we were drinking dinner on the sunset strip the girls doing powder got a little on her lip it s just another night man i can t take this we re running out of money and i can t pay the rent the man at the label said we ll never write a hit shit man i can t take this when everything is d d driving me crazy oh i m ticking like time bomb and i m about to blow what s it going to take to make it i m a sorry motherfucker tired of living in the gutter get me out of here what s it going to take to make it i ll do anything but fake it what s it going to take what s it going to 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 the radio station said it s way too loud so we took it to the streets just to prove them 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 what s it going to take to make it in the city of sin yeah city of angels what s it going to take to make it out of here  what s it going to take to make it here what s it going to take to make it i m a sorry motherfucker tired of living in the gutter get me out of here what s it going to take to make it here 