Opening Riff (VII) Step up... Step up... (VII) fall back, take a look at me and you'll see I'm for real, I'll feel what only I can feel and if that don't appeal to ya Let me know, and I'll go, cause I flow better when my colours show and that's the way it has to be, honestly cause creativity could never bloom in my room, I'd throw it all away before I lie So don't call me with the compromise, hang up the phone, I got a backbone Stronger than yours La la la la la la La la la la la la La la la la la la Yeah yeah yeah yeah... If you're trying to turn me into someone else It's easy to see I'm not down with that I'm not nobody's fool If you're trying to turn me into something else I've seen it enough that I'm over that I'm not nobody's fool If you want to bring me down go ahead and try, Go ahead and try You don't know you think you know me like yourself but I fear that you're only telling me what I wanna hear but do you give a damn, understand that I can't not be what I I'm not the milk and cheerios in your spoon It's not as simple here we go not so soon, I might have fallen for that When I was 14 and a little more green but it's amazing what a couple of years can mean Ohhhhhhh Yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah If you're trying to turn me into someone else It's easy to see I'm not down with that I'm not nobody's fool If you're trying to turn me into something else I've seen it enough that I'm over that I'm not nobody's fool If you want to bring me down go ahead and try, go ahead and try Ohhhhhh go ahead and try, try to look me in the eye but you'll never see inside, until you realize Things are trying to settle down Just trying to figure out exactly what I'm about If it's with or without you, I don't need your doubt in me If you're trying to turn me into someone else It's easy to see I'm not down with that I'm not nobody's fool If you're trying to turn me into something else I've seen it enough that I'm over that I'm not nobody's fool If you want to bring me down go ahead and try, try Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, ohhhhh but you'll be laughing out loud, if I played to my own crowd Try go ahead and try