Higher Lyrics

[ANNOUNCER, spoken]
Ladies and gentlemen! You've seen them live from coast to coast and now you're about to see them all together for the very first time, live on national television. Hollywood a Go-Go presents to you the fantastic, "Ike and Tina Turner Revue!"

[Instrumental]

[IKETTES]
Hey, hey, hey, hey!

[TINA, IKETTES, ALL]
Feelin's gettin' stronger
Feelin's gettin' longer too (Too)
Music's soundin' good to me
I wanna, said I wanna

I wanna take you higher
Yeah
Let me take you higher
Baby, baby, let me light your firе
Ooh, yeah
Lil' bit higher
Ooh!

Boom shaka-laka-laka
Boom shaka-laka-boom-kaboom


[IKETTES]
Hey, hеy, hey, hey
[IKE, spoken]
Come on, Tina. Get down with us tonight!

[TINA, spoken]
I can't. I have to feed baby Craig.​

[IKE, spoken]
We'll have a little ball before you go feed him.​

[TINA, spoken]
He's crying!

[IKE, spoken]
Oh, what, you're too good to get down with us?

[TINA, spoken]
Please, Ike!

[IKE, spoken]
See, I told you she was just a nitty-ass help! No matter, mo' for me and mo' for you!

[TINA, IKETTES, ALL]
Feelin' nitty-gritty
Music's in your city too (Ooh)
Music's gettin' good to me
But now don't ya, I said, don't ya
Don't ya wanna get higher?
Yeah!
Don't ya wanna get higher?
Baby, baby, let me light your fire
Ooh, yeah
Lil' bit higher
Ooh!

Boom shaka-laka-laka
Boom shaka-laka-boom-kaboom


[IKE, spoken]
Come on, Tina. We need you in the studio to record this run for us.​

[TINA, spoken]
No, Ike, it's 3:30 in the morning and the baby has been crying all night long.​

[IKE, spoken]
Get yo' ass up before I'm making nighttime for good.​

[WOMAN, spoken]
Ike! IKE!
If I can't have you, no one can!

[IKE, spoken]
Put my Beretta down!
[WOMAN, spoken]
What the—

[IKE, spoken]
Hey!

[A gunshot rings out. BANG! The woman screams.]

[IKE, spoken]
Shit! Somebody call the ambulance!

[IKETTES]
Hey, hey, hey, hey!

[TINA, IKETTES, ALL]
Feelings here to make you move
Music's here to help ya groove (Ooh)
Music's soundin' good to me
Take your places

I'm gonna take ya higher

[IKETTE #1, spoken]
Tina, are you coming with me, or what?

[TINA, spoken]
Are you crazy?

[IKETTE #1, spoken]
If you don't come in now, you're gonna end up in the hospital again. And I'm not talking about labor.​

[IKETTE #2, spoken]
She gon' end up in the morgue, more like it.​

[IKETTE #1, spoken]
It's been ten years of this. Ten! What you waitin' on? Well, if you stayin', you gon' need something to help you through. This gonna be yuor strength

[TINA spoken]
What is this?

[IKETTE #1, spoken]
Now I need you to repeat after me. Nam myoho renge kyo

[BOTH, spoken]
Nam myoho renge kyo

[TINA, spoken]
Nam myoho renge. Nam myoho— Nam myoho renge kyo. Nam myoho renge...

[TINA, IKETTES, ALL]
Ooh, baby! (Higher!)
Come on, come on, baby! (Higher!)
Ooh, yeah! Say I wanna go (Higher!)
Take me higher!
Take me (Hey, hey, hey, hey!)
(Hey, hey, hey, hey!) High—er!

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