Start Me Up Lyrics - Soundtrack Exclusives & Rarities - Salt N Pepa

You got to start me up 

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 

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