[Verse 1: will.i.am]

Johnny wanna be a big star

Get on stage and play the guitar

Make a little money, buy a fancy car

A big old house and an alligator

Just to match with them alligator shoes

He's a rich man, so he's no longer singing the blues

He's singing songs about material things

And platinum rings and watches that go bling

But diamonds don't bling in the dark

He a star now, but he ain't singing it from the heart

Sooner or later, it's just gonna fall apart

'Cause his fans can't relate to his newfound art

He ain't doin' what he did from the start

And that's putting in some feelin' and thought

He decided to live his life shallow

Cash in his love for material

And it's gone

[Chorus: Jack Johnson]

Gone going

Gone, everything gone, give a damn

Gone be the birds when they don't wanna sing

Gone people

Aw-awkward with their things, gone

[Verse 2: will.i.am]

You see yourself in the mirror, and ya

Feel safe 'cause it's looks familiar, but 'cha

Afraid to open up your soul, 'cause ya

Don't really know, don't really know who is (Who is)

The person that's deep within

'Cause you content with just bein' the name-brand man

And you fail to see that it's trivial

Insignificant, you addicted to material

I seen your kind before

You the type that think souls is sold in the store

Packaged up with incense sticks

With the vegetarian meals, to you, that's righteous

You're fiction like books

Need to go out to life and look

'Cause, uh, what happens when they take your material

And you already sold your soul

And it's

[Chorus: Jack Johnson]

Gone going

Gone, everything gone, give a damn

Gone be the birds when they don't wanna sing

Gone people

Aw-awkward with their things, gone

[Verse 3: will.i.am]

They say that, "Time is money, and money is time"

So you gotcha mind in your money and your money on your mind

But what about

That crime you did to get paid?

And what about

That bid you can't take it to your grave?

Tell me about it

[Bridge: Jack Johnson]

What about those shoes you’re in today?

They'll do no good

On the bridges you burnt along the way

[Verse 4: will.i.am]

All that money that chu got

Gon' be gone

Yeah, that ear that chu rock

Gon' be gone

The house up on the hill

Gon' be gone

The gold bursts on your grill

Gon' be gone

The ice on your wrist

Gon' be gone

That nice little Miss

Gon' be gone

That whip that 'chu roll

Gon' be gone

What's worse is your soul already gone

Yeah, it's gone

[Chorus: Jack Johnson]

Gone going

Gone, everything gone, give a damn

Gone be the birds when they don't wanna sing

Gone people

Aw-awkward with their things, gone

Gone

Gone