We were drinkin' dinner on the Sunset Strip The girls doin' powder got a little on her lip It's just another night Man I can't take this Runnin' outta money and I can't pay the rent The man at the label say we'll never write a hit Shit Man I can't take this anymore Everything's drivin' me crazy I'm tickin' like time bomb And I'm about to blow What's it gonna take to make it What's it gonna take to make it I'm a sorry mother fucker tired of livin' in the gutter Get me outta here What's it gonna take to make it I'll do anything but fake it What's it gonna take to make it here So we wrote another song cut a demo on a dime They didn't like the sound We didn't fit the times And the radio station said "it's way too loud" We took it to the streets just to prove 'em all wrong We knew we had it right, yeah, we knew it all along It's just another fight Man I can't take this Everything's drivin' me crazy I'm tickin' like time bomb And I'm about to blow What's it gonna take to make it In the city of sin, yeah the city of angels What's it gonna take To make it out of here