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Childhood part of my life,
it wasn't very pretty.
You see, I was born and raised
in the slums of the city.
It was a one-room shack
that slept ten other children besides me;
we hardly had enough food
or room to sleep.
It was hard times,
needed something to ease my troubled mind.
Mm, listen, my father didn't know
the meaning of work.
He disrespected mama
and treated us like dirt.
I left home, seekin' a job
that I never did fin-ind;
depressed and downhearted,
I took to cloud nine.
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."
But the world of reality's a rat race
where only the strongest survive;
it's a dog-eat-dog world,
and that ain't no lie.
Listen, it ain't even safe no more
to walk the streets at night.
I'm doin' fine
on cloud nine.
Let me tell you about cloud nine:
cloud nine,
you can be what you wanna be;
cloud nine,
you ain't got no responsibility,
and ev'ry man, ev'ry man is free;
cloud nine,
and you're a million miles from reality:
reality, I wanna say,
up-a, higher, up-a, up, up and away.
Cloud nine,
I wanna say I love the life I live,
and I'm gonna live the life I love
up here on cloud nine.
I, I, I, I, I, I'm ridin' hi-igh.
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, wanna say,
up-a, higher, up-a, up, up and away.
Cloud nine,
and you can be what you wanna be.
Cloud nine,
you ain't got no responsibility.
Cloud nine,
ev'ry man, ev'ry man is free.
Cloud nine,
you're a million miles from reality.
Cloud nine,
you can be what you wanna be.
Boo boo, boo boo boo boo.
Boo boo, boo boo boo boo.
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