Verse 1:
Everybody wanna be great, everybody wanna be great, and nobody wanna be a nobody. So they go to great lengths, wanna keep up with the trends, wanna keep up with their friends, wanna keep up with those who keep up with events. When they see me guarding my life, they take offence
And the kids wanna be what they see on the TV screen and on BBC and on BET, and the girls wanna be Rih Rih and the guys wanna be Breezy. Exaggerate they wanna blow it up, Guy Fawkes, acting independent why July 4
He like it he gotta get it
He swipe it get it on credit
He buys it later regret it
The finance giving him headache
If you ain't got the p’s spend within your means
Peer pressure got him stressing tryna impress
All of his team, selling him dreams
They make him pop them bottles till he vomits
Then he get mo’ hammered but I don’t see the profit
What does it profit a man to gain the globe but lose his soul?
Nothing at all, So my condolences
I won’t be keeping up with the Joneses, lets go!
Chorus:
Yeah I see how they got it
If they got it I want it
If I want it, I get it
And if I get it I’m on it
I’m tryna keep up with the Joneses, keeping up with the Joneses
Keep up with the Joneses, hoping that people notices
But wait money, wait money money
Yeah I see that you make money, make money money
But if you just waste money, it ain't funny
You’ll just watch it run away cuzzie, don’t hate on me
I’m just saying brother
Verse 2:
They want that Gucci, Balenciaga
That Loius, that Fendi, Prada
Exclusive Buscemi rather
Than using his pennies smarter
Get’s it imported just so that he can flaunt it
And because he can buy it, doesn’t mean he can afford it
If you find your identity in the price of your denim jeans
Then your life it will never be as designed in the heavenly
Best believe priorities of many seem to never make sense
Like popping bottles while you own mother struggles to pay rent
Living at home ain't time to splash
Living at home is time to stack (Yeah)
Take the steps to invest into your future
And when you raise the bar, praise the Lord, hallelujah!
Chorus:
Yeah I see how they got it
If they got it I want it
If I want it, I get it
And if I get it I’m on it
I’m tryna keep up with the Joneses, keeping up with the Joneses
Keep up with the Joneses, hoping that people notices
But wait money, wait money money
Yeah I see that you make money, make money money
But if you just waste money, it ain't funny
You’ll just watch it run away cuzzie, don’t hate on me
I’m just saying brother
Verse 3
Some people fake it to make it
Then make it then waste it
What a wasteful engagement, right now they are caught in a Matrix
Pipe down with all of your fakers, all your ominous statements
Tell you all you were called for more than some steady two fakeness
OK, get up & go, man I mean just roll up your sleeves
No time for so so, your set up for more than rolling up trees
Take that moment to see (what's that), all the glorious things
You see the food that I'm feeding you hommie bon appetit (breathe)
Man, I know folk who wanna poke their nose
I say vamanos to that rope a dope
I never would have came up with it all alone - I thank God for the Son and the Holy Ghost
And he made me free be, me & Faith on board like a Ouija
Never faith on pause but repeat, when you smile and see me know that this road ain't easy!
Chorus:
Yeah I see how they got it
If they got it I want it
If I want it, I get it
And if I get it I’m on it
I’m tryna keep up with the Joneses, keeping up with the Joneses
Keep up with the Joneses, hoping that people notices
But wait money, wait money money
Yeah I see that you make money, make money money
But if you just waste money, it ain't funny
You’ll just watch it run away cuzzie, don’t hate on me
I’m just saying brother
