Temptations - Cloud Nine lyrics
rate meDennis: The childhood part of my life<br />
Wasn't very pretty, see...<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
Dennis: I was born and raised<br />
In the slums of the city,<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
Dennis: It was a one-room shack<br />
That slept ten other children beside me,<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
Dennis: We hardly enough food<br />
Or room to sleep<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
Dennis: It was hard times...<br />
I needed somethin' to ease my troubled mind<br />
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Paul: Oooh listen...<br />
My father didn't know the meaning of work<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
Paul: He disrespected mama,<br />
And treated us like dirt<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
Paul: I left home seeking a job<br />
That I never did find<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
Paul: Depressed and down-hearted<br />
And I took to cloud nine<br />
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom<br />
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Paul: I'm doing fine<br />
Up here, on cloud nine<br />
Paul: Listen, one more time<br />
Paul: I'm doing fine<br />
Up here, on cloud nine<br />
Dennis: Folks down there tell me...<br />
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Dennis: They say give yourself a chance,son,<br />
Don't let life pass you by,<br />
Temptations: Woo, woo, woo-oo<br />
Dennis: But the world, around you's, is a rat race<br />
Where only the strongest survive,<br />
It's a dog-eat-dog world<br />
And that ain't no lie,<br />
Temptations: Ain't no lie<br />
Dennis: Listen it ain't even safe no more<br />
To walk the streets at night<br />
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Eddie: I'm doing fine<br />
Temptations: On cloud nine<br />
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Dennis: Let me tell you 'bout cloud nine...<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Paul: You can be what you want to be<br />
Temptations: Cloud Nine<br />
Dennis: You ain't got no responsibility<br />
Temptations: Cloud Nine<br />
Eddie: And every man, every man is free<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Dennis: You're a million miles from reality<br />
Otis: Reality<br />
<br />
Temptations: I wanna' stay up<br />
Eddie and Otis: Higher<br />
Temptations: Up up, Up and away<br />
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Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
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Eddie: I wanna' say I love the life I live,<br />
And I'm going to <br />
Eddie/Otis: live, the life I love<br />
Eddie: Or be on cloud nine...<br />
I, I, I, I, I, I'm ridin' high<br />
Temptations: On cloud nine<br />
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Dennis: You're as free as a bird in flight<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Melvin: There's no difference between day and night<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Eddie: It's a world of love and harmony<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Dennis: You're a million miles from reality<br />
Otis: Reality<br />
<br />
Temptations: I wanna' stay up<br />
Eddie and Otis: Higher<br />
Temptations: Up up, up and away<br />
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Temptations: Cloud Nine<br />
Paul: You can be what you want to be, ah<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Dennis: You ain't got no responsibility<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Eddie: Every man in his mind is free<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Dennis: You're a million miles from reality<br />
Temptations: Cloud nine<br />
Paul: You can be what you want to be<br />
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Temptations: all of them weave in and out with ad libs<br />
And choruses of "Boom-booms"<br />
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Fade to end
