Dennis: The childhood part of my life
 Wasn't very pretty, see...
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
 Dennis: I was born and raised
 In the slums of the city,
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
 Dennis: It was a one-room shack
 That slept ten other children beside me,
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
 Dennis: We hardly had enough food
 Or room to sleep
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
 Dennis: It was hard times...
 I needed somethin' to ease my troubled mind

 Paul: Hmmmm listen...
 My father didn't know the meaning of work
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
 Paul: He disrespected mama,
 And treated us like dirt
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
 Paul: I left home seeking a job
 That I never did find
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
 Paul: Depressed and down-hearted
 And I took to cloud nine
 Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom

 Paul: I'm doing fine
 Up here, on cloud nine
 Paul: Listen, one more time
 Paul: I'm doing fine
 Up here, on cloud nine
 Dennis: Folks down there tell me...

 Dennis: They say give yourself a chance,son,
 don't let life pass you by,
 Temptations: Woo, woo, woo-oo
 Dennis: that 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,
 Temptations: Ain't no lie
 Dennis: It ain't even safe no more
 To walk the streets at night

 Eddie: I'm doing fine
 Temptations: On cloud nine

 Dennis: Let me tell you 'bout cloud nine...
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Paul: You can be what you want to be
 Temptations: Cloud Nine
 Dennis: You ain't got no responsibility
 Temptations: Cloud Nine
 Eddie: And every man, every man is free
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Dennis: You're a million miles from reality
 Otis: Reality

 Temptations: I wanna' stay up
 Eddie and Otis: Higher
 Temptations: Up up, Up and away

 Temptations: Cloud nine

 Eddie: I wanna' say I love the life I live,
 And I'm going to 
 Eddie/Otis: live, the life I love
 Eddie: Up here on cloud nine...
 I, I, I, I, I, I'm ridin' high
 Temptations: On cloud nine

 Dennis: You're as free as a bird in flight
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Melvin: There's no difference between day and night
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Eddie: It's a world of love and harmony
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Dennis: You're a million miles from reality
 Otis: Reality

 Temptations: I wanna' stay up
 Eddie and Otis: Higher
 Temptations: Up up, up and away

 Temptations: Cloud Nine
 Paul: You can be what you want to be, ah
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Dennis: You ain't got no responsibility
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Eddie: Every man in his mind is free
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Dennis: You're a million miles from reality
 Temptations: Cloud nine
 Paul: You can be what you want to be

 Temptations: all of them weave in and out with ad libs
 and [bad word] of "Boom-booms"

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