Follow Your Dreams

[Intro, spoken] The world fears a person with a dream Because to have a dream gives you the ambition to wanna fulfill wanna that dream And if you live your life fulling that dream, you're gonna glow man. Because there’s a magnificence and a moment that comes with fulfilling you dream that you can't achieve being a part of someone else's [Hook] Follow your dreams no matter what people may say They gon' talk, they gon' front, they gon' hate At the end of the day its between you and God cause you know what it takes All my dreams get knocked right back down Two steps forward three steps back round They keep pulling, I'm pushing, I'm shoving, they showing no love - God I need you right now [Verse 1] You got famous, fell off, came back up, damn that's insane The same as you must be to be in this game In this game you suffer, hit strangers Like Usain you bolt towards your dream But haters speak disdain Know my name and your name But one thing's for sure man Success is a sickness and there ain't no cure, man Cure all is work hard and don't take no tours off And even on off days you can't act like you're off The payoff is tenfold in dollars and euros Pitfalls of vanity, pride, and your ego Just let go and live up to your full potential What they say is hearsay, it's inconsequential But naysayers say no, but they are so simple That they judge appearance and can't touch the mental They are sheep, they follow shepherds and man I'm Malcolm, I'm Martin; I follow my plan [Hook] Follow your dreams no matter what people may say They gon' talk, they gon' front, they gon' hate At the end of the day its between you and God cause you know what it takes All my dreams get knocked right back down Two steps forward three steps back round They keep pulling, I'm pushing, I'm shoving, they showing no love - God I need you right now [Verse 2] Do it for family, but they don't believe That dreams that you have can even be achieved Get ready young sailor, here's rough on these seas Can't let no doubt or self-pity drown me It's design when you sign and the vultures appear And if you should succeed, then it's worse by the year But the worse curse is failure, it kills by the day Watch your dreams and ambitions as they fade away See, my curse is I'll verse in these verses I verse Will still be overlooked like a body in hearse But this Lazarus rap and this is my rebirth This is no pen, no paper, just my dream on verse The boot lady told me she dreamed I was cursed Told her, if you can't tell I returned to Earth Returned to the dirt, returned to the essence Cause no weapon formed that gives me a succession [Hook] Follow your dreams no matter what people may say They gon' talk, they gon' front, they gon' hate At the end of the day its between you and God cause you know what it takes All my dreams get knocked right back down Two steps forward three steps back round They keep pulling, I'm pushing, I'm shoving, they showing no love - God I need you right now [Outro, spoken] I hope you've learned about the business of chasing your dreams out there I hope you're chasing your dreams 'till you're exhausted, 'till your feet hurt, 'till your bones ache, and 'till you get it, you're hoping that you won't let it go I want this to be more than good music to you, I hope it's inspiration for you Chad Butler told me a few years back, "fight for your dream, Michael, like a drowning man fightin' for air." [Hook x2] Follow your dreams no matter what people may say They gon' talk, they gon' front, they gon' hate At the end of the day its between you and God cause you know what it takes All my dreams get knocked right back down Two steps forward three steps back round They keep pulling, I'm pushing, I'm shoving, they showing no love - God I need you right now