Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine (Single Version) - Gladys Knight/The Pips

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

We hardly had enough food or room to sleep

It was hard times Needed something

To ease my troubled mind

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 find

Depressed and downhearted

I took to Cloud Nine

I'm doin' fine up here on Cloud Nine

Listen one more time I'm doin' fine up

Here on Cloud Nine Folks down there tell me

"Give yourself a chance son don't let life pass you by"

But the world of reality is 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

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

I wanna say I love the life I live

And I'm gonna live the life

I love up here on Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

You're as free as a bird in flight (Cloud Nine)

There's no diff'rence between day and night (Cloud Nine)

It's a world of love and harmony (Cloud Nine)

You're a million miles from reality

Cloud Nine you can be what you wanna be Cloud Nine

You ain't got no responsibility and ev'ry man

(Cloud Nine)

And you're a million miles from reality

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