[00:01.424]Yo hip-hop, started out in the heart
[00:03.696]Uh-huh, yo
[00:04.767]Now everybody tryin to chart
[00:06.491]Say what? Hip-Hop, started out in the heart
[00:09.443]Yo, now everybody tryin to chart
[00:12.447]C'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon, uhh
[00:17.698]C'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon now baby c'mon
[00:24.150]C'mon baby light my fire
[00:29.453]Everything you drop is so tired
[00:35.069]Music is supposed to inspire
[00:40.790]How come we ain't gettin no higher?
[00:46.145]Now tell me your philosophy
[00:51.683]On exactly what an artist should be
[00:57.117]Should they be someone with prosperity
[01:03.020]And no concept of reality?
[01:09.081]Now, who you know without any flaws?
[01:14.357]That lives above the spiritual laws?
[01:19.948]And does anything they feel just because
[01:26.034]There's always someone there who'll applaud?
[01:31.886]C'mon baby light my fire
[01:37.293]Everything you drop is so tired
[01:43.040]Music is supposed to inspire
[01:48.526]How come we ain't gettin no higher?
[01:54.142]I know you think that you've got it all
[01:59.445]And by making other people feel small
[02:05.401]Makes you think you're unable to fall
[02:10.834]But when you do, who you gonna call?
[02:16.842]See what you give is just what you get
[02:22.328]I know it hasn't hit you yet!
[02:27.814]Now I don't mean to get you upset
[02:33.796]But every cause has an effect! Uh-huh!
[02:39.517]C'mon baby light my fire
[02:45.107]Everything you drop is so tired
[02:50.828]Music is supposed to inspire
[02:56.000]So how come we ain't gettin no higher?
[03:01.877]I cross sands in distant lands, made plans with the sheiks
[03:04.882]Why you beef with freaks as my album sales peak? Uhh
[03:08.173]All I wanted was to sell like five hundred
[03:10.498]And be a ghetto superstar since my first album, Blunted
[03:13.319]I used to work at Foot Locker, they fired me: I fronted
[03:16.219]Or I quitted, now I spit it -- however do you want it?
[03:18.883]Now you get it!
[03:19.667]Writing rhymes, in the Range, with the frames slightly tinted
[03:22.593]Then send it to your block and have my full name cemented (Lauryn Hill!) And if your lines sound like mine I'm taking a percentage (ka-ching!)
[03:28.261]Unprecedented, and still respected when it's vintage
[03:31.030]I'm serious, I'm takin over areas in Aquarius
[03:34.034]Runnin' red lights with my ten thousand chariots
[03:36.699]Just as Christ was a Superstar, you stupid, star!
[03:39.076]They'll hail you then nail you, no matter who you are
[03:41.453]They'll make you now then take you down, and make you face it
[03:44.405]If you slit the bag open, put your pinky in it and taste it
[03:47.696]C'mon baby light my fire
[03:52.895]Everything you drop is so tired
[03:58.563]Music is supposed to inspire
[04:03.944]So how come we ain't gettin no higher?
[04:09.900]C'mon baby light my fire
[04:15.438]Everything you drop is so tired
[04:21.237]Music is supposed to inspire
[04:26.410]So how come we ain't gettin no higher?
[04:32.731]C'mon baby light my fire
[04:38.060]Everything you drop is so tired
[04:43.781]Music is supposed to inspire
[04:49.241]So how come we ain't gettin no higher?
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