Start Me Up - 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 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

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