T.H.E.
Will.I.Am Feat. Mick Jagger & Jennifer Lopez Lyrics


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You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard
Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard

I'ma go hard, hard to the core
Hard like motherfuckin' liquid swords
Harder than worldwide stadium tours
I am the future, delorian doors

Will he survive? Never deceased
I don't think I'm ever gonna rest in peace
I'ma kill the game, leave the rest in pieces
Now everybody want my recipe
Tell a jealous chicken I don't know what the beef is
I'm just making money for my grankids' nieces
I'ma work hard, that's my basis
This beat is a shit, feces

Pardon me ma'am, I'ma go dumb
Small.i.am, I'm complicated, hard.I.am
I end the beginning, then start it again

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard
Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard

You can get that, or you can get this
You can call it demon, I'ma call it Jesus
You can get a curse, you can get a cross
You can go to work, or you can be the boss
I'ma be the owner, be a thought Donor
I'ma go hard, like a motherfuckin" boner
I'ma make a beat to put the people in a coma
You can be a geek or be a rolling stoner

I woke up in the morning,
Hard like morning wood in the morning
Woke up thinking about microphoning
E.T. own the mic phone the homeland

I wait out like NASA, I'm way over here I done past ya
I get stacks of cash, you get cashews, I go hard, statues

Uh, you can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

Now let me take this time to say
I don't wanna lead you on
You can go hard or you can go home
Well I, I know it is a lot to take
I don't wanna lead you on
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard

Wait a minute, I'ma make it a little harder
I'ma make it a little harder
Give it to you a little harder

This is hard, hard like a rock n roll
Time bombs's ticking, explode
Baby, this is dynamo
Better move back now, it's bout to blow
Hard like Geometry, and Trigonometry
This is crazy, psychology
Get it baby, I'm about to win
Watch out now, I'm going in

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home




You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of the song T.H.E. by Will.I.Am feat. Jennifer Lopez & Mick Jagger are all about going all out and giving your best. The song starts with a repeated line “you can go hard or you can go home” which sets the tone for the rest of the song. Will.I.Am then goes on to boast about his success and how he has worked hard to achieve it. He talks about how he is harder than any worldwide stadium tours and that he is the future. He also mentions that he will never rest in peace as he will always be working hard to maintain his success.


Jennifer Lopez takes a different route with her verse, urging the listeners to choose between being a follower or being a leader. She says that you can either be a boss or work for one and that she chooses to be the owner and a thought donor. Her verse is about making independent choices rather than following the norm.


Mick Jagger's verse continues the theme of working hard and pushing yourself to the limit. He talks about going harder and harder until you explode. He uses various analogies to explain the intensity of the song and how it can make you go crazy.


Overall, the song is an anthem for pushing yourself to your limits and giving your all. It is a motivational song that encourages the listener to work hard and strive for success. It also showcases the different styles of each artist and how they individually interpret the theme of the song.


Line by Line Meaning

You can go hard or you can go home
You have a choice to either put in maximum effort or give up


Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard
The instrumental is extremely powerful


I'ma go hard, hard to the core
I will put in everything I have, unrelenting and determined


I'ma kill the game, leave the rest in pieces
I will dominate the music industry, leaving others in disarray


Tell a jealous chicken I don't know what the beef is
To those who harbor resentment towards me, I am oblivious


This beat is a shit, feces
The instrumental is low quality and insignificant


You can get that, or you can get this
You have a choice between different options


I'ma be the owner, be a thought Donor
I will be successful and share my knowledge and ideas with others


I'ma go hard, like a motherfuckin" boner
I will work with intensity and focus


Uh, you can go hard or you can go home
Once again, you have a choice to either do your best or give up


Now let me take this time to say
I want to express something important


Wait a minute, I'ma make it a little harder
I will increase the intensity and difficulty


This is hard, hard like a rock n roll
This is intense and reminiscent of rock music


Watch out now, I'm going in
Be prepared, I am starting something intense and important




Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: WILLIAM ADAMS, DALLAS AUSTIN, TANYA LACEY, KENNETH OLIVER, WRITERS UNKNOWN

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@cv6442

​@@michaeltoth7526one feels like a brutal physical beat down, and the other is completely destroys my psyche and causes me to cringe so deeply into myself. By the end of that song I feel like the thumbnail of the dude with the longest nails on Earth. Dirty, twisted, and coiled.

THE leaves me on the concrete with unseeing eyes and blood coming out of my ears.

One is just more physically in your face while the other is more molten and seeps in your pores.

I feel like I can laugh at how bad this song is anyways.

Let me put it this way... I showed my sister this song to show her one of the worst songs I ever heard in my life, but didn't show her Drake Bell's bc I didn't even want that sht in my algorithm or subject her to THAT type of physical discomfort. 😅😅 it's not a funny kind of discomfort. It's the "my neck hairs are standing up" kind of discomfort. So much less funny, and therefore has zero value.

And that's how I realized for sure... that Drake Bell's cover is actually the worst. 😂



@ZoharBenJoel

Will:

Pardon me, mam ima go - done, (how?) smart I am. I’m complicated, heard I am, (boss: not buying it) I end the beginning my and start it again.

Boss: Ok start again I command you total idiot.

Pardon me mam, ima go dumb, small I am, I’m complicated, hard I am, I end the beginning and start it again.

Boss:

Will: What? It was your decision.



All comments from YouTube:

@user-cz8vt1vj4s

The commitment to making every second of this song so excruciatingly terrible is what makes this as a whole a masterpiece

@evajaneryan3746

Yeah, is for me one of these "So bad is good" songs lmao
Is absolutely horrendous in every possible way, not even Mick Jagger part was good, but holy crap is hilarious af🤣

@crieverytim

Yes, this is godawful

@ruanpablo2002

​@@evajaneryan3746pra mim a única parte que salvou a música foi a parte do Mick Jagger ,mas não justifica escutar a música inteira pra ouvir só a parte dele

@82youtubeshared

Loooool😔😂

@Maxarcc

When that Mick Jagger part came flopping in, the song ascended from a stinker to an absolute masterpiece of a stinker.

@alextorres7655

It's crazy how the coolest and most prestigious artist on this track is the one that made it suck more than anyone else.

@evajaneryan3746

​@@alextorres7655 you are talking about Mick Jagger, isn't it?

@WastelandPimp

​​@@evajaneryan3746 of course lol Mick's "verse" was ass compared to Will and J. They went 10x as HARD compared to Mick.

@ffjreviews9029

“This best is a sh*t, faeces”
“I go hard, statues”
“I don’t think I’m ever gonna rest in peaces”
“Ima go dumb, smart.i.am”
“Hard like morning wood in the morning”

What a lyrical genius

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