Lupe Fiasco – The Show Goes On

Produced by Kane Beatz

This afternoon, Lupe Fiasco premiered his new single from Lasers ,”The Show Goes On”, via Ustream at the Atlantic Records offices.  Pretty catchy tune.  It’s about time somebody flipped that Modest Mouse joint.

Lupe also stated he plans to kick-off his Generation Lasers tour in Chicago where he will premiere all of the new material from Lasers. He also refuted claims that he’ll be joining Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music  label, explaining that it’s better to be a General than a Soldier.  Agreed.

The track is available for purchase right now here.  Sorry folks, it’s stream only on FSD.

Lupe Fiasco – The Show Goes On [Emperor Music]

Related: Someone has already typed up the lyrics (no really) which can be found after the jump…

Kane is in the building
(Let’s go)

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on

Have you ever had the feelin’ that you was bein’ had?
Don’t that shit there make you mad? They treat you like a slave
Put chains all on your soul and put whips up on your back
They be lyin’ through they teeth, hope you slip up off your path
I don’t switch up, I just laugh, put my kicks up on they desk
Unaffected by they threats, then get busy on they ass
See, that how that Chi-town made me, that’s how my daddy raised me
That glitterin’ may not be gold, don’t let nobody play me
If you are my homeboy, you’ll never have to pay me
Go’n and put your hands up, when times is hard, you stand up
L-u-p the man, cuz, the brand that the fans trust
So even if they ban us, they’ll never slow my plans up

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on

One in the air for the people ain’t here
Two in the air for the father that’s there
Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
Four for the kids that don’t wanna be there
None for the niggas tryna hold them back
Five in the air for the teachers not scared
To tell those kids that’s livin’ in the ghetto
That the niggas holdin’ back that the world is theirs
Yeah, the world is yours, I was once that little boy
Terrified of the world, now I’m on a world tour
I will give up everything, even start a world war
For these ghetto girls and boys I’m rappin’ ’round the world for
Africa to New York, Haiti, then I detour
Oakland out to Auckland, Gaza Strip to Detroit
Say hip-hop only destroy, tell ‘em look at me, boy
I hope your son don’t have a gun and never be a d-boy

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on

So no matter what been through, no matter what you into
No matter what you see when you look outside your window
Brown grass or green grass, picket fence or barbed wire
Never ever put them down, you just lift your arms higher
Raise ‘em ’til your arms tired, let ‘em know you here
That you struggling, survivin’, that you gon’ persevere
Ain’t nobody leavin’, nobody goin’ home
Even if they turn the lights out, the show is goin’ on

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on

All right, already
The show goes on
All night ’til the morning
We drink so long
Anybody ever wonder
When they would see the sun go
Just remember when you come up
The show goes on