{ verse one ]

It's high now

So low it's high

Like this, check it out yo



Took a trip on a bus that didn't know

Met a girl sellin' drinks at the disco

Said truth comes back when you let it go

Seems complicated cause it's really so simple

Walkin' down Yonge Street on a Friday

Can't follow them, gotta do it my way

No fast lane, still on a highway

Movin' in and out, no doubt it's the right...



Chorus [ repeat 2x ]



No time to get down cause I'm moving up

No time to get down cause I'm moving up

No time to get down cause I'm moving up

Ahh, haa... check out the crabs in the bucket



[ verse two ]

It's like this, you know what i mean..

It's like flys on the windscreen,  writing on walls

square these clones claim there havin a ball

foolin' themselves just before last call

Tic-a-tic-a-toc tic-a-tic-a-toc

Clock strikes twelve, clock strikes one

Smoking gun put these fools on the run

I know it's not that simple, I know it's not that hard

when there's...



Chorus [ repeat 2x ]



No time to get down cause I'm moving up

No time to get down cause I'm moving up

No time to get down cause I'm moving up

Ahh, haa... check out the crabs in the bucket



[ verse three ]

Yeah na I mean

Yeah, I heard you man, yo, check, yo,



It's a conniption, fit in the microphones flit

I take it higher like a bird on a wire, retire the fire

I never cause I'm just moving on up

Chewsin' to touch, the unseen, craving the clutch

The most inevitable, legible pyro-mania

Slaying the devil, and send em back to Transylvania

Strangely enough, I am on that side of the ghetto

From my heavy metal, will settle the puppets like Gepetto

Damm, if mirrors where created by sand

when I'm looking in the water for reflections of man

Understand the minds above time when it's empty

Emcee, tragically hip ahead by a century



Chorus [ repeat 2x ]



No time to get down cause I'm moving up

No time to get down cause I'm moving up

No time to get down cause I'm moving up

Ahh, haa... check out the crabs in the bucket