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]