[ti:gone going]
[ar:black eyed peas]
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[00:04.68]Johnny wanna be a big star
[00:06.28]Get on stage and play the guitar
[00:07.88]Make a little money, buy a fancy car
[00:10.94]Big old house and an alligator
[00:12.46]Just to match with them alligator shoes
[00:15.06]He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues
[00:19.12]He's singing songs about material things
[00:21.19]And platinum rings and watches that go bling
[00:23.67]But, diamonds don't bling in the dark
[00:26.00]He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart
[00:28.71]Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart
[00:30.78]Coz his fans can't relate to his new found art
[00:33.68]He ain't doing what he did from the start
[00:36.05]
[00:37.06]And that's ??
[00:39.13]He decided to live his life shallow
[00:41.32]Passion is love for material
[00:42.55]And its gone... gone... going...
[00:46.31]Gone... everything gone... give a damn...
[00:49.35]Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...
[00:52.55]Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.
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[01:03.44]You see yourself in the mirror
[01:06.11]And you feel safe coz it looks familiar
[01:08.06]But you afraid to open up your soul
[01:11.03]Coz you don't really know, don't really know
[01:12.73]Who is, the person that's deep within
[01:15.07]Coz you are content with just being the na?ve brown man
[01:17.44]And you fail to see that its trivial
[01:20.23]Insignificant, you addicted to material
[01:23.43]I've seen your kind before
[01:24.62]Your the type that thinks souls is sold in a store
[01:27.96]Packaged up with inscent sticks
[01:29.48]With them vegetarian meals
[01:30.74]To you that's righteous
[01:32.12]
[01:33.11]You're fiction like books
[01:34.49]You need to go out to life and look
[01:37.73]Coz... what happens when they take your material
[01:39.55]You already sold your soul and its...
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[02:01.03]You say that time is money and money is time
[02:03.67]So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind
[02:06.07]But what about... that crime that you did to get paid
[02:08.80]And what about... that bid, you can't take it to your brain
[02:12.73]Why you on about those shoes you'll wear today
[02:14.96]They'll do no good on the bridges you've walked along the way
[02:20.73]All that money that you got gonna be gone
[02:22.59]That gear that you rock gonna be gone
[02:25.14]The house up on the hill gonna be gone
[02:27.86]The gold -- on your grill gonna be gone
[02:29.99]The ice on your wrist gonna be gone
[02:32.37]That nice little Miss gonna be gone
[02:34.77]That whip that you roll gonna be gone
[02:37.33]And what's worst is your soul will be gone