Oh fame, they've taken everything and twisted it
Oh fame they say
You never could have resisted it
What's in a name
And everybody's jaded by fame
Oh fame again
The press has gone and made another mess of it
Oh just because they got
So much invested in it
But they say you're to blame it's your own fault
'Cos you got mixed up in fame
Oh no don't believe all that old Andy Warhol guff
It takes a lot more than 10 or 15 minutes
That's just not enough
To qualify you for
Fame, you went beyond the boundries of sanity
And every day you defy
All the laws of gravity
You ain't got no shame
'Cos you're just addicted to fame
Oh no don't you buy none of that old Andy Warhol stuff
It takes a lot more than 10 or 15 minutes
That's just not enough
To qualify you for
Fame, they're already setting up your own Watergate
Oh fame, that stalker out there is just filled with hate
You'll never be the same
'Cos everyone's corrupted by fame
Oh fame, they took away all my humanity
Oh fame got to fight
Every second of the day for my dignity
It's a spectator's game
And there ain't nothing fair about fame
Oh fame, oh fame
Oh fame say it again, fame
====
(David Bowie/John Lennon/Carlos Alomar)
Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane
Fame
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, "Nien! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to, crime
Fame
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really, really?
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool
Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on pain
Fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame
Fame
What's your name?
(whispered)
And my niggas say
We want the FAME
C'mon c'mon
[Chorus]
One thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
Nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
The one thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
It's been nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
[Verse 1: Tupac]
Though we exist and breathe
Some believe currency comes to g's
Stresses half the ghetto
With success comes greed [echo]
They got me hot
When they shot me
Plotted
My revenge
To increase my ends
Enemies gettin dropped
Win or lose
Red or blue
We must all stay true
Play the game nigga
Never let the game play you
And for the fame [echo]
Niggas change fast [echo]
That's a shame [echo]
What's the game
Lost souls
Who controls our brain?
Who can I blame? [echo]
The world seems strange at times
Somewhat insane [echo]
I'm hoping we can change with time
I'm living blinded [echo]
Searching for a ?? curse
I know death follows me
But I murder him first
And worse yet
With each breathe
Steps I take
Breathless
Is there a cure for a hustler with a death wish?
Cigar ashes
Coaster
Crystal glasses
We mash on them jealous bastards
With a ski mask
I'm the first one to warn them
Blast it
Wrapped in plastic
Bullshitting got his ass hit (outlaws)
Ain't nothing left now
Treated like a stepchild
Was not for me
Nothing but busters and bitches (fuck em all)
Be rocking beats
Fake in fame
[Verse 2:]
Block run and shoot slugs
We throw them back like hardballs
Without the gloves
No love for these fake desperados
And thugs I bleed to envy
Smoke and blow out they blunts
Sipping Henney
Drunk nights
And hot days
Cocking my heat
Shooting it sideways
A wife on the run
Full of common blunts
Unconditionally married
To my gun
Fulfillin' my destiny
On knees
And ones desires
Be pulling all my cabbage
Like priors
Stuck in the trance
Searching for something higher
Fortune and fame
[Chorus]
One thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
Nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame (FAME)
The one thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
It's been nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
[Verse 3:]
Searching for fortune and fame
Lost in the rain
A lose of the game
With life the cost of the game
We forcing the change
Mother fuck flossing the chain [echo]
All the blame
Belongs to the part of the brain [echo]
That we never use nigga
Plus my heart is in pain [echo]
And if I ever lose homey
Bet I'm at it again [echo]
Outlaws don't die
So united we stand [echo]
And if family 'come a foe
All the fortune and fame [echo]
[Verse 4: Napoleon]
As I walk up in the crib
Laid to rest me head
Say some rhymes to angels
Hope they bless my bed
Hope they bless me the righteous way
Got a homie locked down
Outta town
I sent him a kite today
Man that hate in your heart
Your gotta cleanse it dog
Praying for my downfall
And I can sense it dog
I was passed down the street fame
Like glocks clocked
And keep aim
Was raised up with a clock box
And I ran with the local street gang
They say the light is faded
But still shine in the dark
You can easy been a man
But you is a boy in your heart
And that's some game that I got
From generation of game
In the road of life dog
We need to switch up lanes
Think about it
[Chorus]
One thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
Nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame (FAME)
The one thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
It's been nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
[Verse 5:]
I can't complain
I've seen my fair share of the fame
It wont change me
Now I've got this piece of change
I feel strange
I got so use to the hood
That when I finally got out
At first it ain't feel good
I was just a baby
Still retarded from slavery
When we struggle to shovel shit
Ain't nobody saved me
Ghetto ain't made me
I made myself
Poverty raised me
Thinking ain't no help
I pray for my health
My mind
And my family too
State of myself
My grind
And my family crew
Where one hand watches the other
No we ain't blood
But we still real brothers
The struggle is real
Nothing can steal
What we build
And that remains the same
'Till that day we killed
And that's real
Life that I was aimed to be
Love by my family tree
That's fame to me
How about it
[Chorus]
One thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
Nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
The one thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
Nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
And my niggas say
We want the FAAAAME
C'mon c'mon
[Chorus]
One thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
Nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
The one thing we all adore
Something worth dying for
It's been nothing but pain
Stuck in this game
Searching for fortune and fame
[Verse 1: 2Pac]
Though we exist and breathe some believe currency comes to g's
Stresses after battle with success comes greed (echo)
They got me hot When they shot me
Plotted my revenge
To increase my ends
Enemies gettin dropped
Win or lose
Red or blue
We must all stay true
Play the game nigga
Never let the game play you
And for the fame
Niggas change fast
That's a shame
What's the game
Lost souls
Who controls our brain?
Who can I blame?
The world seems strange at times
Somewhat insane
I'm hoping we can change with time
I'm living blinded
Searching for refinement
Curse, I know death follows me
But I murder him first
And worse yet
With each breathe
Steps I take
Breathless
Is there a cure for a hustler with a death wish?
Cigar ashes
Coaster
Crystal glasses
We mash on them jealous bastards
With a ski mask
I'm the first one to warn them
Blast it
Wrapped in plastic
Bullshitting got his ass hit (outlaws)
Ain't nothing left now
Treated like a stepchild
Was not for me
Nothing but busters and bitches (fuck em all)
Be rocking beats
Fake in fame
[Verse 2: Kadafi]
Block run and shoot slugs
We throw them back like hardballs
Without the gloves
No love for these fake desperados
And thugs I bleed to envy
Smoke and blow out they blunts
Sipping Henney
Drunk nights
And hot days
Cocking my heat shooting it sideways
A wife on the run
Full of common blunts
Unconditionally married
To my gun
Fulfillin' my destiny
On knees
And ones desires
Be pulling all my cabbage like priors
Stuck in the trance searching for something higher
Fortune and fame
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Kastro]
Searching for fortune and fame
Lost in the rain
A lose of the game
With life the cost of the game
We forcing the change
Mother fuck flossing the chain (echo)
All the blame
Belongs to the part of the brain (echo)
That we never use nigga
Plus my heart is in pain (echo)
And if I ever lose homey
Bet I'm at it again (echo)
Outlaws don't die
So united we stand (echo)
And if family come before
All the fortune and fame (echo)
[Verse 4: Napoleon]
As I walk up in the crib
Laid to rest me head
Say some rhymes to angels
Hope they bless my bed
Hope they bless me the righteous way
Got a homie locked down
Outta town
I sent him a kite today
Man that hate in your heart you gotta cleanse it dog
Praying for my downfall and I can sense it dog
I was passed down the street fame
Like glocks clocked and keep aim
Was raised up with a clock box
And I ran with the local street gang
They say the light is faded
But still shine in the dark
You can easy been a man
But you is a boy in your heart
And that's some game that I got
From generation of game
In the road of life dog
We need to switch up lanes
Think about it
[Chorus]
[Verse 5: Young Noble]
I can't complain
I've seen my fair share of the fame
It wont change me
Now I've got this piece of change
I feel strange I got so use to the hood
That when I finally got out at first it ain't feel good
I was just a baby still retarded from slavery
When we struggle to shovel shit ain't nobody saved me
Ghetto ain't made me I made myself
Poverty raised me thinking ain't no help
I pray for my health my mind and my family too
State of myself my grind and my family crew
Where one hand watches the other
No we ain't blood
But we still real brothers
The struggle is real
Nothing can steal
What we build
And that remains the same
'Till that day we killed
And that's real
Life that I was aimed to be
Love by my family tree
That's fame to me
How about it
[Chorus]
As recorded by david bowie
Fame, makes a man take things over.
Fame, let's him lose, hard to swallow.
Fame, puts you there where things are hollow.
Fame.
Fame,
It's not your brain, it's just a flame,
That burns your change to keep you insane.
Fame.
Fame, what you like is in the limo.
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
Fame, what you need you have to borrow.
Fame.
Fame,
Now it's mine, it's just his line
To bind your time it drives you to crime.
Fame.
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, baby?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really be, really, babe?
Is it any wonder
I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame.
Is it any wonder
You are too cool to fool?
Fame.
Fame,
Bully for you,
Chilly for me,
Got to get a raincheck on pain.
Fame.
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame,
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame,
Fame, fame, fame, - fame.
What's your name?
(fame, fame)
Uh-huh (Y'KNOW?)
ARF!
Uhh..
Take it for what it's worth, my birth was a blessing
Sent to live and die, on earth as a lesson
We each have a star, all we have to do is find it
Once you do, everyone who sees it will be blinded (WHAT?)
They'll tell you that you're bright, and say you have a future
When you turn your back, same cats'll try to shoot ya
Niggaz ain't shit, I can live on both sides of the fence
Forget what you do, when you talk, see what you really meant (aight?)
That's what I thought, them niggaz was bluffin (uh)
They talk all day but say, nothin (uh)
It gets so dark (WHAT?) haze so intense
Since this first rain it's like it's rained ever since (WHAT?)
Never got paid for a rhyme but I flow (whoo)
Never got a plate on time but I grow (whoo)
Live your life, STAY on the line but I go (UHH)
Went from doin crime to bein kind cause I know
I'm gon' live forever, I'm never gon' die
Only thing I fear is that I'm never gon' fly
Carry my weight but I'm never gon' cry
Shit I tell y'all niggaz straight cause I'm never gon' lie
What is about who I am that makes me unforgettable (HMM)
What it is about what I've done that makes it so incredible (uhh)
"More money, more problems" -- well the fame was worse (uh-huh)
I reached out for love and what came back was thirst (WHAT?)
Blessed with the curse (uh) niggaz don't hear me
Niggaz don't hear me, Y'ALL NIGGAZ, don't hear me (uh)
What'd I just say? "Nigga g'head" - you see that?
You gots to FEEL ME to catch what I'm sayin, BELIEVE THAT (UHH!)
But leave that, alone (WHAT?)
We gon' make a nigga wanna be at, your home (WHAT?)
Oh you kinda quiet with the heat at, your dome (UHH!)
If the dog got he's gonna bring back a bone
cause we got the chrome (C'MON!)
This is what I live for, or die for
I'm the nigga with the high score, you try for
What you niggaz wanna lie for? It changes nothin
I'm true for cats, yet some strangers bluffin
Now if I take what he gave me and I, use it right (uh-huh)
In other words if I listen and, use the light (uh-huh)
Then what I say will remain here, after I'm gone
Still here, on the strength of a song, I live on (HMM)
No second-guessin on what I stood for, I was good for
stoppin niggaz from killin each other in the hood war (UHH)
Comin through showin love, throwin up (UHH)
Them cats not throwin love, you know whassup (WHAT?)
Dark Man baby, that's my name
and I gots to be the realest nigga (UHH) up in this game
Cause ain't no shame, they don't make em like, this no more
Real to the core, big heart but built for war
I stand for what I believe in
Even if what I believe in stops me from breathin
Relatives grievin, but I ain't went nowhere
[Verse 1: Young Jeezy]F-ck these haters, I'd kill 'em all if I could
Ain't scared of none of y'all, so you know my aim good
Blowin bin Ladie in my Porsche 911
Just left Ground Zero, on my way to kush heaven
Can't slow down, too much evil in my rear view
Sometimes you wanna scream to God, but he can't hear you
And even if you did, this'll probably be his answer
F-ck you complaining about? It ain't like you got cancer
Do it for my niggas on the block that got it worse
First the love, then the hate, that just a trap nigga's curse
I betcha feel like the whole world hatin' on you
But what's the holdup? The whole world waitin' on you
(The fame,)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherf-ckers envy
(The fame,)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
[Verse 2: Young Jeezy]You mean to tell me from runnin' my big mouth
That I could chill here in this big penthouse
All elevator'd up, black hardwood floors
Just to sit around and feel like it ain't yours
Your conscience gotcha feelin' like you done somethin' wrong
But the flatscreen say motherf-cker, we on
Pardon me, nigga, do you see this view?
See Ruth's Chris from here, what the f-ck's wrong wit' you
Lookin' at my Rollie, yeah, it's almost seven
Bill Gates state of mind wit' a automatic weapon
You might 'member me from puttin' on for the city
Or back when it was on two, goin' for the fitty
Opened up a few squares, opened up a few tours
Just to show niggas keys open up doors
"Oh, we don't f-ck wit' Young no mo'" Why not?
The only thing I can figure, 'cause he on top
(The fame,)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
(The fame,)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
(The fame,)
[Verse 3: T.I.]What up, world? Long time, huh?
Hey, look
Lately, I been off and out of sight, seldom out of mind
Ay, getcha bidne' right, and stay the hell up out of mind
I'm out my mind, tryin' to fix it 'fore I'm out of time
Don't worry 'bout me, God got me, bruh, I'm doin' fine
Another year in prison, promise this is it for me
Tryna make it through the storm, should be makin' history
No feelin' sorry for me, keep ya pity and ya sympathy
Good or bad, take it like a man, whatever meant for me
How I did it make 'em hate my spirit, they wish they could kill it
And they'll take it however they can get it
Wanna see me fulla misery, walkin' wit' my head down
"Let's decapitate 'im, then we'll see if he can wear his crown!"
(The fame,)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherf-ckers envy
(The fame,)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
(The fame,)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
(The fame,) I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock 'til it's empty
I'm already standin' on the edge, so don't tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
[Young Jeezy]
F-ck these haters, I’d kill ‘em all if I could
Ain’t scared of none of y’all, so you know my aim good
Blowin bin Ladie in my Porsche 911
Just left Ground Zero, on my way to kush heaven
Can’t slow down, too much evil in my rear view
Sometimes you wanna scream to God, but he can’t hear you
And even if you did, this’ll probably be his answer
"F-ck you ‘plainin’ ’bout? ...It ain’t like you got cancer!!"
Do it for my niggas on the block that got it worse
First the love, then the hate, that just a trap nigga’s curse
I betcha feel like the whole world hatin’ on you
But what’s the holdup? The whole world waitin’ on you
(The fame)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherf-ckers envy
(The fame)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
[Young Jeezy]
You mean to tell me from runnin’ my big mouth
That I could chill here in this big penthouse
All elevator’d up, black hardwood floors
Just to sit around and feel like it ain’t yours
Your conscience gotcha feelin’ like you done somethin’ wrong
But the flatscreen say motherf-cker, we on
Pardon me, nigga, do you see this view?
See Ruth’s Chris from here, what the f-ck’s wrong wit’ you
Lookin’ at my Rollie, yeah, it’s almost seven
Bill Gates state of mind wit’ a automatic weapon
You might ‘member from puttin’ on for the city
Or back when it was on two, goin’ for the fitty
Opened up a few squares, opened up a few tours
Just to show niggas keys open up doors
“Oh, we don’t f-ck wit’ Young no mo’” Why not?
The only thing I can figure, ’cause he on top
(The fame)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy(The fame)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
(The fame)
[Verse 3: T.I.]
What up, world? Long time, huh?
Hey, look
Lately, I been off and out of sight, seldom out of mind
Ay, getcha bidne’ right, and stay the hell up out of mind
I’m out my mind, tryin’ to fix it ‘fore I’m out of time
Don’t worry ’bout me, God got me, bruh, I’m doin’ fine
Another year in prison, promise this is it for me
Tryna make it through the storm, should be makin’ history
No feelin’ sorry for me, keep ya pity and ya sympathy
Good or bad, take it like a man, whatever meant for me
How I did it make ‘em hate my spirit, they wish they could kill it
And they’ll take it however they can get it
Wanna see me fulla misery, walkin’ wit’ my head down
“Let’s decapitate ‘im, then we’ll see if he can wear his crown!”
(The fame…)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherf-ckers envy
(The fame…)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
(The fame)
I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
(The fame) I wake up and feel empty
Shit make you wanna squeeze your Glock ’til it’s empty
I’m already standin’ on the edge, so don’t tempt me
Fake motherfuckers envy
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Baby, remember my name!
Baby, look at me
And tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet.
Give me time,
I'll make you forget the rest.
I got more in me,
And you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hand
Don't you know who I am?
Remember my name. Fame!
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly--high!
I feel it comin' together
People will see me and cry. Fame!
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame. Fame!
I'm gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
Remember, remember, remember, remember,
Remember, remember, remember, remember.
Baby, hold me tight
Cause you can make it right.
You can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all I got to give
Baby, I'll be tough
Too much is not enough, no
I can ride your heart 'till it breaks.
Fame makes a man take things over
Fame lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame puts you there, where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, hurts your brain, just a flame
A funny tin to dip you inside, fame
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need, you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, the dirty swine, it's just his line
He's only trying to drive you to crime, fame
Is it any wonder?
I'll reject you first
Is it any wonder?
You're too cool to prove
Fame, a ticket for you, a ticket for me
I've gotta get to Witchitta, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame
What's your name?
George Michael
Miscellaneous
Fame
Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there, where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
that burns the change to keep you insane
Fame
Fame, what you like is in the Limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, "Nien! It's mine!" is just his line
to bind your time, it drives you to, ah, crime
Fame
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really be, really, babe?
Is it any wonder
I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder
you're too cool to fool
Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain-check on pain
Fame
{vocoder}
ba ba be
ba be ba be
ba be ba be
ba ba ba ba
ba ba
baby, baby
baby
Fame
Make you feel like you can walk on water
Oughta blame the fame see the list gots shorter
Famous fame in nations
Publicist managers public relations
Sometimes the first gets all the perks
Publicist manager lawyer lurks
Who ends up as the jerk who jerks
Everybody eventually hits the dirt
Sometimes fame ain't got nothing to do with work
Check the list read between the tears who got jerked.
Across the 7 lands 7 seas omg time flys
DJ lord give me a fly by
It is I
Mindin my own mind
Father time be the boss
Comes at a cost
He ain't never lost
Fame is fake
Cause it fades
Pop the fame bubble
Cause he and she got game trouble
Missing person alert
Everybodys pockets and feeling hurt
Fame fortune attention did I mention
Flavor wood I mean hollywood
Oscar even smokin newports
Sippin that drink
What the fuck you think?
My head got big
Cause I got that crank
Fame is my new name
Rolls Royce is my new game
I got that bank
I can make it rain
Cash money baby so remember the name
Yeah thats right I came back home one time
To put ret tops out on the block
And got the stock
And broke out and took a different route
And moved to la to throw a frito lay
Off the dock of the bay
Now me and chuck d still making records
That you play
Every wrong sht that gets in our way we slay
Well bulldoze you down like
Elin nordegren
Did to tiger woods crib
Its on the internet
Either makes you you hit it or quit it
No sht
So what you wanna do
What you gonna do
I come off the road from nowhere
And I brought my crew
Make yourself valuable so the money chases you
Fame ain't equal cause it can degrade you
Somebody claim they made you
Fame may make you breakable then break you
Instead of not paying teachers for teachin
The young get hung up and murder for sneakers
Famous just to be famous
Paparazzi aim is
What my name is
She used to sing gospel
Then broke away from gods spell
Pitfall was pitiful
As she lay in the hospital
Famous politicians in the 80s
Led to the birth of crack babies
DJ lord save us
From those that cried davis
Machine of the acts created
I hate it.
Flavor wood I mean hollywood
Oscar even smokin newports
Sippin that drink
What the fuck you think?
My head got big
Cause I got that crank
Fame is my new name
Rolls Royce is my new game
I got that bank
I can make you think
Cash money baby so remember the name
Yeah thats right I came back home one time
To put red tops out on the block
Got in a stock
And broke out and took a different route
And moved to la to throw a frito lay
Off the dock of the bay
Now me and chuck d still making records
That you play
Every one that gets in our way we slay
We fooled those who doubt like
Elin nordegren
Did to tiger woods crib
Hell Squad On Deck
Hell Squad On Deck
Hell Squad On Deck
Hey hey do you wanna be famous
Everywhere you go, people know what your name is
Everyone you know, tryin' to tell you you changin'
They wanna taste that
Fame (that) fame (that) fame (that) fame (that) fame
Famous, everybody wanna be famous
Most people wanna just taste it
Other people trynna just sneak in the VIP and chill with the big faces
They don't really see them changes, when the fame hits
When I'm up on the stage they sing it as soon as I step up they hate it
And I'm saying I really ain't with that complaining just look at the picture I'm painting
Yeah I pay my rent, vacation then
Take trips all around the equator then
Come back to the A hit the stage again
Then I go up in that booth where they caged me in
Feel regular but then I go insane again
If you witness the condition that my brain is in
You would see I'm in hell where Satan is
Hardest thing to do is maintain a friend
Cause everybody tryna get paid from me
But fuck it, this the entertainment biz
So let the games begin, I mean let the flames begin
Hey, I'm just trained in this
A lot of everybody didn't get paid from it
I'm famous
Hey hey do you wanna be famous
Everywhere you go, people know what your name is
Everyone you know, tryin' to tell you you changin'
They wanna taste that
Fame (that) fame (that) fame (that) fame (that) fame
Popular, everybody wanna be popular
Little kids just be watchin' us through binoculars
And then they go to school and copy us
But hey I'm not knockin' y'all
But how can y'all not see it's obvious
Cause cops just be plottin on us
When the paparazzi be spottin' us
Cause everybody just wanna be on MTV or BET, yo
Maybe sees an MVP or maybe even just poppin' the queen
But everybody can't be a G, O to the D
And everybody can't B, O to the B
But I don't know maybe this is just how it's supposed to be
But this is what'll happen to y'all
You know crazy and beat up trucks
The tabloids sayin' that you're hooked on drugs
You cutting up your face then sew it back up
But look it's plain to see
Ain't nothing in this game gone be changing me
Imma always B, O to the B me me
I'm famous
Hey hey do you wanna be famous
Everywhere you go, people know what your name is
Everyone you know, tryin' to tell you you changin'
They wanna taste that
Fame fame fame fame fame
Everywhere you go they just wanna be stars
Everyone you know wanna drive a fancy car
Everyone you know want you to buy at the bar
They wanna taste that fame fame fame fame (everywhere we go, everywhere we go now)
Hey hey do you wanna be famous
Everywhere you go, people know what your name is
Everyone you know, tryin' to tell you you changin'
They wanna taste that
Fame fame fame fame fame
Hey hey do you wanna be famous
Everywhere you go, people know what your name is
Everyone you know, tryin' to tell you you changin'
They wanna taste that
Fame fame fame fame fame
Hell Squad On Deck
Hell Squad On Deck
Hell Squad On Deck
Fame, I'm the man that takes things over
Fame makes me loose, hard to swallow
Fame puts me there where things are hollow
Fame
Fame
It's not your brain, it's just the flame
The bitch is gonna get your ends
SLAIN!
(You know I need the money, I will get the money
Cos I need the cash, hey c'mon gotta get it)
(You know I need the money, I will get the money
Cos I need the cash, hey c'mon gotta get it)
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, take it now there's no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you'll have to borrow
Fame
Fame
Nine is fine, it plays for time
I'ma lemme hit you from be-hind
Fame, Fame
Fame
A bullet for me, I bust it for you
I love it when you grab my gun
Fame
Fame, what's your name? What's your name? What's your name?
Say my name? Say my name? Say my name?
The world's famous, rugged with the superstar persona
Rough designer, the chubby alcoholic rhymer
Big timer, I'm known in places I haven't even been
Executed styles behind men
Oh God, I preach that old Hudd City gospel
My look's hostile, hittin Remy from the bottle
The fame is like I'm possessed wit game
And everywhere I go, hos screamin my name
But I'm rollin, not that my bald head's swollen
I'm towin, ya fixed up, they'd rather see ya broken
I'm scopin often where the spotlights shine
Me and my crew drinkin tryin ta have a good time
But folks watchin, wearin khakis or Versace
They try to mack me, caught up in the papparazzi
I'ma look what the hogg had become
A top notch nigga with the fame game
Is it any wonder, I'll reject ya first
Fame Fame Fame Fame
Is it any wonder, your heart's too cold to fool
Ayo, I know it’s been a minute
But were back!!!
It’s the return of the Dozen Muthaf-ckers
Lets goooo
[Eminem]
Fame, fame, fame
I think it’s got me going crazy, ooo-ooooh
I getting lost in this game, game, game
I’m getting tired of all you naysayers, ooo-ooooh
Keep speakin’ my name, name, name
And you’ll have reason to hate me
Yeaaaah
Its like you dont want me to win
So this time i’m going in
[Verse 1]
This the life of a rah
Jager-meister and vodka
Hopping off at the club’s balcony into the crowd surfing
And when they drop me, I’m randomly socking fans
During my interviews, hocky masks, left the journalists on her ass
I’m high off Speed, driving my car at high speed
Pocket full of weed while lesbians swollow E
In the studio ignant, my engineer gon’ call police
I feel asleep on the sound board, aint did a song for weeks
And it’s ? all up in my head, giving thanks for grateful dead
Bussing in the air with 30 bitches up in my bed
I’m kickin’ em out naked, and its December
N-ggas ask me why I did it, but f-ck it I can’t remember
[Eminem]
Fame, fame, fame
I think it’s got me going crazy, ooo-ooooh
I getting lost in this game, game, game
I’m getting tired of all you naysayers, ooo-ooooh
Keep speakin’ my name, name, name
And you’ll have reason to hate me
Yeaaaah
Its like you dont want me to win
So this time i’m going in
[Verse 2]
Them boys are wildin’
Drinkin’, cussin’ and hyper smilin’
Been ridin’ for days, tour bus look like Rikers Island
Henny, Jack Daniels, spray painting a die hard fan
Little cocker spaniel, fresh outta the damn zoo
Man you, better be concious I’m backstage living it up
With a couple of sluts feeling nauseous, drinking
It’s been a couple of days since I’ve slept
My dick is sore from f-cking, when I bust there’s nothing left
Just Dozen, back on the stage
Give me my microphone
Scrapping with the audience while we perform hyper songs
Our label presented us with a plaque
Brought it on stage, and bash it to pieces with aluminum bats, thanks!
Now which one of you bitches down for the cause
Yeah I said my dick is sore but I aint say shit about my balls
Last call, then we off to the next city
Whatever I didn’t drink on my rider, bag it up and take the rest with me
[Eminem]
Fame, fame, fame
I think it’s got me going crazy, ooo-ooooh
I getting lost in this game, game, game
I’m getting tired of all you naysayers, ooo-ooooh
Keep speakin’ my name, name, name
And you’ll have reason to hate me
Yeaaaah
Its like you dont want me to win
So this time i’m going in
[Eminem]
Yeah this game has got me going crazy
F-ck it I am crazy
Whats new, what kind of f-cking glue you think I’d be if I was glue
We lost Proof, he was our groups glue but where was you when we were fallin’ apart?
You were shittin on us too
But no one but us knew we were beefing cause thats what happens
When you beef with crew, it stays in your crew
Cause its just crew, but were back now
Yeah we took our time but we punched through
Only thing were in a hurry for now is to rush you
And we back to say shit you dont got the guts or the nuts too
Pussy, go pick your pussy leaves off your cunt tree, f-ck you
Atchooo, bless you
I’m allergic to pussy, sluts too
Yeah you think you’re the shit till we flush you
Have some bullshit to readjust to
Now theres just a few of us left but it’d be unjust to rob us our just dues
So Rest In Peace to Bugz and Proof, this ones for you homies we love you
But we can’t stop now we’d have too much of our blood drew from this fame
[Eminem]
Fame, fame, fame
I think it’s got me going crazy, ooo-ooooh
I getting lost in this game, game, game
I’m getting tired of all you naysayers, ooo-ooooh
Keep speakin’ my name, name, name
And you’ll have reason to hate me
Yeaaaah
Its like you dont want me to win
Written by: Vanilla Ice, Tha Hit Men, Zero
Produced by: Vanilla Ice, Tha Hit Men, Zero
Published by: Ice Baby Music, Inc., DJ Zero Music, Inc.,
Oliver and Cooley Music Publishing, BMI.
Talkbox: Jeffrey Smith
Bass: Mike daane
Drums: Davis Bickston
Guitar: Andy Timmons
Background vocals (rap): Vanilla Ice
Mix by: Vanilla Ice
Synchclavier engineer: Robert Wechsler
Recorded & Mixed at Luminous Studios, Inc.
Now everybody wants to have fame
But you'll pay the price if you're not plain' it by the game
Cuz this game is made up of a bunch of crazy rules,
And fools get took if they're not plaing by the rules.
Now, the Ice is kickin' it, kickin' it kickin' it like a champ,
But don't try to play me like some wet food stamp.
They say that it was a fluke,
cuz I used a fat loop,
But here's the sccop, troop
The Ice is back to make it hoop.
An' since it's 94, and now I'm back on the scene,
Escapin from the hell of takin' it to the extreme.
It's kind of strange, cuz people say you've changed...
But I never changed,
Even though I got Fame,
Yo, I'm still the same...Ugh!
Fame, I'm still the same person,
I never ever switch, an' even if I'm rich.
But now it's like an itch,
Cuz I love the music.
They say I do it for the money,
And it's funny, clockin' all the honeys;
The ones that used to dis - now they wanna kiss.
Lookin' at what my troops got,
Now they're getting their boots knocked.
Damn it's a shame - do I love 'em
No I don't "G".
A couple of yeas ago, they didn't want me
Now I got these so called friends,
It's down with the Ice,
Cuz they know I'm makin' ends.
But my real friends have been friends through the fame.
An' since I have fame ain't a damn thing changed,
Yo I'm still the same...Ugh!
And let me tell you about the pros and the cons,
Fame only lasts if you keep droppin' them bombs.
Now in the public eye - you know I'm havin' to admit it,
You become a target for a whole lot of critics.
Reporters stickin' to ya like white on rice.
Now everywhere I go they wanna interview the Ice.
Before every show it's like I'm steadily surrounded
By all of my
I'm everything you're chasing, the thing that you dream about
I'm what you really want, the shit that people read about
Niggers care for me, I make them bring the heat... For me
What? What the fuck? Who is this? Is that clear?
Cause I ain't with the gangs, what' you mean?
... I nodes that you want me, look obsessed tryin to get me
You want a ride home?... they easy try to get me
And even if you get me, are you sure u can handle me?
Many came before you but they failed they couldn't handle me
I'm the glamor, the glimpse, the scene, I m the...
I turn boys into lambs when the time's right
I'm your life, you're excited by my name
I'm what you decide, motherfucker, I'm fame
Fame? What the f,.. hey yo' how did you?
Nothing to my soul, don't tell me that I changed
'Cause in my mind I thought that I still a saint
I didn't nodes... the changes that I made
'Cause I was too busy, chasing fame, chasing fame
I'm chasing fame,
Don't tell me that I changed, 'cause I've been too busy
Chasing fame
Some celebrities' good... so they steal with me
All the nigger get high, they can't deal with me
I'm the reason why... Slap the ground
You could be a conie or be a Barbie brown
It's up to you, you still wanna fuck with me
'Cause what you win it's forever you can't... with me
I mean yeah, no, God, damn, let me think
I only wanna be famous to help me... (lead) the streets
I didn't changed your life I got you... right
You was the street too, look how I saved your life
But I had the sacrifice, I don't see my sunny light
2 or 3 weeks straight, what happened to my family life?
Welcome to the fast life
I be clubbing every night
This is what you asked for, this is what you wanted, right?
Geeh, I know, money hose, cars close,.. life
Got what you was wishing
Look into my soul, and tell me that I changed
'Cause In my mind I thought that I was the same
I didn't nodes all the changes that I made
'Cause I've been too busy
Chasing fame, chasing fame,
I'm chasing fame
Don't tell me that I changed,
'Cause I've been busy, chasing fame
Hey, watch'you doing? People looking at me different
Friends say I changed, they think I'm acting different
At first all I wanted is to get my hands on riches
Too busy chasing you, to nodes all the differences
People see me now, where they go, snapping pictures
When you go I come running tell me why you're so addictive
You're a gift, you're a curse, you feelin' like a drug
That's why I'm chasing you, I heard... out love
And I ain't who I was cause I ain't...
I ain't in the hood, I've been out damn tryin' to talk
Tell me what to do, I was cool before I blew...
'Cause now I spend my days out tryin' to catch you
I'm tryn' no be the same don't tell me that I changed
Stop fucking with my mind, you're playin' with my brain
Tell me who I am, my mother cause me...
I guess this is what they call
Fame, like to make me a name, nothing less than the best for me,
Fame, trading love for a name,?, no one to blame but me.
You were the one who,?, to love me,
I,?, place,
You were the one that I needed,
Where are you?
Can't you hear me singing for you baby?
Where are you?
Come on back, I need you, won't you save me?
Fame, burning bright as a flame, but it drove you away from me,
Fame, whats the use of this game, if I cant have you back with me.
Making the big time, making the money, some how it don't seem to take the place of,
?, and I never see your face.
Where are you?
Can't you hear me singing for you baby?
Where are you?
Come on back, I need you, won't you save me?
Where are you?
Can't you hear me singing for you baby?
Where are you?
Come on back, I need you, won't you save me?
Fame, gonna drive me insane, it drove you away from me,
Fame, so alone with my name, even that don't belong to me.
Running away won't help me forget you,
I? to find you and end this race so.,
Like? is so lonely,
? one night stands that never take your place.
Where are you?
Can't you hear me singing for you baby?
Where are you?
Come on back, I need you, won't you save me?
Fame, whats the use of this game if I can't have you back with me?
Fame, all alone with my name, even that don't belong to me.
Fame, tried to make me a name, I've got no one to blame but me.
Fame, gonna drive me insane, like it drove you away from me.
[Verse 1]
They was told not to ride in Patty's +Hearse+
and stay out of Charles' +Manson+
Took Abraham's +Lincoln+ through the Todd +Bridges+ espansion
Willis +Reid+s a map that marks the spot showin
On his left George +Burns+ a blunt William's holdin
Tara +Bank+ed the money that Chaka +Khan+ed the poor
Alicia +Key+ed his car for givin Melbourne +Moore+
For the Redd +Foxx+ who bought off the block, but though twice
As Debora +Cox+ the gun cuz she beat Kelly's +Price+
When Rosa +Park+ed the truck on the farm that Kim +Fields+
Linda +Tripp+ed for tryna to walk in Lauryn's +Hills+
Water dripped outta Farrah's +Fawcett+ in the glass
She was "Superfly", Curtis +Mayfield+ her ass
Chris +Tucker+ to a show, Ted +Turner+ to a hoe
Robert +Diggs+ the beat, but ain't feelin the flow
But he signed it fast, for half of Johnny's +Cash+
+Nia Long+ed for the album to drop, cameras flashed
Tom +Sawyer+ at the Lucielle +Ball+ up at the foyer
He confronted Richard +Pryor+ to hiring his lawyer
Suge's +Knight+ removed the rook off the board
Donna +King+ was checked and Al +Sharpton+ the sword
"Wettin cream, I aint wettin fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
[Verse 2]
The saints marched in, Kurtis +Blow+ing his horn
Tom +Cruise+d the boulevard, Chris +Rock+ed the song
For the hundredth time, they pressed rewind to the beginning
They toast to the rhyme, the juice spilt from John's +Lennon+
They took her to Elizabeth +Taylor+ to dry clean
The lone seamstress, who was schemin on Al's +Green+
You know they shoot for the stars and buckwild
Like the kids in the yard who play with +Jane's Child+
A beautician laced Erykah's +Badu+
Sean +Comb+ed through the evidence, just to get a clue
The needle in the haystack, from outta earth this kid
The tiger would kill him once thrown in Brad's +Pitt+
Jesse +Owen+ the money from the weed Bubba +Sparxxx+
They was journeys seen far as he walked in Dick's +Clark+
Jeffery +Lyons+ stuck with a thorn from George's +Bush+
Paul +Pierce+d in the heart as the crowd pushed
Acting alone... Drew +Barrymore+ bones
of the victims, three blocks from Jim's +Brownstone+
They shared the same bowl, he caught Natalie's +Cole+d
The producer, threw the butter on Esther's +Rolle+
Dempsey +Russel+ed him down, got his jaw wide
In a instant, Brooke +Shields+ him from the gunfire
Angie +Stone+d him to death, with those vocals
Keith +Sweat+ from the workout, just from runnin local
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
[Verse 3]
Larry's +Bird+ flew outta Nicholas' +Cage+
Joe +Tex+ messages from Satchel's +Paige+
Betty +Wright+ letters with ink from Sean's +Penn+
Infinite bars, you couldn't tell where the song end
Glenn +Close+ enough to quickly duck the tapes
Richard +Gere+ ripped while he was climbin Bill +Gates+
He was a southerner, posing as a, native New Yorker
The Jason +Kidd+ took his first steps in Jimmy's +Walker+
He stayed on line chattin with rap celebs
Used Bernie's +Mack+ to search Veronica's +Webb+
It cost them their life for the advice you gave
Now Pete +Rose+ lay on Vanessa's +Redgrave+
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
[Verse 1]
They was told not to ride in Patty's +Hearse+
and stay out of Charles' +Manson+
Took Abraham's +Lincoln+ through the Todd +Bridges+ espansion
Willis +Reid+s a map that marks the spot showin
On his left George +Burns+ a blunt William's holdin
Tara +Bank+ed the money that Chaka +Khan+ed the poor
Alicia +Key+ed his car for givin Melbourne +Moore+
For the Redd +Foxx+ who bought off the block, but though twice
As Debora +Cox+ the gun cuz she beat Kelly's +Price+
When Rosa +Park+ed the truck on the farm that Kim +Fields+
Linda +Tripp+ed for tryna to walk in Lauryn's +Hills+
Water dripped outta Farrah's +Fawcett+ in the glass
She was "Superfly", Curtis +Mayfield+ her ass
Chris +Tucker+ to a show, Ted +Turner+ to a hoe
Robert +Diggs+ the beat, but ain't feelin the flow
But he signed it fast, for half of Johnny's +Cash+
+Nia Long+ed for the album to drop, cameras flashed
Tom +Sawyer+ at the Lucielle +Ball+ up at the foyer
He confronted Richard +Pryor+ to hiring his lawyer
Suge's +Knight+ removed the rook off the board
Donna +King+ was checked and Al +Sharpton+ the sword
"Wettin cream, I aint wettin fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
[Verse 2]
The saints marched in, Kurtis +Blow+ing his horn
Tom +Cruise+d the boulevard, Chris +Rock+ed the song
For the hundredth time, they pressed rewind to the beginning
They toast to the rhyme, the juice spilt from John's +Lennon+
They took her to Elizabeth +Taylor+ to dry clean
The lone seamstress, who was schemin on Al's +Green+
You know they shoot for the stars and buckwild
Like the kids in the yard who play with +Jane's Child+
A beautician laced Erykah's +Badu+
Sean +Comb+ed through the evidence, just to get a clue
The needle in the haystack, from outta earth this kid
The tiger would kill him once thrown in Brad's +Pitt+
Jesse +Owen+ the money from the weed Bubba +Sparxxx+
They was journeys seen far as he walked in Dick's +Clark+
Jeffery +Lyons+ stuck with a thorn from George's +Bush+
Paul +Pierce+d in the heart as the crowd pushed
Acting alone... Drew +Barrymore+ bones
of the victims, three blocks from Jim's +Brownstone+
They shared the same bowl, he caught Natalie's +Cole+d
The producer, threw the butter on Esther's +Rolle+
Dempsey +Russel+ed him down, got his jaw wide
In a instant, Brooke +Shields+ him from the gunfire
Angie +Stone+d him to death, with those vocals
Keith +Sweat+ from the workout, just from runnin local
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
[Verse 3]
Larry's +Bird+ flew outta Nicholas' +Cage+
Joe +Tex+ messages from Satchel's +Paige+
Betty +Wright+ letters with ink from Sean's +Penn+
Infinite bars, you couldn't tell where the song end
Glenn +Close+ enough to quickly duck the tapes
Richard +Gere+ ripped while he was climbin Bill +Gates+
He was a southerner, posing as a, native New Yorker
The Jason +Kidd+ took his first steps in Jimmy's +Walker+
He stayed on line chattin with rap celebs
Used Bernie's +Mack+ to search Veronica's +Webb+
It cost them their life for the advice you gave
Now Pete +Rose+ lay on Vanessa's +Redgrave+
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
(Gore / Pitchford)
Baby, look at me
and tell me what you see
cause you aint seen the best of me yet
Give me time, Ill make you forget the rest
Cause Ive got more in me
and you can set it free
Yes, I can catch the moon in my hand
Dont you know who I am
Remember my name
Fame, cause Im gonna live forever
Im gonna learn how to fly high
I feel it coming together, yeah
People will see me and cry
Fame, Im gonna make it to heaven
and light up the sky like a flame
Fame, Im gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Baby, hold me tight
cause you can make it right
Yes, you can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all Ive got to give, yeah
Baby, Ill be tough
cause too much is not enough, no
Ill grab your heart til it breaks
Oh, Ive got what it takes
Fame, cause Im gonna live forever
and Im gonna learn how to fly high
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
Fame, Im gonna make it to heaven
and light up the sky like a flame
Fame, Im gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Fame, cause Im gonna live forever
and Im gonna learn how to fly high
I feel it coming together, yeah
People will see me and cry
Fame, Im gonna make it to heaven
and light up the sky like a flame
Fame, Im gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Remember, remember, remember, remember
I said remember my name
Fame, cause Im gonna live forever, fame
Im gonna learn how to fly high
I feel it coming together, yeah, fame
People will see me and cry, fame
Fame, Im gonna make it to heaven, fame
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame, Im gonna live forever, fame
Baby, remember my name
Remember, remember, remember, remember
Fame makes a man take things over
Fame lets him lose, hard to swallow
Fame puts you there where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane
Fame
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, "Nein! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to crime
Fame
Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really babe?
Could it be my babe, could it, babe?
Could it, babe? Could it, babe?
Is it any wonder, I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool?
Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on pain
Fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame
Fame, what's your name?
Feeling so gay
(Intro)
Fame fame fame
Fame fame fame
Fame fame fame
Fame fame fame
Fame fame fame
Fame fame fame
(Verse)
Running like a fool I got a no damn motay
Headin to a label on a low key dope race
Gotta be on time, gotta go do show phase
Kinky lick, gotta go for cold tape
Man they sure want me to do a song for the whole place
Without a microphone, DJ and no stage
Someone put my products on my pockets of jose
Knowin inside of my heart these people are so fake
Pictures of New York, skyliners are back dropped
23 floor up, pound lookin at cap tops
I'm so fuckin nervous that I can't even act now
Thinkin jumpin out this window ain't such a bad drop
Smakin the black top cuz I'm on the have a lot
I'm just a have not
This in my time and am I lookin at that watch
It could be the end of it all, maybe my last shot
But I got a funny feeling it ain't right
I tell my manager but he just thinkin it's stage fright
Minus the fuckin sweat that's drippin off of my face
I realize if I do it then it's only for a price
Doin my cookin, add a ho with a big bite
Em other be kitchen, dealin for late night
Do they realize I'm in terrible shape right?
Can't even afford to get my little boy a bike
I sit down in front of LA Lee
The president of death, you ain't the boss performin
Into my left a KP and 30 of egganaughts who walk foreign
He say Yelawolf is an emcee from Alabama
Yelawolf you can have the floorin
I told him if you wanna see me seen
Come catch me tourin but I ain't performin for the fame
(Bridge)
It's just like that
Fame fame fame
I lost a deal with Death Jam
Fame fame fame
And I went home on Christmas broke
I didn't know what the fuck to do man
Fame fame fame
Shit
Fame fame fame
(Hook 1)
Money comes and goes just like the falling rain
Frederico go get outside and collect the change
Someday we'll look back and think what have we gained?
And the whole we can say
More than fame
(Verse)
What's the use in complainin about the decision I made if it's rainin
Then fuck it, pull the umbrella out, haters entertaining
I'mma ball for them focused
Got a lot of shows I gotta go hit
In the back of my mind I'm thinkin did I blow it?
But you notice all the people you roll with are losing their focus because of my ego
‘Cause I'm hopeless, won't listen to nobody
They sit and go on about how I won't make it
You won't make it
I keep fuckin up relationships with executive folks
With these checks to cut for deals, I'd be broke and
Stuck in the south with nothing but my old shit
And no new whips, new house, new clothes
New dough, you know you gotta go face it
Look er in the eye, say I'm sorry for fucking up
These rappers are coming up
What you gonna do about it?
Just sit back and watch em and get up and make a move about it, be about it
See it's about the way you committed, now you gotta go and get it
I got a question
Are fuckin up? Answer
Fuck yea
I ain't about to be another white boy stuck here
Hit the road, do any fuckin show that I could get overseas
Let's go Canada, let's go south by south-west
Yelawolf expo, kill that, made it mine
Focus, let's roll
Never lay when the mama tryin to get a hold
None of em have me, and here come Interscope
(Interlude)
Then I got a deal
You know?
I don't know
I guess integrity goes a long way man
Gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em
Shady Records
So american
(Hook 2)
Just give me some place that I can hang
Somewhere way back in the back to drink a drink
You ain't gotta tell me that I ain't the same old same
I've seen some things
We won't change
(Hook 1)
Money comes and goes just like the falling rain
Frederico go get outside and collect the change
Someday we'll look back and think what have we gained?
And the whole we can say
Got the law man
The con man
The liquor store man
Got the man at the premiere to "Spider-Man"
Got the old man calling on the young man
Got the soul man
Trying to keep a hold man
I seen the stars lookin in her eyes
So many times I tried
Seen a man who caught the rainbow's end
He claimed
That the pot of gold resided within
For a name in the U.S.A.
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the world today
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly
You want to fly high
For a name in the world today
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the U.S.A.
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly
You want to fly high
Got the this is your land man
This is my land man
Got the blood on the tracks man
Got the guilty man
Got the innocent man
Got the buffalo soldier
The dreadlock Rastaman
Seen the stars looking in her eyes
So many times I've tried
Talked to a man who caught the
rainbow's end he found
That the pot of gold resided within
For a name in the world today
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the U.S.A.
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly
For a name in the U.S.A.
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the U.S.A.
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly
Just a tattoo carved in skin, it will haunt you.
And the substance will break you.
The addictions a breakthrough.
So search for me in hell.
I could not blame you.
I'll be the one singing a love song.
You had it all in your hands, but you threw it away.
Just for the simple taste of the high that you crave.
I won't come down.
Red hair, stilettos; she smells like Chanel
and I'm a sucker for nylons.
I thought you'd never go and leave me here alone.
Still freezing in the cold a million miles from home.
Just a tattoo carved in skin it will haunt you.
And the substance will break you.
The addictions a breakthrough.
I hope this murder finds you well
at the end of the rope.
I thought you'd never go and leave me here alone
Still freezing in the cold a million miles from home.
At the of the rope we'll start over again.
At the end of the rope, from the ceiling you'll hang.
At the end of the rope we'll start over again.
[Verse 1]
They was told not to ride in Patty's +Hearse+
and stay out of Charles' +Manson+
Took Abraham's +Lincoln+ through the Todd +Bridges+ espansion
Willis +Reid+s a map that marks the spot showin
On his left George +Burns+ a blunt William's holdin
Tara +Bank+ed the money that Chaka +Khan+ed the poor
Alicia +Key+ed his car for givin Melbourne +Moore+
For the Redd +Foxx+ who bought off the block, but though twice
As Debora +Cox+ the gun cuz she beat Kelly's +Price+
When Rosa +Park+ed the truck on the farm that Kim +Fields+
Linda +Tripp+ed for tryna to walk in Lauryn's +Hills+
Water dripped outta Farrah's +Fawcett+ in the glass
She was "Superfly", Curtis +Mayfield+ her ass
Chris +Tucker+ to a show, Ted +Turner+ to a hoe
Robert +Diggs+ the beat, but ain't feelin the flow
But he signed it fast, for half of Johnny's +Cash+
+Nia Long+ed for the album to drop, cameras flashed
Tom +Sawyer+ at the Lucielle +Ball+ up at the foyer
He confronted Richard +Pryor+ to hiring his lawyer
Suge's +Knight+ removed the rook off the board
Donna +King+ was checked and Al +Sharpton+ the sword
"Wettin cream, I aint wettin fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
[Verse 2]
The saints marched in, Kurtis +Blow+ing his horn
Tom +Cruise+d the boulevard, Chris +Rock+ed the song
For the hundredth time, they pressed rewind to the beginning
They toast to the rhyme, the juice spilt from John's +Lennon+
They took her to Elizabeth +Taylor+ to dry clean
The lone seamstress, who was schemin on Al's +Green+
You know they shoot for the stars and buckwild
Like the kids in the yard who play with +Jane's Child+
A beautician laced Erykah's +Badu+
Sean +Comb+ed through the evidence, just to get a clue
The needle in the haystack, from outta earth this kid
The tiger would kill him once thrown in Brad's +Pitt+
Jesse +Owen+ the money from the weed Bubba +Sparxxx+
They was journeys seen far as he walked in Dick's +Clark+
Jeffery +Lyons+ stuck with a thorn from George's +Bush+
Paul +Pierce+d in the heart as the crowd pushed
Acting alone... Drew +Barrymore+ bones
of the victims, three blocks from Jim's +Brownstone+
They shared the same bowl, he caught Natalie's +Cole+d
The producer, threw the butter on Esther's +Rolle+
Dempsey +Russel+ed him down, got his jaw wide
In a instant, Brooke +Shields+ him from the gunfire
Angie +Stone+d him to death, with those vocals
Keith +Sweat+ from the workout, just from runnin local
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
[Verse 3]
Larry's +Bird+ flew outta Nicholas' +Cage+
Joe +Tex+ messages from Satchel's +Paige+
Betty +Wright+ letters with ink from Sean's +Penn+
Infinite bars, you couldn't tell where the song end
Glenn +Close+ enough to quickly duck the tapes
Richard +Gere+ ripped while he was climbin Bill +Gates+
He was a southerner, posing as a, native New Yorker
The Jason +Kidd+ took his first steps in Jimmy's +Walker+
He stayed on line chattin with rap celebs
Used Bernie's +Mack+ to search Veronica's +Webb+
It cost them their life for the advice you gave
Now Pete +Rose+ lay on Vanessa's +Redgrave+
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
Baby, look at me,
And tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time
I'll make you forget the rest
I got more then you
That you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hand
Don't you know who I am?
Remember my name
Fame
I wanna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
Fame
I feel it comin' together
People will see me and cry
Fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame
I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name
Baby, hold me tight
'Cause you can make it right
You can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all I got to give
Baby, I'll return
Too much is not enough
Why I can't ride your heart till it breaks
Ooh, I got what it takes
Remember my name
Fame
I wanna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
Fame
I feel it comin' together
People will see me and cry
Fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame
I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name
[Solo]
Remember my name
Fame
I wanna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
Fame
I feel it comin' together
People will see me and cry
Fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame
I'm gonna live forever
What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name? What's your name?
Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there, where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change just to keep you in, sane
Fame
Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need, you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, nine it's mine, is just his line
To bind your time, it turns you to, crime
Fame
What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name? What's your name?
Is it any wonder, I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder, you are too cool to fool?
Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on, pain
Fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name? What's your name?
I am the new sensation
The breath of cool, fresh air
I’m loved by all the nation
Getting appraise on vanity fair
I shine and smile when you watch me
You want to be like me
‘Til another one, ‘til another will come
And you’ll forget and you’ll mistreat
Fall in love with another idol
Fall away with another fool
I know your expectations
I know what I should play
You want your new sensation
‘Cmon, ‘cmon, I want to stay
Please let me be your new star now
Please hear what I say
‘Til another one, ‘til another will come
And I will face the price to pay
‘Cos everyone begins and ends like this
Everyone has to pass
In the end all is dust and all in vain
In the end there is no one left to blame
All you see is the wasted life behind you
All you see is the love you once knew...
Fame!
We love fame
Fame!
We love fame
Fame!
Fame!
(solo)
Fame!
We love fame
Fame!
We love fame
Fame!
Fame!
In the end all is dust and all in vain
In the end there is no one left to blame
All you see is the wasted life behind you
All you see is the love you once knew...
All you have is fame
All you did is fame
I have tried to follow, I have tried to lead
I have failed at everything
I have been the culprit to my selfish needs, made everything but You my King
I couldn't be any less worthy
To spend one day much less forever with You
I lift my hands just as I am, I'm letting go of false control
I lift my voice, I have no choice
My life is Yours, use me for Your fame, Your fame
I have not seen heaven, I haven't seen Your face
But I've seen Your Spirit move
And Jesus it's amazing the evidence of grace standing all around this room
I'm merely a product of mercy
The target and victim of Your perfect love
I lift my hands just as I am, I'm letting go of false control
I lift my voice, I have no choice
My life is Yours, use me for Your fame, spreading like a flame
Let every breath proclaim glory to Your name
We ain't got no name. No, we ain't got no name.
We're rough I understand 'cause there's status here to claim.
Want it in my hand. Don't want it in my head.
Searching for a win and the battle's on the way.
Hustle make you high, high! Hustle make you low.
Say I want, say I want. What I want they'll never know.
Hustle make you high, high! Hustle make you low.
All or none. All or none. All I got will make you go.
Always still longing.
We don't want the fame. Oh, we want the fame.
All the same. We're all the same.
We don't want the fame. We don't want the fame.
We don't got no shame. No, we don't got no shame.
And look we got a plan, say we never play that game.
Keep our eyes in the sand so our hearts can't be mislead.
We're herd in through their lane, holding close to what we said.
Hustle make you high, high! Hustle get you low.
Here it come. Hold it tight. Somehow we still let it go.
Hustle make you high, high! Hustle get you low.
No, I don't want. No, I don't want. Maybe just a little blow.
Always still longing.
We don't want the fame. Oh, we want the fame.
All the same. We're all the same.
We don't want the fame. We don't want the fame.
Oh, we really want the same you and I down low. Oh, we really want the fame fame!
Oh, we really want the same you and I how low. Low, are we gon' go for fame fame!
Always still longing.
We don't want the fame. Oh, we want the fame.
All the same. We're all the same.
Baby look at me
And tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time I'll make you forget the rest
I got more in me
And you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hands
Don't you know who I am
Remember my name
Fame
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
High
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
Fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame
I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Baby hold me tight
Cause you can make it right
You can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all I've got to give
Baby I'll be tough
Too much is not enough
I can ride your heart til it breaks
Ooh I got what it takes
Fame
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
High
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
Fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame
I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name
Fame
Yeah, yeah
Turn us up
Yeah, uh-uh, yeah
Bring that beat
Yeah, that's it, c'mon
Y'all ready?
Let's go
[Chorus]
Fame, what does it mean?
I don't know
Why do people wanna be famous?
Well, some for the music and the fun
Others just for the money and the girls
Fame, what the fuck does it mean?
Well, I still don't know
.
[Verse 1]
Fame, what the fuck does it mean
Nobody knows, nobody cares
As long you can
Make some mean cash
It's kinda hard being Stif-l-e-r
But I can make it through
Ad if our album flops
We don't stop
'till we get to the top
'Cause the Starlight Dragons
keep it real to the end
We're a band
With style and class
And if ya don't like us
You can kiss our ass
This group is like family
L double E, Stifler
Sonny B and Nelly G
Ya don't want trouble
With tha Starlight couple
We pound ya to tha ground
With our beat and sound
Even when we die
Fame's all over the place
So don't waste our time
And let's get high
Well, fuck it we're goin' for the top 10
Maybe ya think we suck
But really we
Don't give a fuck
One day we're al gon' die
But when I die I'll be so high
And when we die
We're rappin' like a mummy
Yeah, yeah Uh-uh, yeah
[Chorus 2x]
Fame, what does it mean?
I don't know
Why do people wanna be famous?
Well, some for the music and the fun
Others just for the money and the girls
Fame, what the fuck does it mean?
Well, I still don't know
.
[Verse 2]
Hey, yo I'm tired of people
judging black people
We're all the same
You and Me
That's how it should be
No more racism and other shit
Just a little bit
Of this will be enough
I'm from the westcoast and I'm proud
Then we all shout:
What the fuck is going on
With this word today
With these rappers today
Slate and hate's the way
So many rappers
Rappin' over cars and money
Well ain't that funny?
The Dragons only rap about life
Ya better watch yo back
Before somebody stabs ya back
Watcha gonna do
When in comes to you?
There's no way to escape
The demons you're force to gain
So watch ya back, kid
There's one rule in fame:
Fuck the game
Before the game fucks you
And that's the shit
We've been talking about
This whole rhyme
But there's more
So keep listening
Uh-uh Yeah, Yeah
[Chorus 2x]
Fame, what does it mean?
I don't know
Why do people wanna be famous?
Well, some for the music and the fun
Others just for the money and the girls
Fame, what the fuck does it mean?
Well, I still don't know
.
[Verse 3]
If ya hate us
We gon' hate ya too
Wanna know what we gon' do?
We don't care bout fame
As long we win this came
We ain't gon' stop
'till we rock this place
Fame's just a race
Rappers want to go to the top
And they don't care bout pop
Dr. Dre and Snoop Do double G
That's how we wanna be
They're the best
They don't rest
Till they're the best
That's how the Dragons wanna be
Can't ya see?
We're not that big yet
But when we're set
Y'all wanna be us
Can ya see us?
Look good now
'Cause the next time you'll bow
Y'all laugh now
But when I made it
Y'all gon' say
I know that kid
Ya don't know me now
And ya ain't gon' now me then
That's just the deal, man
What do ya think of this rhyme?
Tell me in time
[Chorus 2x]
Fame, what does it mean?
I don't know
Why do people wanna be famous?
Well, some for the music and the fun
Others just for the money and the girls
Fame, what the fuck does it mean?
Well, I still don't know
.
Starlight
Dragons
Yeah, c'mon 1 more time
[Chorus]
Fame, what does it mean?
I don't know
Why do people wanna be famous?
Well, some for the music and the fun
Others just for the money and the girls
Fame, what the fuck does it mean?
Well, I still don't know
.
Well, I still don't know
.
Well, I still don't know
.
Jim Jones,Yeah
Prima J, Ay Ay
Lets go
uh uh uh uh uh uh
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
uh uh uh uh uh uh
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
I told him I like ya wit ya clothes on
But they gotta come off
So you better have em off when I come back
And I said yes I gotta boyfriend
but he's out of town
Baby he ain't coming home
So you can relax
Don't need Hennessy Tequila
Or a couple Margueritas
Cause I'm tipsy natural
Damn it's so unfair
You were fixiated on my Navel
When I got up on the table
Pulling secrets out my purse
Always so prepared
He said...
You're not an emotional kind of girl
You know what you want
And I'ma give it to you
A very unapproachable kind of girl
I got what you need
And I'ma give it to you
This weak I've never seen her before
She's like an animal
She walked in and throw her clothes on the floor
I think she's highly flammable
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
She's like, She's like an animal
I said I'm ready for some round three
Yeah wrap my legs around him
And this time I want you to pull my hair
Booty bouncing up and down
And I took it to the ground
He was lovin it but then we almost broke that chair
As the walls started rocking
The whole club behind us watching
Getting crazy almost made them wanna close their eyes
It was time I made it clear
So I whispered in his ear
I said brace yourself I'm about to blow your mind
You're not an emotional kind of girl
You know what you want
And I'ma give it to you
A very unapproachable kind of girl
I got what you need
And I'ma give it to you
This weak I've never seen her before
She's like an animal
She walked in and throw her clothes on the floor
I think she's highly flammable
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
She's like, She's like an animal
I'ma bad girl that can handle that
I put it down so crazy Maniac
Your toes curl up and your eyes roll back
Ain't nobody ever put it on ya like that
I bangs real hard like Jone's tracks
Don't catch feelings, don't call back
They wanna come and claim the cat
but ain't nobody taming that
So you can put away ya leash
I'm beast get it get it
Hey these suckers love sick
Cause I'm so sick wit it
And if you ain't know then you know now
This is how it's going down
Can't nobody hold me down
She's like, She's like an animal
This weak I've never seen her before
She's like an animal
She walked in and throw her clothes on the floor
I think she's highly flammable
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
S-S-S-She's so hard to Tame
T-T-T-Tame
Oh man
it's george duke
I...I've been a really big fan of yours for a long time
fame
fame
oh yeah
hey hey
everybody knows your name
Got me a fancy car
brand new game
got a lawyer on your side
Hoping that wind won't change the tide oh
fame
fame
a wonderful thang
If you don't let it get you in the rain
fame
make you feel like a king
and life you will never be the same
fame
for some it's the degree
something they feel but never ever see
some are living on borrowed time, yeah
An most can't say the reasons ????
fame
A treasure to unfold
Hoping it will last, yeah
Until you're old
fame
It will last a little while
'Cuz there's always some young thang waiting to try
fame
yeah
In it's own sweet way
It's the price you'll pay
For the love you give
Busted!
fame
fame
do you have top?
yes you do
come on baby
fame
fame
think about that
yeah
yeah
fame
same old thing
everything's alright
what we mean is all
Brain I see your brain and it hasn't choice
To became learned
In your brain intorelance n'ignorance
Have a solid place for operating
Your inherit those fucking forces
You're blind like a searcher of cave-mouses
My thoughts of mind that coming out
You're lost and roasted you have to goout
Another life isn't another
You don't see the light of our father
Your voice makes noise
But I used to live right there
Oh! Fame!
I hate some bullshit of your sources
So put your brain into the sea of progress
That is good to overpraise your system
'Couse you might change your deadly forces
You're blind like a searcher of cave-mouses
'Livin in your side dancin' on the right side
To flight all what I'm
I've been to New York City
And I walked the weakest roads.
Seen L.A. and its perfect salesman,
All dressed in holy robes.
And all that's left to say,
Is spread throughout this town.
You wanna get lost at the foot of my cross.
Then come on, baby.
And it's in your face,
Can read it clearly now.
Looks like I'm lost at the foot or your cross.
So come on save me.
I've been to Chicago
And don't think I haven't crossed the seas
Seen Milan and its model fashion.
It brings me to my knees.
I think I've come undone.
And all that's left to say,
Is spread throughout this town.
You wanna get lost at the foot of my cross.
Then come on, baby.
And it's in your face,
Can read it clearly now.
Looks like I'm lost at the foot or your cross.
So come on save me.
And all that's left to say,
Is spread throughout this town.
You wanna get lost at the foot of my cross.
Then come on, baby.
And it's in your face,
Can read it clearly now.
Looks like I'm lost at the foot or your cross.
So come on save me.
Work hard all your life. Gain a friend or two
'cause you know you might just need them
If your dreams are real.
Take time for yourself - find a special place
Or a time where they won't find you,
Something they can't steal.
Come in, have a chair. Man we love your sound
Yeah we love your hair. Come on boy,
Can you fill these shoes?
Step back, take a look. You could rule the world
With your style, your hooks. Come on boy,
You just can't refuse.
(Chorus)
Oh yeah here it comes.
Take a little more than the people give you.
Oh yeah, livin' like a game.
Oh no, there it goes.
Where is all the love that the people showed you?
Oh no where is all this fame?
I've seen the good times.
The limousines and cigars and fine wines
That only lead to the scars and hard times
That seem to come my way.
Payin' dues is a hard life.
Give a little more to the people who have made you.
What you are today.
I can see it
It's funny man
Cause it's like it's not going nowhere
And you gon' see it wherever there's struggle
[Once in a while I do look at you]
I see my pain in your eyes man
[To see that twinkle in your eyes]
So I know you're feelin' me
It's that twinkle man
That sign of struggle
I've seen it
In me
Cause everyday I can't help but see it
People ain't satisfied
And you're hatin' your 9 to 5
and Everybody wanna live another life
But ain't no length you go or mountain you climb
Not to better your days
All That would do is leave room for people to say
"I guess you're livin' better now
Share a little bit of that cheddar now"
Cause I remember days back when
A brother was hustlin' and robbin' too
I done tossed the baretta now
On a whole nother level now
Still I can't enjoy my fame
Unless my people doin' the same
And gettin' money too
[Once in awhile I couldn't look at you]
Oh once in awhile
[and see the twinkle in your eyes]
And I can see that you don't ever wanna struggle no more
[Once in awhile I couldn't look at you]
Once in awhile
[and see the twinkle in your eyes]
And I can see that you don't ever wanna cry no more
Cause every time you ask me, I'm grindin'
It shouldn't have to be that way
You shouldn't have to pay my way
I shouldn't have to want for a brighter day
Got a little little problem on the way
Bounty hunters checkin' state to state
Child support lady on your case
Not to mention tickets you ain't never paid
Oh what must I do
that's what you'll be askin'
God please hold it down for me
Don't let Satan get the hold of me
I'm tryin' to tell you it can happen to me too
But it happened a lot worse to my brother
Muhammad thank God he recovered
[Once in awhile I choose look at you]
Once in awhile
[and see the twinkle in your eyes]
And I can see that you never wanna struggle no more
[Once in awhile I choose look at you]
Look in your eyes
[and see the twinkle in your eyes]
And I can see that you don't ever wanna cry no more
[Once in awhile I choose look at you]
'Cause I see your pain now
'Cause I see your pain now
I can feel you strain now
And I can see you cryin'
And inside you're dyin'
We're no longer the same now
But you got to make change now
[Once in awhile I do look at you]
Once in awhile
[and see the twinkle in your eyes]
And I can see that you don't ever struggle no more
[Once in awhile I do look at you]
Once in awhile
[and see the twinkle in your eyes]
And I can see that you don't ever wanna cry no more
Don't wanna cry no more
And I can see
That you don't ever want to struggle no more
You're just a stupid girl
You really got a lot to learn
Start living again
Forget about remembering
You're such a stupid girl.
You're such a beautiful fish
Floppin' on the summer sand
Lookin' for the wave you missed
When another one is close at hand
You're such a stupid girl.
You're such a stupid girl.
I saw you in Mercedes Benz
Practicing self-defense
You got it pretty good I guess
I couldn't see your eyes
You're really stupid, girl.
You're such a stupid girl.
Ich sitze hier im Dunkeln, die Zeit steht still, ich denke nach,
all i want is you, don't you know that
forever loving you, don't you know that it's true
i'm leaving you tonight but don't listen if they say
that we'll never meet again in the land of make believe
we cannot lose the race, breaking the secret spells
they put on us, my love
we're far out of their reach, a million years ahead
they never understand the mysteries of love
here's the mysteries of love
give your body to the mysteries
tear down your uniforms
here's the mysteries of love
all i want to be, don't you know it
all we wanna be is free like the birds of the sea
we kiss the last good byes and are sailing with a smile
'cross the iron borderline that butterflies despise
we cannot lose at all
breaking the secret spells they put on us, my love
forever out of reach, a million dreams ahead
they'll never understand
the mysteries of love
In the silence of the side street
In the whisper of the night
From the darkness of the empty hours
To the early morning light
From the hustle down on main street
With all it's lights so bright
To the trucker on the highway
Pressing through the night
I can hear you heartbeat
I can hear you heartbeat
Girl, the sound of you is so sweet
I'm in a European disco
And it's thumping up the beat
There's a jukebox in a cafe
Where the younger ones can meet
We got freezing Coca-Cola
We got anything you want
I'm moving on that back beat
Girl, but it's you that sings the song
'Cos I can hear you heartbeat
I can hear you heartbeat
The sound of you is so sweet
And I'm sailing on your wind song
Oh, I can feel the summer breeze
You've got me walking on my tiptoes
You've got me standing on my knees
From the mills way down in Pittsburgh
To the clubs of gay Paris
No matter where I roam, girl,
You can always get to me
And I still hear your heartbeat
Yea I still hear your heartbeat
Girl, the sound of you is so sweet,
to me
And I still hear your heartbeat
Yea I still hear your heartbeat
Girl, the sound of you is so sweet,
to me
I. Magna Carta Overture (Instrumental)
II. Declaration
John The King of England
Duke of Normandy (Count of Aquitaine)
Spoke to all his subjects
Declaring freedom and reform in this present charter...
III. Status Quo
In the first place it is our will
Before we quarrel there are rights to instill
Upon our heirs, confirmed with grace
The English Church shall stand in faith
If any earl or baron dies
And owes us relief we will rectify
Our binding words to the sons under age:
We'll hold it in trust - your inheritance is saved.
The guardian of the land will now answer to us.
Assignable for husbandry and wardship.
The Treaty of The Magna Carta will ensure this.
IV. Reform
City of London have all your liberties
Free customs and furthermore; petition counsel
That no assessment shall reach into the pockets
Of the common man
We respect the rights of the common man
We must respect the rights of the common man.....
No witch hunt executions to be held in the shadows
No trivial crimes shall condemn one to the gallows
All evil customs, warrens, sheriffs, shall be abolished
All hostages will be released
In the the final hours of this decadence we must defeat
'Cause it's not too late for the future
Stand back - look around
It's a time for peace not a time for war or for judgement
Summon all, listen to my order!
This fifteenth day of June in Runnymeade
All must coincide as The Magna Carta is ratified.....
V. Restoration
Should a man transgress this charter
We'll judge in fairness with law and order
Time for the kingdom to be granted all these things
Wishing betterment for allies, with security.
Liberty of conscience is finally restored as The
Magna Carta is moving forward in this restoration
From such a young man his great awakenings has
saved our homeland.....
In a modern world we still must fight to learn the
lessons that prolong our plight
The history of those before should help us now but
we choose to ignore
Explore the new ground - discovery
We know the answers but no one sees
We are so close but we stand so far
From the restoration - the nearest star
The Hour of Restoration is now upon us
We measure the time all history to the present The
Magna Carta
Trust of the ancient living.
City of London have all your liberties, free customs
and furthermore
Petition counsel that no assessment shall reach into
the pockets of the common man.
We restored the rights of the common man
We have restored the rights of the common man...
It's love
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, my my
Well I drop myself on the cold cement
Hang my head 'cause my woman's bent
No lights on but I know that she's home
So I ring the bell another forty time
The neighbor dog made me lose my mind
Now I see her car slide down the road
It's love
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo , my my
I know how to get back to me
I know how to get back to me
Now I act as if I just got there
From doing important shit somewhere
But she don't seem impressed with me at all
So I decided as I stood
I'm done with this one now for good
But I know as soon as I get home
And see that I'm all by myself
I'm gonna pick up the phone
And tell her I would do anything to have her back again
'Cause that's love
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo , my my
I know how to get back to me
I know how to get back to me
I know how to get back to me
(got to get back to me)
I know how to get back to me
(got to get back to me)
I know how to get back to me
(got to get back to me)
I know how to get back to me
(got to get back to me)
I know how to get back
Harry: It won't be long
It won't be long
It won't because it can't be long
Before our dream comes true
Because you know I don't belong
And furthermore I shan't belong
To anyone but you
Larken: In a little while
Just a little while
You and I will be one two three four
In a little while I will see your smile
On the face of my son to be
Forever hand in glove
Is the way I have it planned
But I'll only stay in love
If the glove contains your hand
(original)
(In a velvet gown
I'll be coming down the aisle
And it's bound to seem as though
The waiting's only been a little in a little while)
{revival}
{Harry: I can see it all
Down to every small detail
So I wish you'd look around until you found
A castle in the neighborhood for sale
Larken (spoken) Oh I already have! It's tiny, only 27 rooms, and the moat's a mess, but we can pick it up for a sonnet!}
My time is at a premium
For soon the world will see me a
Maternal bride to be
I know I mustn't worry Harry
Still I wish you'd hurry Harry
Harry marry me!
Harry: In a little while
just a little while
You and I will be one two three four
In a little while I will see your smile
On the face of my son to be
{Both:} Forever hand in glove
Is the way I have it planned
But I'll only stay in love
If the glove contains your hand
Both: In a velvet gown you'll/I'll be coming down the aisle
And it's bound to seem as though
The waiting's only been a little in a little while
Do I ever cross your mind darling
Do you ever see
Some situation somewhere somehow
Triggers your memory
And do you ever wonder
What became of all the time
And darling, do I ever cross your mind
Do you ever want to know
If all dreams go on endlessly
Or do they just run down somehow
Gradually become the custody
Or that melancholy jaded by the time
And darling, do I ever, ever cross your mind
CHORUS:
Do I ever cross your mind
When you're lonely
Or does that only happen to me
Darling don'tcha ever wonder
What became of all the time
And darling, do I ever, ever cross your mind
Chorus
Everyday
Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday, it's a gettin' faster,
Everyone says go ahead and ask her,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday seems a little longer,
Every way, love's a little stronger,
Come what may, do you ever long for
True love from me?
Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday, it's a gettin' faster,
Everyone says go ahead and ask her,
Love like yours will surely c]ome my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Everyday seems a little longer,
Every way, love's a little stronger,
Come what may, do you ever long for
True love from me?
Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Love like yours will surely come my way.
find deep within the old memory coat
a cricket bag you ate from
its sweet smiling apology
acceptance awaits you
don't be afraid to cherish it
look it up in the bookmobile
look it up in the gun rack
in the magazine rack, and the map
for it is only after the fence comes down
that the cartoon bubble explodes
and the new party begins
invitation only in stealing a senator's suitcase
let them out and dance for the ant-god
like scary magnets
to pounce upon command
upon the man, the man called aerodynamics
Shady Sadie (Shady Sadie)
serving lady (serving lady)
Don't pay her no mind, no
She'll take ev'ry dime
She's got a one-a-day lunch,
good for all the bunch, yeah.
HOT LUNCH, YEEAAHHH.
Macaroni and baloni, tuna fish, our favorite dish. Hot lunch, hey
If it's yellow, then it's jello.If it's blue,it could be stew, oo, oo.
She's got a one-a-day lunch,
good for all the bunch,hey now.
Hot,hot lunch, oh,oh,no
In times of trouble
When all the world seems, oh, so dark
And I can't find a way to cope
When deep down inside me
I can no longer feel the spark
When I can see no ray of hope
When I am lost
What makes it all worthwhile
One simple thought to make me smile
These are my children
My saving grace
I see my calling
In every face
These are my children
And I thank God
For choosing me, for choosing me
I wasn't blessed
As other women in this life
To have my own, to be mother and wife
But I was blessed
Beyond where wildest dreams can reach
For I have the privilege
Yes, the privilege to teach
These are my children
My saving grace
I see my calling
In every face
These are my children
My family tree
And I thank God
And I thank God
Yes, I thank God
For choosing me
For choosing me
I wanna be bad and not even care
I wanna go out of my head somewhere
I wanna go crazy like the dogs in the yard
I wanna cut the rope but it's getting so much harder
I think I'll play poker stay out every night
Throw stones at the water in the morning light
I wanna be lazy like the dogs in the yard
Why can't I fly tonight? Why can't I sleep all morning?
I'm going out of my mind tonight
That's where I'm going, that's where I'm going
Gonna have a good time, before it's too late
Come on, baby, let's go uptown and celebrate, gonna celebrate
We're gonna run crazy like the dogs in the yard
We're gonna fly tonight, we're gonna sleep all morning
We're going out of our minds tonight
Hold Your Dream
Countless hours of learning more
Countless hours of knowing less
Can't look behind you
You have to look ahead.
So many doubts running through your mind
All the excuses
Don't have the time
All the rejection you have to leave behind
Leave it all behind
Hold your dreams
Don't ever let it go
Be yourself
And let the world take notice
You'll find strength
When people being you down
They will see
If you will only, only believe
Someway, Somehow (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Don't give up now (Don't give up)
Don't be afraid to succeed (to succeed, yeah)
Someway, somehow (Come on, everybody)
The time is right now (It's our time, yeah)
Don't be afraid to succeed (to succeed, yeah!)
Hold your dreams
Don't ever let it go
Be yourself
And let the world take notice
You'll find strength
When people bring you down
They will see
Baby you look at me and tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time, I'll make you forget the rest
I've got more in me and you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hand
Don't you know who I am?
Remember my name
(Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
(High)
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
(Fame)
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
(Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
(Remember, remember, remember, remember)
(Remember, remember, remember, remember)
Baby hold me tight, 'cause you can make it right
You can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all I've got to give
Baby I'll be tough, too much is not enough, no
I'll grab your heart till it breaks
You got what it takes
(Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
(High)
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
(Fame)
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
(Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
(Remember, remember, remember, remember)
(Remember, remember, remember)
(Fame)
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
(Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
(Remember, remember, remember, remember)
(Remember, remember, remember, remember)
Remember my name
(Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
(Fame)
I'm gonna learn how to fly
(High)
I feel it coming together
(Fame)
People will see me and cry
(Remember my name)
(Fame)
Think of how to use it
Use it on the stage
Think of Katherine Hepburn
Think of Gerry Page
Think of all the feelings
Wasted on this creep
Think of how you could use them
Think of Meryl Streep
Why should I be crazy
Spilling out my guts
Make a big explosion
Go completely nuts
These are my emotions
Mine alone to keep
I know I could use them
Think of Meryl Streep
Inside me there's a world of color and light
Nothing has to be wrong
Nothing has to be right
Inside me are treasures that glow
An actress's job is to know what she's willing to show
And then hide all the rest so no-one's the wiser
Save up all the best, like Midas the miser
Keep every moment under control
Always in charge, playing a role
Smile and shrug your shoulders
Make believe it's fine
Come up with an answer
Or a witty line
Though your heart is breaking
Never start to weep
Someday you can use it
Someday you can use it
Someday you can use it
Don't need no rich bitch, to tell me which
Fork to use, I paid my dues
In a rat-trap building called New York
Livin' off beans, greens, and pork
In a basement, tenement,
No one's got to tell me what it meant
To be black, Jack
Ace of spades
All the car-wash washers and day-work maids
Can't wash it off, never fades,
It's who you are until you're dead
Now ain't that a kick upside the head?
Yeah, I know about Pryor and Portier,
Can't get higher than Sugar Ray
Muhammed Ali and Doctor J
And 90% of the N.B.A.
Reggie Jackson, Jesse Jackson,
Michael and Mahaliah Jackson,
Now what's that got to do with me?
On the street the only thing I see is:
Crack dealers, pocketbook stealers,
Coke snorters, Time Square daughters,
Eight-year olds who dance for quarters,
And tokes, and two-line blows,
New Adidas and stereos!
That's us! That's it!
What's your reason to kill or not?
This has come a long way,
Too fake for the season, is it real or not?
Totally in this i would stay!
Too many sensations now for a good feeling,
I'll take a step back.
Let's go under and hold our breath.
Who's got the reasons now?
In one little mouth it goes,
Never will surface!
Too many sensations now for a good feeling,
I'll take a step back.
Too many sensations now for if to be so real!
Too many sensations now for a good feeling,
I'll take a step back.
It's all in the game
Now it's up to you
You just have to believe
There's a place where
Our dreams come true
Everybody got something
Something that is deep within
It's hard to find
Oh, but stretch your mind
You built your dream
You built them high
There's no reason
You can't fly
You've gotta go
Oh, it's time for show
There might be times
When you ask yourself why
There will come a day
Your whole body cries
It's all in the game
Now it's up to you
If you want to succeed
There's no easy way out
It's all in the game
People win or loose
You just have to believe
There's a place where
Our dreams come true
Oohh
It's all in the game
Everyday you try to find
A different way to cross that line
It's up to you
You know what to do
Winter, summer, spring or fall
Just keep your spirit through it all
The burning light
Oh, it shines so bright
There might be times
When you ask yourself why
There will come a day
Your whole body cries
It's all in the game
Now it's up to you
If you want to succeed
There's no easy way out
It's all in the game
People win or loose
You just have to believe
There's a place where
Our dreams come true
Oohh
You feel a fire deep within
Now you know in your heart you can win
Through the tears and through the rain
You kept this fire, you live this flame
It's all in the game
Now it's up to you
If you want to succeed
There's no easy way out
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah...
It's all in the game
Now it's up to you
If you want to succeed
There's no easy way out
It's all in the game
(Oh, yeah)
People win or loose
You just have to believe
There's a place where
Our dreams come true
It's all in the game
Now it's up to you
If you want to succeed
There's no easy way out
It's all in the game
(Yeah, yeah)
People win or loose
You just have to believe
There's a place where
Our dreams come true
Oohh
We have arrived at a moment in our lives
When the future passes into out hands
We can find out, are we really strong enough
To fulfill what the future demands
We can stand on the edge
And look out into space
And be awed
By the wonders we see
We can all make a pledge
That the whole human race
Will become what we want it to be
Bring on tomorrow
Let it shine
Like the sun coming up on a beautiful day
It's yours and mine
We can make a difference
It's not too late
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Long, long ago in a world we never made
We were children who were making believe
Closing our eyes
We were travelers in air
To a land we would not want to leave
But the fairy tale land, fades away as we grow
And we all have to say our goodbyes
And we now understand, that this world that we know
Can be ours if we open our eyes
Bring on tomorrow
Let it shine
Like the sun coming up on a beautiful day
It's yours and mine
We can make a difference
It's not too late
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Bring on tomorrow
It's not too late
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Bring on tomorrow
Let it shine
Like the sun coming up on a beautiful day
It's yours and mine
We can make a difference
It's not too late
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Bring on tomorrow
Oh Lord give me a sign
Give me a call on your heavenly line
Tell me, oh Lord, what it is that you want of me
Keep me from eatin' whatever's in front of me
Oh Lord give me a sign
Oh Lord give her a sign
Give her a call on your heavenly line
Call me up, call me up on your heavenly line
Tell her oh Lord, what it is that you want of her
Tell me oh save me
Keep her from eatin' whatever's in front of her
Save me from eatin' whatever's in front of me
Oh Lord, give me the answer
Ooh, ah
Save me from being the world's fattest dancer
You were the honest friend
I was the great pretender
I hid my feeling to the end
Now I want to say
What it means to me
How I could ever be the same
Without you
The way I know I really feel about you
The way I know I'll always feel about you
Why can't we
Why can't we
Why can't we try to play a love scene
We don't need the violins to play a love scene
Where we see how love begins
Find a way to start and learn to play the part
A perfect scene from a play unknown
Let's play a love scene
Let's play a love scene
We don't need the violins to play a love scene
Where we see how love begins
Find a way to start and learn to play the part
A perfect scene from a play unknown
Let's play a
Let's play a
Out in L.A. and broke on the ticket that this fellow sent me
One change of clothes in the suitcase my girlfriend Anna lent me
I stayed for awhile in his place, runnin' with this crowd of his
Partyin' day after day, meetin' everybody in the biz
Oh, they know how to do it in L.A.
They know how to make it seem brand new
Though it's true what they say, that it's only a dream
And a dream is a wish you wish for you
In L.A the dream may come true
After the booze and the coke
The visions of the blue Pacific
After the two hundredth time
I told him he was just terrific
I woke up one late afternoon
And couldn't tell quite where I was
Left-over taste in my mouth
And the morning after buzz
I packed my bag and split and found myself a dancin' job
Worked the bar for tips and stripped for every lonely slob
Counted every single minute as the hours went by
Then fell in bed and cried til there were no more tears to cry
You try to stop the thought from comin'
That it never ends
You think about how far you are
From home and friends
You get thru one day at a time
You find a way of stayin' numb
Don't look in the mirror
To see what you've become
But they know how to do it in L.A.
They know hot to make it seem so new
Though it's true what they say
That's it's only a dream
And a dream is a wish you wish for you
In L.A. the dream may come true
Yes, they know how to do it in L.A.
They know how to make it seem brand new
Though it's true what they say, that it's only a dream
And a dream is a wish you wish for you
In L.A, in L.A., in L.A. the dreams may all come...
Yes, they know how to do it in L.A.
They know that somewhere the sky is blue
So smile when they say 'It's only a dream'
And you'll get what is comin' to you
I want to make magic
I want to be bigger than I am
I want to make people really care
Really give a damn
I want to make magic
I want to breathe fire on the stage
I want to make every single line
Jump right off the page
I want to do it all from A to Z
I want to do 'The Lion in Winter'
Brecht and Harold Pinter
Sophocles, Eugene O'Neill
I want to really see what I can be
Another Jason Robards or DeNiro
Play a tragic hero
Go for it all and really show the way I feel
I want to make magic
I want to electrify the place
I want to be more than just a fool
With make-up on his face
I want to make magic
Magic
This ain't no
Movie show
Playin' in the theater
Or a video
Fantasy
I was always hot to see
On the T.V.
I'm so hot, hot to trot
I can hardly wait to show them what I got
Wonder who'll come out shinin' like a jewel
In the 'Fame' school
Here we are
So bizarre
This is where they show you
How to be a star
I can't wait
I can't even concentrate
I just pulsate
Class to class, try'n' to pass
Learnin' who the teachers are who bust your ass
Feelin' small, feeling up against the wall
During roll call
I'm alive and I will survive
Show the world that I can take it
When I hit the heights
Put my name in lights
Show the world that I can
Make it by doin'
doin', doin' doin'
By doin' hard work
By doin' hard work
By doin' hard work
Everyday, I'll wake up in the mornin'
Splash my face to keep myself from yawnin'
Get dressed and get my bones together
Open the window to check out the weather
Then like I seen a ghost, man
I'll be movin' my feet
Just like the postman in the cold or the heat
No time to talk and I go dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Lunchtime is music to my ears
I'm down on Wallstreet with all the financiers
South Street Seaport I am the action
The number one tourist attraction
Hip hop to the West Side
Where I do myself proud
The West Side is the best side for drawin' a crowd
The cabbies squawk when I go dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Uptown I do my boogaloo
Stoppin' traffic on Seventh Avenue
Nighttime the corner to be on
Times Square under the neon
For my finale
I'll be doin' my thing
In Shubert Alley
They're gonna crown me the king
Of all New York
Because I'm dancin', dancin', dancin' woo
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
You know what it's like
When you wake up in the mornin' and it's hard,
Standin' up straight at attention
Like the changin' of the guard?
Or how it is in a porno shop
When you put you quarter in the slot,
And you try to look cool
So nobody knows that you're hot?
You go to a club and you're high
On some fine marijuana
And the singer of the band
Copped all of her moves from Madonna .... and you wanna
Or late at night, you're home in bed alone,
And it's cold out,
And put your hand where it's warm
While you open up Miss January's fold-out
Well, that's how it is, when she's around,
And I can't, no I can't
I can't keep it down!
I can't keep it down when that girl's around
I can't keep it under my control
I can't k-k-keep it down, no, no I can't!
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna rock and roll!
I'm thinkin' 'bout the time in my life
When I first learned what cryin' was,
The first time I ever had to come face to face
With what dyin' was,
The relatives gathered all in black
To mourn for my great aunt Juanita,
When who comes through the door to pay her respects
But our cousin Conchita,
The tears in her eyes only made them look
Even more Spanish,
As I watched her I swear I could feel the floor
Under me vanish,
She goes to them all, then she fin'ly
Comes over to me,
And she kisses my cheek and I lower my eyes,
I can hardly believe what I see!
'Cause I'm lookin' down the front of her gown,
And I can't, no, I can't
I can't keep it down!
I can't keep it down when that girl's around
I can't keep it under my control
I can't k-k-keep it down, no, no I can't!
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna rock and roll!
Somthimes I wonderWhere I've beenWho I amDo I fit it in
Make beliving is hard alone
out here on my own
We're always provingwho we arealways reaching for that rising star
to guide me farand shine me home
out here on my own
WHEN I'M DOWN AND FEELING BLUE
I CLOSE MY EYES SO I CAN BE WITH YOU
OH BABY BE SRONG FOR MEBABY BELONG TO ME
HELP ME THROUGH HELP ME NEED YOU
Until the morning
sun apears
making light of all my tearI dry the tears I've never shown
out here on my own
BUT WHEN I'M DOWN AND FEELING BLUEI CLOSE MY EYES...
Somethimes i wonder where i've been
who I amdo I fit it in
I may not win but I can't be thrown
out here on my own
Pray, pray, pray
I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.
Pray, pray, pray
I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.
Pray, pray, pray
I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.
Pray, pray
Pray, pray
Pray, pray
Pray, pray
I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.
Say boy done changed
That's all I hear when I come around
Cause it's source magazine and the bt
walk around like it's that nigga
At least tell me where you been
Pitching all your friend call 100 ties
What you hollywood again
Gone off soft boy you used to be the man
Ain't try heads on, but you're heart broken again
Think you're feeling yourself, boy you're filling yourself
Tattered up yoru body, what you did to yourself?
Come a time in your life when you get tired of the cards you've been dealt
So you dealing yourself
Hoe you got some opinions, ain't nobody got time for that
Main reason why I duck your could be phone call
Fuck y'all niggas this is brooklyn gun shot
Say boy done changed
That's all I hear when I come around
Cause it's source magazine and that double xl
Got me nominated, shit is complicated
I'm intoxicated, cause I was concentrated with that henny
Balling on these niggas like I'm tryina win an emi
Yeah I got plenty these lord need demi
And I need like 30 millies before I leave my 20's
Hold up, let me slow that, south side nigga, I'ma hold that
Her ass crazy, need prozac,
White diamonds on but I'm pro black
I've been balling, they know that
My jesus piece is a proback
My bracer flicking like Kodak
My color blue like a toll past nigga
I work my ass out, yeah you niggas hate it
I ran through them red lights, all you niggas waited
Oh you got an opinion
Ain't nobody got time for that
That's why I leave my condo top low,
Capo, my minds on nigga, yo chicago, what
Let me diss you on a hand out
Want me to have your mens out
Said a nigga got flow, said that the young go
Oh yeah, but you got it all planned out
So you hitting up me for the first
Yeah I do it just to put em in the hearse
Hit them with the 16, put em all front screen
Now the whole world witness I getting this work
You ain't come where I come from
So you can't do what I did
You can't speak on none of that real shit
Cause that real shit you ain't live
Niggas claim rich when they pockets on lean
Working 9 to 5 talking bout they got bricks
Where your facts at, boy you like that
Go put away your imaginary stacks
Bucnh of chief keefs in the street with the banger
And I'm always good in my hood
Cause I just stood the same and ain't change up
I'm paid in full, my shit on 1000
Tryina put you on man fuck em cowards
I've seen the lightning flashing, I've heard the thunder roll
I've felt sin's breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul
I've heard the voice of Jesus telling me to fight on
He promised never to leave me, no, never alone
Never alone, never alone, oh, never
Never alone, never alone
He'll never leave you alone
The world's fierce winds are blowing, temptations sharp and keen
I felt a peace in knowing my Savior stands between
He stands to shield me from danger when earthly friends are gone
He promised never to leave me, no, never alone
Never alone, never alone, oh, never
Never alone, never alone
He'll never leave you alone
He'll never leave you alone
When in affliction's valley, I'm treading the road with care
My Savior helps me to carry a cross too heavy to bear
My feet entangled with briers, ready to cast me down
He'll never leave you alone
When in affliction's valley, I'm treading the road with care
My Savior helps me to carry a cross too heavy to bear
My feet entangled with briers, ready to cast me down
He'll never leave you alone
Never, never, never
Never, never, never
Never, never, never
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
I worked so hard to get me a man
Don?t try to take him away
I love my man like nobody can
Don?t try or you?re gonna pay
You?ve been gettin? too close
You?ve been goin? too far
Who do you think you are?
Some kind of star
You?re headin? for a red light
Hot night, satisfy, dynamite
Red light, hot night, satisfy, dynamite
Red light
(Red?s the color of heart)
Hot light
(Hot's the fever I got)
Satisfy
(Red enough it could burn you)
Red light
(Red is all I can see)
Hot light
(Hot is how it?ll be)
Satisfy
(Red for you if you mess with me)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
Now I don?t want you hangin? around
My man is too hard to hold
But if you plan on hangin? around
I plan on stoppin? you cold
'Cause I?m ready to rock
And I?m ready to roll
I?m raging out of control
Look out below
You?re headin? for a red light
Hot night, satisfy, dynamite
A red light, hot night, satisfy, dynamite
Red light
(Red?s the color)
Hot light
(Hot's the fever I got)
Satisfy
(Red enough it would burn you)
Red light
(Red is all I can see)
Hot light
(Hot is how it?ll be)
Satisfy
(Red for you if you mess with me)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
(Don?t mess with me, now baby)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
(You?re gonna drive me crazy)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
(Don?t mess with me now)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
(Don?t mess with me)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
(You got that, you got that fever, oh, oh)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
(You got that fever)
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo, doo
Doo doo, doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo
Red light, hot light, satisfy, dynamite
Red light
(I?m talkin? ?bout a real red light)
Hot night
(I?ll give you such a hell of a fight, yeah)
Satisfy
(Don?t you try to take my man)
Dynamite
(I wanna hold on long as I can, yeah)
I worked so hard to get me a man
Don?t try to take him away
I love my man like nobody can
Don?t try or you?re gonna pay
I?m ready to rock
I?m ready to roll
I?m raging out of control
Look out below
You?re headin? for a red light
Hot night, satisfy, dynamite
A red light, hot night, satisfy, dynamite
Red light
(My man I wanna)
Hot light
(Hold on just as long as I can, I said a red light)
Satisfy
(A hot, hot night, baby, do it now)
Red light, hot light, satisfy
Red light, hot light, satisfy
Red light, hot light, satisfy
Baby, look at me
And tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time I'll make you forget the rest
I got more in me
And you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hands
Don't you know who I am
Remember my name, fame
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly high
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry, fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame, fame
I'm gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
Remember, remember
Remember, remember
Remember, remember
Remember, remember
Baby, hold me tight
'Cause you can make it right
You can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all I've got to give
Baby, I'll be tough
Too much is not enough
I can ride your heart till it breaks
Ooh, I got what it takes
Fame, I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly high
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry, fame
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame, fame
I'm gonna live forever
[Verse 1: Amber Rose]
Scrutinize, being blind
Excited by all the lights
The question wasn't made up
Like these rumors were made up
Can't shop for clothes or buy some cigs
Without paparazzi waiting for a flick (I see you)
This is a new situation
Now you're an overnight sensation
[Hook]
You're not ready for the fame
Ooooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
You're not ready for the fame
Ooooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 2: Amber Rose]
Can't deny it's just fly
Private jets flying high
Rockin'rockin' things you won't see
Tell 'em made by Givenchy
Three years ago, just a girl
Now your name is known around the world
This is a new situation
Now you're an overnight sensation
[Hook 2]
Now you're ready for the fame
Ooooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Now you're ready for the fame
Ooooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 3: Wiz Khalifa]
And you made it this year
Coming up so they hate it
Fly first class so they could get mad
You heard what they have to say but you paid it
Now you're busting out, doing your thing
In your face, cuss 'em out
Brag cause you're the one that they fuss about
You's a bad little mother shut your mouth, cause…
[Bridge]
Everything you say will
Will and can be used against you
Everything you say will
Will and can be used against you
Everything you say will
Will and can be used against you
Everything you say
It's all because of the F-A-M-E (F-A-M-E…)
You're not ready
You're not ready for the fame
Now you're ready for the fame
[Hook]
F-A-M-E, F-A-M-E, F-A-M-E, F-A-M-E
F-A-M-E, F-A-M-E
Baby look at me
And tell me what you see.
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time, I'll make you forget the rest.
I got a story, and you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hand
Don't you know who I am?
Chorus:
Remember my name (Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly (High)
I feel it coming together
People will see me and die (Fame)
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame (Fame)
I'm gonna live forever
Baby, remember my name
Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember,
Remember, Remember, Remember, Remember
Baby hold me tight
And you can make it right.
You can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all I got.
Baby I'm in love
Too much is not enough
I surround your heart to embrace
You know I got what it takes.
Repeat chorus
[Sample from "Trespass":]
"You don't know nothing do you?
That's the beauty of gold
It never tarnishes
Lasts forever, too
You can melt it down, pound it, twist it, piss on it
But it's always the same gold
It was here long before we were and it'll be here a long time after we're gone
I bet you a lot of men have died for the gold that's just in this one piece"
[Verse 1:]
If you cry under fire then you wasn't built for war
If a pimp take you girl then your girl was never yours
Mental kickboxer, still test jaws
I'm Grandmaster, Grimm Reaper
Feds snooping at door like Mr. Roper
Monitored cause talented like Mr. Ripley
State frustrated, hated, can't get me
The Gingerbread Man but for short call me Gingy
Suicidal, jump right in a glass of milk
I'm made of dough so watch a nigga swell
I could never fall apart cause mad is the flow
You could never ever take my crown, I'll kill you at a show
Hit stars with guns, make 'em see stars
Hit cops with dum-dums, trying to be smart
Gotta lay him down, didn't know he was a narc
Gingerbread man but I have a stone heart
Payback extortion from fraternal order
Informant sent letter to D.A. with tracing paper
With invisible ink, trapped in magic library
I wanna scream but it's a secret indictment
Judge whistle Dixie from excitement
The law is a lefty, so where the rights went?
Pain on display for world like David Blaine
True crime stories but they think I entertain
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money fuck the fame
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money fuck the fame
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money fuck the fame
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money, I want the money, I want the money
[Verse 2:]
Are you down with so and so?
What's your gimmick?
Nothing, my life is lyrics so I spit it
When murder is something that you become accustomed to
Taking a life just don't fuck with you
House niggas faceless, buried in field of potters
Field niggas found shelter, now squatters
If eyes are the window to soul, then why am I squinting?
My face is on the money that I'm printing, strike a pose
Wanna take life, strike my foes
I rolled through Hell and it froze
My halo got burnt but it still glows
I'm not on my feet but I stay on my toes
If we ain't cool then that's the way it goes
Forget all the kid shit fucking with a grown man
Niggas running around fantasizing like they're Peter Pan
Your life's a scam and I'm a fuck it up like Neverland
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money fuck the fame
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money fuck the fame
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money fuck the fame
A man with a dream with plans to make cream, cream, cream
I want the money, I want the money, I want the money
All that other shit is overrated
I want the money
Cash
[Sample from "Trespass":]
"I don't know what this stuff is anymore
God's gold, our gold, fool's gold
What we can do is take as many of them as we can and hope for the best"
"What about trading the gold to 'em for our safety? "
"They'd kill us anyway
I would if I was them
Truth is Vince I don't see any way we're gonna get out of here quiet"
My heart don't want to believe
That after all this, girl you will do this to me!
But I was so blind not to see,
I don't have what you want,
But could it be what you need?
Hey, gave this love thing a chance,
I'm putting my all, cause I ain't want no one else
But now I clearly can see
You did what love gonna do, just wanna be seen
You used me, girl!
Chorus:
Oh, all it sees my chain and a fancy face,
Girl, you only love the fame
Everything that I bring
Cause you play me baby, only love my fame
All it sees my chain and a fancy face,
Girl, you only love the fame
Everything that I bring
Cause you play me baby, only love my fame
I put my heart in your hand,
You played with my mind
Made me the less of a man.
..could I ever be
... you took it from me, hey!
I gave this love thing a chance
I put in my all, cause I ain't want no one else!
But now I clearly can see
You did what love girl, you just wanna be seen
You used me, girl!
Chorus:
Oh, all it sees my chain and a fancy face,
Girl, you only love the fame
Everything that I bring
Cause you play me baby, only love my fame
All it sees my chain and a fancy face,
Girl, you only love the fame
Everything that I bring
Cause you play me baby, only love my fame
I gave this love thing a chance
I put in my all, cause I don't want no one else!
But now I clearly can see
You did what love girl, you just wanna be seen
You used me, girl!
(Verse 1)
They was told not to ride in Patty's +Hearse+
and stay out of Charles' +Manson+
Took Abraham's +Lincoln+ through the Todd +Bridges+ espansion
Willis +Reid+s a map that marks the spot showin
On his left George +Burns+ a blunt William's holdin
Tara +Bank+ed the money that Chaka +Khan+ed the poor
Alicia +Key+ed his car for givin Melbourne +Moore+
For the Redd +Foxx+ who bought off the block, but though twice
As Debora +Cox+ the gun 'cause she beat Kelly's +Price+
When Rosa +Park+ed the truck on the farm that Kim +Fields+
Linda +Tripp+ed for tryna to walk in Lauryn's +Hills+
Water dripped outta Farrah's +Fawcett+ in the glass
She was "Superfly", Curtis +Mayfield+ her ass
Chris +Tucker+ to a show, Ted +Turner+ to a hoe
Robert +Diggs+ the beat, but ain't feelin the flow
But he signed it fast, for half of Johnny's +Cash+
+Nia Long+ed for the album to drop, cameras flashed
Tom +Sawyer+ at the Lucielle +Ball+ up at the foyer
He confronted Richard +Pryor+ to hiring his lawyer
Suge's +Knight+ removed the rook off the board
Donna +King+ was checked and Al +Sharpton+ the sword
"Wettin cream, I aint wettin fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
(Verse 2)
The saints marched in, Kurtis +Blow+ing his horn
Tom +Cruise+d the boulevard, Chris +Rock+ed the song
For the hundredth time, they pressed rewind to the beginning
They toast to the rhyme, the juice spilt from John's +Lennon+
They took her to Elizabeth +Taylor+ to dry clean
The lone seamstress, who was schemin on Al's +Green+
You know they shoot for the stars and buckwild
Like the kids in the yard who play with +Jane's Child+
A beautician laced Erykah's +Badu+
Sean +Comb+ed through the evidence, just to get a clue
The needle in the haystack, from outta earth this kid
The tiger would kill him once thrown in Brad's +Pitt+
Jesse +Owen+ the money from the weed Bubba +Sparxxx+
They was journeys seen far as he walked in Dick's +Clark+
Jeffery +Lyons+ stuck with a thorn from George's +Bush+
Paul +Pierce+d in the heart as the crowd pushed
Acting alone... Drew +Barrymore+ bones
of the victims, three blocks from Jim's +Brownstone+
They shared the same bowl, he caught Natalie's +Cole+d
The producer, threw the butter on Esther's +Rolle+
Dempsey +Russel+ed him down, got his jaw wide
In a instant, Brooke +Shields+ him from the gunfire
Angie +Stone+d him to death, with those vocals
Keith +Sweat+ from the workout, just from runnin local
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
(Verse 3)
Larry's +Bird+ flew outta Nicholas' +Cage+
Joe +Tex+ messages from Satchel's +Paige+
Betty +Wright+ letters with ink from Sean's +Penn+
Infinite bars, you couldn't tell where the song end
Glenn +Close+ enough to quickly duck the tapes
Richard +Gere+ ripped while he was climbin Bill +Gates+
He was a southerner, posing as a, native New Yorker
The Jason +Kidd+ took his first steps in Jimmy's +Walker+
He stayed on line chattin with rap celebs
Used Bernie's +Mack+ to search Veronica's +Webb+
It cost them their life for the advice you gave
Now Pete +Rose+ lay on Vanessa's +Redgrave+
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
"The place where stars are born"
"With CREAM I ain't with the fame"
"Fame is the measure"
"Rap celebs"
