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

Pentatonix

Pentatonix is an a cappella group who gained notoriety after winning Season 3 of NBC’s The Sing Off, a competition for a cappella bands. The group consists of members Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola, and Matt Sallee, who replaced original member Avi Kaplan. Kaplan announced his departure from the group in May 2017.

PTX has made history as the first a cappella act to win the Grammy for Best Arrangement, Instrumental, or A Cappella — they won the award in both 2015 and 2016. They also won Best Country Duo/Group Performance in 2017 for their collaboration with Dolly Parton.

The group released their self-titled debut studio album in 2015, consisting of mostly original songs. The album was certified gold in February 2016 and debuted on top of the Billboard 200, spending thirty weeks on the chart.