Start me up
 Start me up

 Come down  the S to the A L T
 Come down  the Luv to the B U G
 Come down  the Spin to the D A Rella
 Come down  S T double E the E in the V
 Come down  the P to the E P A
 Come down  Idolmakers in the house  how ya know?
 Come down  to the Record Lord
 Come down...

 [Wait a minute  y'all  wait a minute
 Let's get serious for a minute
 Y'all havin' fun, I'm havin' fun
 Everybody havin' fun
 But you know those times when you get stressed out?]

 Everybody has a time in their life
 When things doesn't always go right
 It just gets harder every day
 And it makes you wanna run away
 And then I wonder where it will end
 Can I ever be myself again?
 Yo, I got hopes, and I got trust
 And I got you here to start me up

 But it's been so long that I thought I lost you
 And I felt my life was goin' nowhere without you
 I feel so strong because I have you
 Standin' by my side, baby, baby, you just got to

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 Start me up, you got to start me up
 Start me up, you got to start me up
 Start me up, you got to start me up
 Start me up, you got to start me up

 Now why you lettin' them get you down?
 Pushin' you around until now?
 What's it gonna take till you realize?
 When you gonna open up your eyes?
 And how come you don't ever kiss me
 Or even say how much you miss me?
 But I got you and we got us
 Together we can start it up

 I'm fed up (fed up), word up (dead up)
 Got to keep my head up, don't stop or let up
 You're sleepin' later, time to get your bed made up
 Always on the loose until your dude get paid up
 Paid up, wait up, I'm knockin', and I'm puffin'
 Watch television all day doin' nothing
 Pushing in your liver, looks like you're ready to deliver
 Yo, Salt, I think it's a caesar

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 Well-a, well-a, w-h-h-hell-a
 You're caught in the rain, but you forgot your umbrella
 Oooo, what could you do punch-a-nella, punch-a-nella?
 You're trapped in a cage like an ape called Magilla
 And now you're ready to throw in the towel, that's kinda foul
 You don't give a hoot like a mute owl
 That's not the way I know you to be
 You used to be true to me, oooo-whee, what you used to do to me
 Shows that you got a lot to offer
 So brother just get offa your butt because it's gonna cost ya
 It rips me apart to see you like this
 Me and you might just be able to fight this so baby

 Start me up, you got to start me up
 Start me up, you got to start me up

 Yo, wait a minute (what up?), yo, you gotta wait a minute
 You didn't think that you would hear the "yo"
 Without the Turner Brother's in it?
 Huh, I pull the rank like a luitenent
 So when I said start me up, girl, I meant it
 You better set (set), set it off lady
 The brothers from Haiti ???
 Serious, we get big, busy, and delirious
 Say Pep, hit me off with the lyrics

 Pepa ade donet
 So people come follow
 Now easy dibe gal
 Ca me a big mama
 Topin at the period
 An passin' ponda coma
 So poom poom breat
 Sav de drumma fe ya fadda
 Cos me ruff
 Ruff 'n tuff 'n
 Rugged 'n stuff
 Me might roll upa blunt
 'N tek a lickle(wah)
 Lick shot 'n' all
 A uno will drop(wah)
 See my crutches never fail me
 But it's been so long that I thought I lost you
 And I felt my life was goin' nowhere without you
 I feel so strong because I have you
 Standin' by my side, baby, baby, you just got to

 CHORUS