Coolio - The Winner

It's time to take you
To its full potential
Peep this and drop some game
On the instrumental and
it's essential that you listen close
And better tell your folks
that the loc has spoke
first things first since
Your date of birth
you've been kinda confused
About what your life is worth
50 million times your weight in gold
you gotta take control
cause fools don't live to be old
you can do anything
That you want to do
all you got to do is to put
Your brain into it
take your time and
Educate your mind and
in the long run
I'm sure you'll find that
if you walk the walk
You can talk the talk
but don't wait too long
Cuz life is short
and remember,
No matter what they tellin' you
if you try, you can be a winner too

Keep on pushing
moving on up
everybody we're moving on up
moving on up
you're a winner
you gotta keep pushing
moving on up
everybody we're moving on up
moving on up
you're a winner

Everybody rise men and
Women boys and girls
each one teach one
But we can't save the world
all at one day you got
To take it play by play
and once you're on the path
don't you ever go a stray
you can lead a horse to water

But you can't make him drink
you can give a man some wizdom
But you can't make him man feel
Cuz stich in time saves nine
Early bird gets the worm
But all you can think
About is gettin attention for your perm
If knowledge is power and
Power is knowledge, then
How so many idiots
Be graduating from colleges
Better to be silent and
Be thought a fool
Than to speak and
Remove all doubt

You know what
I'm talking about
when opportunity knocks
You better let him in
And sit him on down
And try to be his friend
In order to be a professional
First you got to be a beginner
But if you keep on
Pushing you can be a winner

Red yellow black white or brown
if every mind their business
We can all get down
it all starts at home
coz once
They're grown
They're gone
and once they're on their own
you got to leave them alone
be a leader but
If you can't be a leader
make sure your leader
Is a damn good teacher and
imagine if you was in a car
And your life was wasted
somebody was on your back
And you had to give him some space

Put the petal to the metal and match at low
but make sure you stay in your lane
and go strof to strof
we don't need no penaltys or eliminations
or disqualifications
what we need is penetrations
now what you heard before but
Sometimes life is what you make it
I ain't the one thats known
For fakin or perpetratin
if Albert was an Einstein
and Phillis was a Diller
and Michael Jackson was a thriller
then you could be a winner

Chorus extended
Fade out