Текст песни
Give me a standing ovation
Yes I deserve applause
All that I've been through
Yet I'm still standing tall
Give me a standing ovation
Yes I deserve applause
All that I've been through
Yet I'm still standing tall
No one told me life would be easy
Momma said son reach for the stars
Given faith kept believing
Steadfast when life was hard
I was born on distant lands
Chasing dreams changed my plans
Giants shoulders I stand to live out loud
Yahs my biggest fan showing favor
There's no doubt all the naysayers
They just mumble about
Give me a standing ovation
Yes I deserve applause
All that I've been through
Yet I'm still standing tall
Give me a standing ovation
Yes I deserve applause
All that I've been through
Yet I'm still standing tall
I need applause
I need it all
Prodigal Son, Listen!
I've been at a disadvantage since I hit the boat
Involuntarily stripped of my freedom, language hope
Seems so distant when momma don't recognize ya spoke
Cause you was stripped from her arms down at the market
Nope, papa ain't around neither
Cause breaking down the family structure quickest way to keep them all beneath ya
Emancipated so now they call us farmers
It's funny, cause i ain't seen no money they just lynch and harm us
They say it's separate but it's equal
And we'on know no better cause education wasn't a prequel
See once you know the game you can play it
Cause you's a tail-light, and a bag away from the new enslavement
I'm patient, is what I like to think
But as I'm jotting business plans got visions of JD in the clink
He Probably rapping with my cousin
Or uncle or brother, system designed to have us live in confinement
But through it all we made it
My trust in the most high