[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?[04:54.962]