You aint never gonna take me down
(so you see I ain't gonna break)
Your never gonna take me down 
(you can't stop what you can't stop) (2x)

They wanna see me gone they wanna see me crawl 
They wanna shut me up untill I cant speak at all 
They wont let me up they wanna see me fall 
But it aint nothing cuz I done seen it all 
Sometimes I feel like I cant breathe at all 
I lie awake at night I cant sleep at all 
I got no strength to fight I cant shake it off 
But that's the time in my life when I hear you call 
You say hold tight you say hold on 
You say it's alright you say stand strong 
Cuz my whole life I got a plan and all 
So I don't worry about a single thing that happens y'all 
Say what you want you can talk on 
I'm a get on up and I'm a walk on 
Now I ain't giving up until I'm long gone 
So why don't you step it up bring it on y'all 

You aint never gonna take me down
(so you see I ain't gonna break)
Your never gonna take me down 
(you can't stop what you can't stop) (2x)

MTV said I was just a hater 
Magazines said I was an imitator 
The industry said nobody's gonna take ya 
Record labels was like peace out see you later 
I didn't need them man I just got
Someone to depend on when it gets hot 
So VH1 you can talk all you wanna talk 
Keep ya hip-hop and keep ya lip locked
I aint gonna listen now to them talk 
I aint switching up and I aint gonna stop 
I aint giving up and I aint gonna drop
Even when I just get stuck up in ruff spot 
I aint got much but what I just got 
You see it's more than I need when I just drop 
To my knees and I can see that he shows up 
You cant break me down that's some real talk 

You aint never gonna take me down
(so you see I ain't gonna break)
Your never gonna take me down 
(you can't stop what you can't stop) (2x)

So what you gonna do when it falls apart 
Who is the one man that you call upon
When everything that you know keeps going wrong
Plus you feel like you can't keep going on 
See I know dukes your barely holding on 
They wanna break you down but keep rolling on 
They wanna take you down but don't let em y'all 
They can't hold you now God's in control 
Don't slow it down just walk it off 
It aint easy I know sometimes its really hard 
Please believe me I know you see I'm battle scarred
With my knees to the floor that how I battle on 
Say what you want you can babble on
This I know what I got so I travel on 
Don't ever stop that's why I wrote the song 
So ready or not now bring the chorus on 

You aint never gonna take me down
(so you see I ain't gonna break)
Your never gonna take me down 
(you can't stop what you can't stop) (2x)