[Verse 1: Chris Martin]

Just because I'm losin'

Doesn't mean I'm lost

Doesn't mean I'll stop

Doesn't mean I'm across

Just because I'm hurtin'

Doesn't mean I'm hurt

Doesn't mean I didn't get what I deserved

No better and no worse

[Chorus: Chris Martin]

I just got lost

Every river that I tried to cross

Every door I ever tried was locked

Oh, and I'm just waitin' 'til the shine wears off

[Verse 2: Chris Martin]

You might be a big fish

In a little pond

Doesn't mean you've won

'Cause along may come a bigger one

[Chorus: Chris Martin, JAY-Z]

And you'll be lost

Every river that you tried to cross

Every gun you ever held went off

Oh, and I'm just waitin' 'til the firin' stopped

Oh, and I'm just waitin' 'til the shine wears off

(Geah, just waiting 'til the—

Yeah, uh-huh, I gotchu, uh, yeah)

[Verse 3: JAY-Z]

With the same sword they knight you

They gon' good-night you with

Shit, that's only half if they like you

That ain't even the half what they might do

Don't believe me, ask Michael

See Martin, see Malcolm

See Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome

See Jesus, see Judas

See Caesar, see Brutus, see success is like suicide

Suicide, it's a suicide

If you succeed, prepare to be crucified (uh)

Media meddles, niggas sue you, you settle

Every step you take, they remind you you're ghetto

So it's tough being Bobby Brown

To be Bobby then, you have to be Bobby now

And the question is, is to have had and lost

Better than not having at all? Because I'm—

[Outro: Chris Martin]

Oh, and I'm just waitin' 'til the shine wears off (Oh, oh, oh)

Oh, and I'm just waitin' 'til the shine wears off (Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)

(Oh, oh, oh)

(Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)