[Intro: Will Smith]

The separation of talent and skill

Is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts

For people who are trying to excel

Who have dreams, that wanna do things

Talent you have naturally

Skill is only developed

By hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft

[Verse: Sparrow]

I’m crazy if I say I’m gonna make it

But if I speak my mind enough, though

I bet crazy will seem sane

I feel for the kind of people

Who can’t seem to find a peephole

Can’t even seem to entertain simple questioning

Rants and attacks the person who seeks the truth

Spurns their efforts and makes every effort

To turn them into a new source of entertainment

Another dude with a bunch screws loose

A’in’t that the truth? What else is new?

Just another day - Hey man, I’m telling you

But the truth is that the truth changes

With every opinion we may lay claims to

And different is different than insaneness

Insane is disdain toward anything different

A few strange angles can still form a shape

I think I’ll reform my take and take aim

With one where I can staple a statement

Right into the middle of your foreheads

Of you fucking naysayers who’d forego going forward

If it kept yourself in the majority

You’d forbid others from putting forth resources

Toward anything other than your ignorant unworldly worldview

Warn others “You’re encouraged to go with the flow”

Go fuck yourselves! I’ll hold my tongue despite you fools

But I won’t bite mine to oblige you

And find myself walking a mile with you in your shoes

[Bridge]

When the going gets tough

You gotta keep going

No matter the circumstances

No matter who’s in your way, or why

[Hook]

Be the fire to the star

Let ‘em know you fixin’ to do it right

You done figured out the game

So motherfuckin’ right, right right

All my winners put your hands up

Only if you believe (x3)

Oh, only if you believe (x3)

All my winners put your hands up .

[Verse: Sparrow]

Fuck anyone who doubts my motives

This story is my right, and I write mine as I go

Don’t plagiarize or criticize - Just write your own!

At no point in time, in any chapter

Will my own lead character

Be undermined, be recognized

As another one left underdeveloped

Or easily described

When you critique me peeking through hindsight

When I tell you I’ve got something to prove

Know I’m the only juror in my courtroom

So judge me if you please

No acquittal for persecutors with their critical beliefs

There is no bigger critic of me than myself and I

Which is why I play the plaintiff, defendant

Hell, I’m the fucking judge as well

I don’t demand order in mine

It’s more like a ballroom I guess

Cause you just keep waltzing in on your high horse

Even though you can’t keep the ball in yours

Oh but you talk a big game though, don’t you bro?

Chains and sluts, money and fame - Dumb

So much so you’re not ashamed - What a shame

When did ignorance become such a fixture in the game

That the kids grew up thinking idiots were the shit

What a rude awakening learning they weren’t shit

Just a bunch of puppets

Must be tough overcoming becoming

What you grew up hoping to become

[Bridge]

[Hook]

[Outro: Will Smith]

The only thing that I see

That is distinctly different about me

Is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill

You might have more talent than me

You might be smarter than me

But if we get on the treadmill together

(Laughter) Right?…There’s two things:

You’re getting off first, or I’m gonna die

It’s really that simple