Afternoon Matinee: Protest - Cloud Nine

Performed by The Temptations

The childhood part of my life

Wasn't very pretty, see...

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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 beside me,

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We hardly enough food

Or room to sleep

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It was hard times...

I needed somethin' to ease my troubled mind

Oooh 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 seeking a job

That I never did find

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Depressed and down-hearted

And I took to cloud nine

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I'm doing fine

Up here, on cloud nine

Listen, one more time

I'm doing fine

Up here, on cloud nine

Folks down there tell me...

They say give yourself a chance,son,

Don't let life pass you by,

Woo, woo, woo-oo

But the world, around you's, is a rat race

Where only the strongest survive,

It's a dog-eat-dog world

And that ain't no lie,

Ain't no lie

Dennis: Listen it ain't even safe no more

To walk the streets at night

I'm doing fine

On cloud nine

Let me tell you 'bout cloud nine...

Cloud nine

You can be what you want to be

Cloud Nine

You ain't got no responsibility

Cloud Nine

And every man, every man is free

Cloud nine

You're a million miles from reality

Reality

I wanna' stay up

Higher

Up up, Up and away

Cloud nine

I wanna' say I love the life I live,

And I'm going to

Live, the life I love

Or be on cloud nine...

I, I, I, I, I, I'm ridin' high

On cloud nine

You're as free as a bird in flight

Cloud nine

There's no difference between day and night

Cloud nine

It's a world of love and harmony

Cloud nine

You're a million miles from reality

Reality

I wanna' stay up

Higher

Up up, up and away

Cloud Nine

You can be what you want to be, ah

Cloud nine

You ain't got no responsibility

Cloud nine

Every man in his mind is free

Cloud nine

You're a million miles from reality

Cloud nine

You can be what you want to be

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