Released: November 5, 2013
Songwriter: Macklemore Ryan Lewis Ray Dalton
Producer: Pentatonix Ben Bram
[Intro: Kevin Olusola]
It's so hard when people knock you down and tell you that you're never gonna get a shot at glory
But that's when you rise to the challenge, cause it's your time, your moment, and nothing can stop us now!
[Verse 1: Scott Hoying (Kirstin Maldonado)]
PTX, get up!
What it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn’t
Looking for a better way to get up out of bed
Instead of getting on the Internet and checking a new hit
Get up! Thrift Shop, pimp strut walking, little bit of humble, little bit of cautious
Somewhere between like rocky and Cosby sweatergang nope nope y’all can’t copy
Yup. Bad, moonwalking, this here, is our party, (my posse's been on Broadway,)
(Ha! and we do it, our way.)
Grown music, I shed my skin and put my bones
(Into everything I record)
(And yep yep yep yep I’m on)
Trust me. On my I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T cause ha
Chasing dreams since we were 14
With the four track
Bussing halfway cross that city with the backpack
Fat cat, crushing
[Chorus: Scott Hoying]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Chorus: Scott Hoying]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Verse 2: Mitch Grassi (Scott Hoying)]
Nah, can I kick it? Thank you. yeah I'm so dang grateful
I grew up, really wanted gold fronts
But that’s what you get when Texas raised you
Y’all can’t stop me, go hard
Like I got an 808 in my heart beat
And I’m eating at the beat
Like I gave a little speed
To a great white shark on shark week
(Oh, raise those hands, this is our party)
(We came here to live life like nobody was watching)
(I got my city right behind me)
(If I fall, they got me)
(Learn from that failure gain humility keep marching)
[Chorus: Scott Hoying]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Bridge: All]
Pa ra rap pa pa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa paaa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa pa
(Pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa
(and so we put our hands up)
(Oooh whoa!)
Pa ra rap pa pa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa paaa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa pa
(Pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa
Let's go!
Nana nana nana nana
Oh oh oh oh
(and so we put our hands up)
Nana nana nana nana
Ooh Whoa whoa!!!!
(and so we put our hands up)
Nana nana nana nana
Oh oh oh oh
(and so we put our hands up)
Nana nana nana nana
Ooh Whoa whoa!!!!
[Chorus: Scott Hoying (Kirstin Maldonado & Mitch Grassi)]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us (like the ceiling can’t hold us)
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Chorus: Scott Hoying (Kirstin Maldonado)]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us (like the ceiling can’t hold us)
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
It's so hard when people knock you down and tell you that you're never gonna get a shot at glory
But that's when you rise to the challenge, cause it's your time, your moment, and nothing can stop us now!
[Verse 1: Scott Hoying (Kirstin Maldonado)]
PTX, get up!
What it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn’t
Looking for a better way to get up out of bed
Instead of getting on the Internet and checking a new hit
Get up! Thrift Shop, pimp strut walking, little bit of humble, little bit of cautious
Somewhere between like rocky and Cosby sweatergang nope nope y’all can’t copy
Yup. Bad, moonwalking, this here, is our party, (my posse's been on Broadway,)
(Ha! and we do it, our way.)
Grown music, I shed my skin and put my bones
(Into everything I record)
(And yep yep yep yep I’m on)
Trust me. On my I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T cause ha
Chasing dreams since we were 14
With the four track
Bussing halfway cross that city with the backpack
Fat cat, crushing
[Chorus: Scott Hoying]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Chorus: Scott Hoying]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Verse 2: Mitch Grassi (Scott Hoying)]
Nah, can I kick it? Thank you. yeah I'm so dang grateful
I grew up, really wanted gold fronts
But that’s what you get when Texas raised you
Y’all can’t stop me, go hard
Like I got an 808 in my heart beat
And I’m eating at the beat
Like I gave a little speed
To a great white shark on shark week
(Oh, raise those hands, this is our party)
(We came here to live life like nobody was watching)
(I got my city right behind me)
(If I fall, they got me)
(Learn from that failure gain humility keep marching)
[Chorus: Scott Hoying]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Bridge: All]
Pa ra rap pa pa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa paaa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa pa
(Pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa
(and so we put our hands up)
(Oooh whoa!)
Pa ra rap pa pa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa paaa
(Pa pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa pa
(Pa pa pa)
Pa pa pa
Let's go!
Nana nana nana nana
Oh oh oh oh
(and so we put our hands up)
Nana nana nana nana
Ooh Whoa whoa!!!!
(and so we put our hands up)
Nana nana nana nana
Oh oh oh oh
(and so we put our hands up)
Nana nana nana nana
Ooh Whoa whoa!!!!
[Chorus: Scott Hoying (Kirstin Maldonado & Mitch Grassi)]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us (like the ceiling can’t hold us)
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
[Chorus: Scott Hoying (Kirstin Maldonado)]
Here we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight 'til it's over
So we put our hands up
Like the ceiling can’t hold us (like the ceiling can’t hold us)
Like the ceiling can’t hold us
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- PTX, Vol. II (2013)
- PTX, Vols. 1 & 2 (2014)
- PTX (2014)
- PTX Japan 5th Anniversary Greatest Hits (2019)
Pentatonix popular songs
- Daft Punk
- Despacito × Shape Of You
- Jolene
- Havana
- Imagine
- Coldest Winter
- Can’t Hold Us
- Attention
- La La Latch
- New Rules × Are You That Somebody?
- Shallow
- Can You Feel The Love Tonight
- Lean On
- Where Are Ü Now
- Perfect
- I Need Your Love
- Problem
- Do You Hear What I Hear
- Coldest Winter (Bobby Alt Drum Mix)
- Finesse
- Stay
- Praying
- Sorry Not Sorry
- Thrift Shop