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Cloud Nine [*]
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Edwin Starr
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Childhood part of my life, it wasn't very pretty.
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You see, I was born and raised in the slums of the city,
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It was a one room shack that slept ten other children besides me.
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We hardly had enough food or room to sleep.
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It was hard times,
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Needed something to ease my troubled mind.
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Listen! my father didn't know the meaning of work,
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He disrespected mama, and treated us like dirt.
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I left home, seekin' a job that I never did find,
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Depressed and downhearted I took to cloud nine,
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I'm doin' fine, up here on cloud nine.
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Listen one more time I'm doin' fine, up here on cloud nine.
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Folks down there tell me,
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They say, "give yourself a chance son, don't let life pass you by".
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But the world of reality is a rat race where only the strongest survive,
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It's a dog eat dog world, and that ain't no lie.
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Listen! it ain't even safe no more to walk the streets at night,
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I'm doin' fine, on cloud nine.
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Let me tell you about cloud nine.
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Cloud nine, you can be what you wanna be
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(cloud nine) you ain't got no responsibility,
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And ev'ry man, ev'ry man is free
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(cloud nine) and you're a million miles from reality.
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I wanna say I love the life I live,
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And I'm gonna live the life I love up here on cloud nine.
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I'm riding high
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On cloud nine, you're as free as a bird in flight
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(cloud nine) there's no diff'rence between day and night
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(cloud nine) it's a world of love and harmony
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(cloud nine) you're a million miles from reality.
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Cloud nine, you can be what you wanna be
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Cloud nine) you ain't got no responsibility,
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And ev'ry man, ev'ry man is free
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(cloud nine) and you're a million miles from reality.
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(cloud nine) (cloud nine) (cloud nine)
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