People Talk

[Chorus]

No matter what the people say

I'm gonna live my life this way

Nobody's gonna slow my pace

I'll keep hanging on

I'm fighting for a brighter day

'Cause I gotta give this love away

Change coming and despite the pain

I'll keep hanging on

I'll keep hanging on

[Verse 1]

I used to never have a doubt in my mind

But now I argue back and forth inside my head all the time

Filling the hole inside your soul ain't got no reason or rhyme

But if it don't serve me, then I'm surely gonna leave it behind

It's more apparent that my light burns brighter and I'm always vibin' higher

When I tunе out the distractions and focus on my desires

I'm finally awarе of what I want and what's required

And my team all pulls together when it's down to the wire

And what the people say? It doesn't matter anyway

I keep hangin' on for all my homies and my family's sake

You feel like you could run away? Well, no one else could take your place

Whatever's on your mind is just the opener for brighter days

If something happens, we deal with the circumstances

And we won't let it deter us from dreaming and taking chances

We don't take what we're handed, be the brush and not the canvas

And if they're gonna knock us down we'll be the last ones standing

[Chorus]

No matter what the people say

I'm gonna live my life this way

Nobody's gonna slow my pace

I'll keep hanging on

I'm fighting for a brighter day

'Cause I gotta give this love away

Change coming and despite the pain

I'll keep hanging on

I'll keep hanging on

[Verse 2: Brother Ali]

Mic rockin' was always my calling

Since I was small, I had ears open and eyes watching

My aim is to spit the most dangerous

Truth just the way it is

I always knew that I was crafted different

I probably wouldn't made it if I had to fit in

I never asked permission

Following the mass opinion is a bad religion

I put the first footprints in every path I've driven

I been slept on, stepped on

My name the last one they tend to put respect on

When they were treated dead wrong, I came to their defense

The shoe slapped on the other foot, how soon they forget

I never had a taste for accolades, fame fortune and the praise

I just want the chance to face myself 'fore I pass away

If my creator smiles at me on the last of days

It won't matter what creation had to say

[Chorus]

No matter what the people say

I'm gonna live my life this way

Nobody's gonna slow my pace

I'll keep hanging on, yeah

I'm fighting for a brighter day

'Cause I gotta give this love away

Change coming and despite the pain

I'll keep hanging on (I'll keep hanging on, yeah)

No matter what the people say

I'm gonna live my life this way

Nobody's gonna slow my pace

I'll keep hanging on

I'm fighting for a brighter day

'Cause I gotta give this love away

Change coming and despite the pain

I'll keep hanging on

I'll keep hanging on