Marvin Gaye - Cloud Nine Lyrics
(Norman WhitfieldBarrett Strong)The childhood part of my life wasn't very prettyYou see, I was born and raised in the slums of the cityIt was a one-room shack we slept in, the children beside meWe hardly had enough food or roomsIt was a hard timeNeeded somethin' to ease my troubled mind.Ooooh listenFather didn't know the meaning of workHe disrespected Mama and treated her slightlyI left home seekin' a job that I never did findThe first thing, downhearted, I took to Cloud 9I'm doin' fine up here on Cloud 9Listen, one more timeI'm doin' fine up here on Cloud 9Folks now tell meThey say, "Give yourself a chanceAnd don't let life pass you by."But the world around you is a rat raceWhere only the strong surviveIt's a dog-eat-dog world and that ain't no lieIt ain't even safe no moreTo walk the streets at nightI'm doin' fine on Cloud 9Let me tell you about Cloud 9(Cloud 9) You can be what you wanna be(Cloud 9) You ain't got no responsibility(Cloud 9) Yeah, every man, every man is free(Cloud 9) You're a million miles from reality(Reality) I wanna say (up) higher (up up and away)Cloud 9I wanna say I love the life I liveAnd I'm gonna live the life I loveUp here on Cloud 9Uh uh uh uh, I'm ridin' high on Cloud 9You're as free as a bird in flight(Cloud 9) There's no diff'rence 'tween day and night(Cloud 9) It's a world of love and harmony(Cloud 9) You're a million miles from reality(Reality) I wanna say (up) higher (up up and away)(Cloud 9) You can be what you wanna be(Cloud 9) You ain't got no responsibility(Cl
