G      G
G      G
Lay...ser  
G     G
yeh...yee
G                             G
(Haters in the building) YEE!

[Chorus]
         G                D/F#
It's alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        Bm7
all night, till the morning we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am                             D
jus' remember when you come up, the show goes on!
   G                  D/F#
alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        Bm7
all night, till the morning we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am                             D
jus' remember when you come up, the show goes on..


[Verse 1]
          G                         D
Have you ever had the feeling that you was being had
           Em
Don't that shit that make you mad
      D                           C
They treat you like a slave, with chains all on your soul,
        D                              C
and put whips up on your back, they be lyin' through they teeth
        D
hope you slip up off your path
        G
I don't switch up I just laugh
       D
put my kicks up on they desk
    Em                          D
unaffected by they threats, than get busy on they ass
           C
see that's how that ChiTown made me
        D
That's how my daddy raised me
      C                                 D
that glittering may not be gold, don't let nobody play me
G                          D
if you are my homeboy, you never have to pay me
   Em                             D
Go on and put your hands up, when times are hard you stand up
C                       D
L-U-P the man, cause a brand that the fans trust
   C                           D
so even if they ban us they'll never slow my plans up!

[Chorus]
     G               D/F#
Alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        Bm7
all night, till the morning we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am
jus' remember when you come up
     D
the show goes on!
     G                D/F#
Alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        Bm7
all night, till the morning we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am
jus' remember when you come up
     D
the show goes on!

[Verse 2]
G
One in the air for the people that ain't here
D
Two in the air for the father that's there
Em
Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
D
Four for the kids who don't wanna be there
C
None for the niggas trying to hold them back
D                                             
Five in the air for the teacher not scared to
C
tell those kids thats livin' in the ghetto that the 
D
n-ggas holdin back that the World is theirs!
G                              D
Yeah yeah, the world is yours, I was once that little boy
Em
Terrified of the World
D
Now I'm on a World tour
C                          C
I will give up everything, even start a world war
C                                   D
for these ghetto girls and boys I'm rappin' round’ the World for!
G                   D                    Em
Africa to New York, Haiti then I detour, Oakland out to Auckland
D
Gaza Strip to Detroit,
C
say hip-hop only destroy
D
tell em look at me, boy!
   C                                  D
I hope your son don't have a gun and that would be a D-boy

[Chorus]
     G                D/F#
Alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        D/B
all night, till the morning we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am                             D
just remember when you come up, the show goes on!
     G                D
Alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        D/B
all night, till the morning we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am                              D
just remember when you come up, the show goes on!

[Verse 3]
      G
So no matter what you been through
   D
no matter what you into
    Em                           D
no matter what you see when you look outside your window
C
brown grass or green grass
D
picket fence or barbed wire
C
Never ever put them down
D
you just lift your arms higher
G
raise 'em till your arms tired
D
Let em know you're there
         Em                                D
That you strugglin' and survivin' that you gonna persevere
      C                     D
Yeah, ain't no body leavin', no body goin' home
      C                              D
even if they turn the lights out the show is goin' on!

[Chorus]
     G                D/F#
Alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        Bm7
all night, till the morning we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am                             D
just remember when you come up, the show goes on!
     G                D
Alright, already the show goes on
     Em                        Bm7
all night, till the mornin' we dream so long
    C                      D    
anybody ever wonder, when they would see the sun up
     Am                              D
just remember when you come up, the show goes on!
N.C.
(the show goes on, the show goes on, the show goes on...)