And I still completed 3 weeks of work, before my breakdown
The ambulances came and I got medicine to take now
And it's hard to get a job when you been treated and released
So both my relationship and my career had deceased
It took years to put myself together, peice by peice
And thank God I found a woman that's propitiate with me
And I'll never let this happen again, it's not to be
I'm ready focused and determined to get back on my feet
[Aesop Rock]
Daddy had a name tag that said, "Busy Working"
Mommy had a milk carton that said, "Missing Person"
John had a new baseball glove, with nobody to learn with
if a man is centered upon himself the smallest risk is too great for him
success and failure can destroy him but if he¡¯s centered on true love
no risk is too great - success is guaranteed already
the union of creator and creature beside which all else is meaningless
the lurid melodrama played itself out in a luxury motel room by the sea
said my wife as i sunk my teeth in her brown thigh,
¡°you were an egg just like me.¡±
Give it to me
[Hook]
I don't wanna be livin' this way
I'd rather be set makin' money, every day hey
Cause success is the way of life
I don't wanna be livin' this way
I'd rather be set makin' money, every day hey
Cause success is the way of life
[Verse 1]
Get the vest out cause it's stressed out
And my tech's out, makin' people scream
Seen niggas without two head count doin' push ups
I'm doin' sit ups, we stay like healthy
Cause niggas on my block are tryin' daily to out weigh me
Say we Jesus, help us God, time for harm
I'm gettin' number from the greasin' off in my palm
But I want some harder armor
Change my ways and ways I praise, amazing grace
How sweet the sound but now I'm catchin' evil
They think I'm sequel, ya see them people
Behind the bush, they wanna cook us
Four more of them pussies on my pushin'
Against the breeze just like a kite
You got that right, no marchin' with me with cho' butter knife
This fight, don't need to make an effort, promise
Cause it's dark without my lights and they ain't gotta compass
Speed bumps got us slowed, swervin' pot holes
Up they nose, what is man that gains the world and lose his soul
[Hook]
[Verse 2]
I do a movie with a doobie and some brothers
Then go back to mothers
Have some sour cream smothered and buttered, no onion
I chief on the steps, makin' peace with myself
Can't leave my cheese on the shelf
I know what's gonna be there, believe this
I can see or see this, families and orthopedics
Through the all valley seasons
Through earth, wind, and fires
But still pimps and liars got my family zoned and took us on higher
The scale is off the rim, somebody stole ya meal
How was I to tell, you was chokin high shit
A lot of time was wasted, on hoes in different places
I made the first step away like rehabilitation
I learned something so serious
Life is a game and when you play it's one time period
A lot of my niggas be playin' foul ball
Expect that tech when y'all ass get that last call
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
Been up for days cause where I stays, I can't blaze
A nap and it's beginning to weigh heavy on my thinkin' cap
I'm gettin' higher but shit I'm tired
I'm bout to pass out, slowly and surely off the wire
Relyin' on the starin' image of pimp shit
Nothin' but a word I see is pity
Now that the rain is gone I maintain killin' prone
Protection if you restin' in my zone
They in my spot, my home see
They wanna take a load off my cot when you ain't makin' up ya own bed
Said Fred, that's the wrong leg snapper
You ain't gotta go home but I ain't cha' got damn Jed Clampett
But it's two misses that I miss in my direction
My own niggas in Memphis is cuttin' up my intersection
I did those and shattered lives and the lost souls
Save a prayer for them there table dancin' hoes
[Hook]
This is not the way it's
Supposed to be
Spend my day in fear of all
It sets me free
I beg your pardon
For what I do and say
I can hold myself to blame
But the sure remains the same
Will success fail me?
Will it make me free?
What they tell me I should want?
Is it what I need?
Hey Mom, Hey Dad
The story went
Round the burning wheels of faith
It pays the rent
Hey sister, hey brother
I had to choose
Choose between the win and lose
But what's the use?
Will success fail me?
Will it make me free?
What they tell me I should want?
Is it what I need?
Come March come April
Come may and June
Let the pounding seconds go
There's nothing I can do
Will success fail me?
Will it make me free?
What they tell me I should want?
Is it what I need? (x 2)
Is there something I can do?
[TATEH]
I promised you America
And little one, we're there.
[IMMIGRANTS, LITTLE GIRL]
America!
[TATEH]
Out feet are on the solid ground
And hope is in the air!
[IMMIGRANTS, LITTLE GIRL]
America!
[TATEH]
You'll soon be eating apple pie
From off a china plate.
Pretty dresses, pretty dolls,
Just wait!
For shining in your Tateh's eye
And just beyond this gate-
[ALL]
America!
[TATEH]
Here in America
Anyone at all can succeed.
[IMMIGRANTS]
America! Here in America!
[TATEH]
Do what you do,
And the world will come to you
Guranteed!
[IMMIGRANTS]
America! Here in America!
[TATEH]
I may be just a maker of art,
But here you can start with less
And make a success!
[TATEH]
Step right up and have a silhouette made by
a real artist! With ordinary paper, a pair of scissors
and some glue I will give you a thing of such
beauty! A life-like portrait of someone you love.
Silhouettes of your favorite celebrity.
Evelyn Nesbit. Hey look!
She's on her Vaudeville stage.
harry Houdini. He practically escapes
From the page.
Only a nickel.
Don't walk away!
Someday these will impress
When I'm a success!
[IMMIGRANTS (2 groups)]
America, America.
[TATEH]
Look at the silhouettes
Here in the tenements,
Bent over sewing
Or dancing or arguing
Thouands of silhouettes,
Thousands of stories to tell.
Look at them, little one,
Such opportunity!
Right on the corner of
Orchard and Rivington.
We'll make our silhouettes,
Think how they'll sell.
We'll join the parade
or Americans all doing well!
[IMMGRANTS]
Success!
Success!
[MORGAN]
I'm J.P. Morgan my friends
The wealthiest man on this earth!
[IMMIGRANTS]
Success!
[MORGAN]
You immigrants, look up to me
And you'll see what money is worth!
[IMMIGRANTS]
Success!
[MORGAN]
One day your immigrant sweat
Might get you the whole U.S.!
[HOUDINI]
And if you're trapped
And failure seems imminent,
Think of Houdini,
That fabulous immigrant!
Break those chains with all you possess!
[MORGAN, IMMIGRANTS]
This is America!
This is the land of success!
[SAME & TATEH]
Success!
[EMMA GOLDMAN]
The angry, fetid tenements of the Lower East Side were
worse than anything Tateh and his wife suffered in Latvia.
The Little Girl was often sick now.
Tateh wrapped her in his prayer shawl.
What rabbi would disapprove?
[IMMIGRANTS]
America!
[TATEH]
Look at my daughter, God.
Why have you brought us here?
How can I feed her or clothe
Or protect her here?
Where's the America
We were supposed to get?
Was it a silhouette?
hey, mister,
Here in America
Anything you want, you can be!
Sucker, step up,
And I'll cut you out your own guratee!
Come see the artist!
Big shot, oh yes!
red, white and blue!
Hoorau and God bless!
I'm a success!
I'm a success!
Success!
Success!
[HOUDINI]
And if you're trapped
And failure seems imminent,
Think of Houdini,
That fabulous immigrant!
Break those chains with all you possess!
[TATEH]
I promised you America,
And little one...
We will find it.
-P. Barrett-
Once more, the guerilla a talk
And you know when me talk me talk from the heart
'Cause a so me a do it from the start
Otherwise I can't, watch this
Chorus:
Said every man haffi pay them dues
And every man haffi pay them tax
'Cause that's where success is at
And when you climb on the ladder
And you want reach the top
More time you end up inna stumbling block
A said serious something
A no joke I a crack
This is a chronological fact
Me no only want you dance
Me no only want you rock
Me want you listen what Rebel a chat
Say, a no no if a no no but a the only way out
You haffi work for the food what fi get inna you mouth
Step up up up up up in the right route
Prepare yourself Lord fi deal with the drought
'Cause it come from all angle, come from all 'bout
If a no the east, man a the west
If a no the north or south
But you fi galang galang without doubt
Chorus
'Cause every successful man will tell you say
A no today them a try, neither yesterday
But a the substance of faith make them getaway
And now a honor and glory fi see where them deh
So no give up the race when you inna the middle
Just remember a God a pilot you
'Cause no man mi know weh no go through struggle
But you must remember, good is over evil
Chorus
'Cause struggle it no new, long time it a go on
Long, long, long, long, long, long before I born
You haffi go through burry burry thistle and thorn
But after a storm there must be a calm
Today I see and yesterday me saw
Success is always governed by law
So if you want progress without problems
Just look for the laws and try apply them
Chorus
Nuff want go to heaven yet no want die
Them no want grow feather, yet them want fly
Them no want cut the tree, no want it fi spread
No want bus sweat, but want nyam the most bread
Can't work, can't work, that's why things so red
Unno fi you stop point the finger and do little instead
Chorus
So hold tight, steadfast, God alone can't bear the cross
Progress no cheap you must pay the cost
You haffi go through ticki ticki before the green grass
Chorus
The height that great men reach and kept
It never just come immediate
A true them work hard, a true them sweat
Jah Jah guide them through the valley of
the shadow of death
Is not a quiz you know what it is
Rebel just a talk figurative
Is just the life, weh we a live
We haffi turn 'roun the negs make them turn positive
Chorus
Say, a no no if a no no but a the only way out
You hatfi work for the food what fi get inna you mouth
Step up up up up up in the right route
Prepare yourself Lord fi deal with the drought
'Cause it come from all angle, come from all 'bout
If a no the east, man a the west
If a no the north or south
But you fi galang galang without doubt
I'm your God I've just arrived
A beatbox Jesus dancing jive
Venus Mars and Saturn five
A billion TV stars alive
Champagne champagne and model girls
Credit cards let's buy the world
Visa club and Gold Am X
Caroline and Princess Steph
Chorus:
Sex fun success
Sex fun success
Luxury - give it me
Nothing more and nothing less
Than success
Dallas dollars limousines
Debutantes and dynasty
Here's a dream that money buys
Late to bed and late to rise
Chorus
Luxury - give it me
- Get it, I got it
Fantasy and ecstasy
- Get it, I got it
Grab a piece of that golden fleece
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
On the beach with the nouveau riche
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
On the beach with a Rolls Royce each
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Yeah-Yeah-Yeah
Success
Roll X Rolls Royce Romeo
Say hello to Savile Row
Take a cheque from Coutts & Co.
Limousines - all systems go
Chorus x 2
Here comes success (here comes success)
Over my hill (over my hill)
Here comes success (here comes success)
Here comes my car (here comes my car)
Here comes my chinese rug (here comes my chinese rug)
Here comes success (here comes success)
In the last ditch (in the last ditch)
I'll think of you (I'll think of you)
In the last ditch (in the last ditch)
I will be true (I will be true)
Sweetheart, I'm telling you (sweetheart, I'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (here comes the zoo)
Here comes success (here comes success)
Oh, hurray success (hurray success)
Here comes success
Hurray success
Oh, oh success (oh, oh success)
Can't help myself ( I can't help myself)
I got to...got to...got to.....(got to...got to...)
I can't stand it (got to...got to...got to.......)
Here comes my face (here comes my face)
It's plain bizarre (it's plain bizarre)
Here comes my face (here comes my face)
Out of the crowd (out of the crowd)
Sweetheart, I'm telling you (sweetheart, I'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (here comes the zoo)
In the last ditch (in the last ditch)
Here comes success (here comes success)
Here comes success (here comes success)
I'm gonna do the twist (I'm gonna do the twist)
Oh, I'm moved and I'm wiggged (ooo ooo, I'm wigged)
I'm crazy. I'm gonna, I'm gonna go crazy. (oh baby I like it!)
Let's blast off!
Alright, baby, let's blast off (oh, baby let's blast off)
Blast off on success (blast off on success)
Oh, you slay me (oh, you slay me, baby, ooo)(oh, you slay me, baby)
I'm gonna do the twist (I'm gonna do the twist)
I'm gonna hop like a frog (I'm gonna hop like a frog)
I'm gonna go out on the street and do anything I want (I'm gonna
go out on the street and do anything)
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit!
