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 enough food
Or room to sleep
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
Dennis: It was hard times...
I needed somethin` to ease my troubled mind
Dennis: Oooh listen...
My father didn`t know the meaning of work
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
Dennis: He disrespected mama,
And treated us like dirt
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
Dennis: I left home seeking a job
That I never did find
Temptations: Boom, boom-boom, boom
Dennis: 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
Dennis: 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
Dennis: But the world, around you`s, is 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
Temptations: I`m doing fine
On cloud nine
Dennis: Let me tell `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
Paul: Reality
Temptations: I wanna` stay up
Eddie and Otis: Higher
Temptations: Up and up,
Up and away
Temptations: Cloud nine
Eddie: I wanna` say I love the life I live,
And I`m going to live, the life I love
Or be 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
Paul: Reality
Temptations: I wanna` stay up
Eddie and Otis: Higher
Temptations: Up and 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 choruses of "Boom-booms"
fade to end
