Yeah,
well you gotta work hard
If you wanna live your hands
-on life's reward
Yeah, well you gotta be strong
If you wanna get where you belong
Yeah, well you gotta be true
To the people that are good to you
This is what you have to do
just to get on through,
just to get on through
It could feel like a treadmill,
treading this planet
Always running through life,
the scenery stays stagnant
Just trying to manage all
the days till they vanish
Getting high so I don't
dwell in the madness
The baddest master of ceremonies,
I'm average
I can't get past the blank canvas
Don't ask for inspiration,
I demand it
Sadness cut s deep,
liquor's just a bandage
The world's too savage,
running on finances
We just don't have it
It's so cold I got no jacket
A frozen bastard
Whose rags is tattered
I smash through days like
they just don't matter
The glass ain't half full
My shit done shattered
I stand alone and won't climb no ladders
The snakes will take me
back down to un quit
Before it's curtains
My purpose don't be worthless
Well you gotta work hard
If you wanna lay your
hands on life's reward
Well you gotta be strong
If you wanna get where you belong
No matter what I do, baby
Well you gotta be true
To the people that are good to you
This is what you have to do
Just to get on through
Just to get on through
Some say the night's darkest
just before the dawn
Well tonight's gone on for too long
Try to stay strong like a king
Though I feel like a pawn
Wondering how it all went wrong
I did love you for a minute
But love has two vows
and you weren't in it
So the motivation is diminished
I'd fuck the whole world,
but I'm feeling too timid
I need to grab the reins,
push the bitch to its limits
Before the earth open up,
swallows me whole
The seeds I've sown, they've grown
So I can't leave them alone,
I'll atone for my sins
All I want is the best for my kids
I don't shed tears till I've had
one too many beers
Truth is, I struggled through the years
I still try
This is what you have to do
Just to get on through
Just to get on through
We gotta work hard
If you wanna let your
hands on life show on
We gotta be strong
If you wanna get where you belong
No matter what I do, baby
We gotta be true
To the people that are good to you
This is what you have to do
Just to get on through
Just to get on through
Yeah, you got the love
Uh, you got the love
You know you're seein' me through, bae
Uh, uh -huh, you got the love
Uh, yeah, you see me through
Well, you gotta work hard
You wanna lay your hands
on life's reward
Well, you gotta be strong
You wanna get where you belong
Yeah, yeah
Well, you gotta be true
To the people that are good to you
This is what you have to do
Just to get on through,
just to get on through