Key: D major
Intro 1
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Em
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Verse 1
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It's time to take you to its full potential,
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peep this
And drop some game on
the instrumental, and
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It's a symptom that you listen
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close and better tell your folks
Let the locest loc
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First things first since your
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date of birth
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You've been kinda confused
about what your life is worth
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50 million times don't wait and go
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You gotta take control
Those fools don't want to be home
Verse 2
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You can do anything that you want to do
All you got to do is to put your brain into it
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Take your time and educate your mind
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In the long run, I'm sure you're fine
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If you walk the walk, you can talk the talk
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But don't wait too long
'cause life is short
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And remember,
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no matter what they tellin' you
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If you try, you can be a winner too
Verse 3
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Keep on pushing
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Moving on up
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Everybody we're moving on up
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Moving on up
You're a winner
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You gotta keep pushing
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Moving on up
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Everybody we're moving on up
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Moving on up
Verse 4
You're a winner
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Everybody rides with the women,
boys, and girls
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Each one teach one but
we can't save the world
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All at one day you gotta
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take it play by play
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And once you're on the path,
don't you ever go this way
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If your leader wants to holla but you
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can't make him plead
You can give a man some wisdom
Verse 5
but you can't make him man feel
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Stitchin' time says nine
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The early bird gets the worm
But all you can think about is gettin
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attention for your firm
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If knowledge is power and power
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is knowledge, then
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How so many idiots
be graduating from colleges?
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Better the B- side than
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the be gotted fool
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Than to speakin' to move
all out
Verse 6
You know what I'm talking about
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When opportunity knocks,
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you better let him in and sit him on down
And try to be his friend
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In order to be a professional,
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first you got to be a beginner
But if you keep on pushing,
you can be a winner
Verse 7
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Keep on pushing
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Moving on up
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Everybody we're moving on up
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Moving on up
You're a winner
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You gotta keep pushing
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Moving on up
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Everybody we're moving on up
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Moving on up
Verse 8
You're a winner
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Red, yellow, black, white or brown
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If every mind their business,
we can all get down
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It all starts and on
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'Cause once they're grown,
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they're gone
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And once they're on their own
Verse 9
You got to leave them alone
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Be a leader but if
you can't be a leader
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Make sure your leader is
a damn good teacher and
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Imagine if you was in a car an
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d your life was wasted
Somebody was on your back and you
had to give him some space
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Put the pedal to the metal and mash out,
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loc
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But make sure you stay in your lane
Verse 10
And go stroke for stroke
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We don't need no penalties or
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eliminations or disqualifications
What we need is penetrations
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Now I know you heard this before
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but sometimes life is what you make it
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I ain't the one that's known
for faking or perpetratin'
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If Albert was an Einstein
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And Phyllis was a Diller
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And Michael Jackson was a thriller
Then you could be a winner
Verse 11
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Keep on pushing
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Moving on up
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Everybody we're moving on up
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Moving on up
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(You gotta be moving)
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Everybody we're moving
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on up
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(Don't you let nobody stop you,
no, no)
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Verse 12
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Everybody we're moving on up
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Moving on up
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You gotta keep pushing
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Moving on up
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Everybody we're moving on up
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Moving on up
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Moving on
Verse 13
up
(Lord of mercy,
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we're moving on up)
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Moving on up
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You're a winner
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Moving on up
(Lord of mercy,
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we're moving on up)
Moving on up
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(Keep on pushing)
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You gotta keep pushing
Outro 1
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