You aint never gonna take me down

(so you see I ain't gonna break)

Your never gonna take me down 

(you can't stop what you can't stop) [2X]



They wanna see me gone they wanna see me crawl 

They wanna shut me up untill I cant speak at all 

They wont let me up they wanna see me fall 

But it aint nothing cuz I done seen it all 

Sometimes I feel like I cant breathe at all 

I lie awake at night I cant sleep at all 

I got no strength to fight I cant shake it off 

But that's the time in my life when I hear you call 

You say hold tight you say hold on 

You say it's alright you say stand strong 

Cuz my whole life I got a plan and all 

So I don't worry about a single thing that happens y'all 

Say what you want you can talk on 

I'm a get on up and I'm a walk on 

Now I ain't giving up until I'm long gone 

So why don't you step it up bring it on y'all 



You aint never gonna take me down

(so you see I ain't gonna break)

Your never gonna take me down 

(you can't stop what you can't stop) [2X]



MTV said I was just a hater 

Magazines said I was an imitator 

The industry said nobody's gonna take ya 

Record labels was like peace out see you later 

I didn't need them man I just got

Someone to depend on when it gets hot 

So VH1 you can talk all you wanna talk 

Keep ya hip-hop and keep ya lip locked

I aint gonna listen now to them talk 

I aint switching up and I aint gonna stop 

I aint giving up and I aint gonna drop

Even when I just get stuck up in ruff spot 

I aint got much but what I just got 

You see it's more than I need when I just drop 

To my knees and I can see that he shows up 

You cant break me down that's some real talk 



You aint never gonna take me down

(so you see I ain't gonna break)

Your never gonna take me down 

(you can't stop what you can't stop) [2X]



So what you gonna do when it falls apart 

Who is the one man that you call upon

When everything that you know keeps going wrong

Plus you feel like you can't keep going on 

See I know dukes your barely holding on 

They wanna break you down but keep rolling on 

They wanna take you down but don't let em y'all 

They can't hold you now God's in control 

Don't slow it down just walk it off 

It aint easy I know sometimes its really hard 

Please believe me I know you see I'm battle scarred

With my knees to the floor that how I battle on 

Say what you want you can babble on

This I know what I got so I travel on 

Don't ever stop that's why I wrote the song 

So ready or not now bring the chorus on 



You aint never gonna take me down

(so you see I ain't gonna break)

Your never gonna take me down 

(you can't stop what you can't stop) [2X]