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Straight to the Top [Big Time]

Tom Waits
Track 5 on Big Time [CD] 

Producers

Kathleen Brennan, Chris Blackwell &
Sep. 19881 viewer

Straight to the Top [Big Time] Lyrics

I'm going straight up to the top oh yeah
Where the air is fresh and clean
I'm going up up to the top oh yeah
You know me you know what I mean
I can't let sorrow pull me on down
Live for tomorrow oh baby I have found you
I'm going straight up to the top oh yeah
Where the air is fresh and clean

I know I just can't stop oh no
Till I know I'm wild and free
I'm like a champagne bubble pop pop
I'm like those birds high up in the tree
I can't let sorrow pull me on down
Live for tomorrow yeah I have found you
I'm going straight up to the top oh yeah
Where the air is fresh and clean yeah

I can't let sorrow pull me down
Live for tomorrow oh baby oh baby
I'm going straight up to the top oh yeah
Where the air is where the air is
Where the air is where the air is
Where the air is fresh fresh and clean yeah
Fresh and clean fresh and clean
Fresh and clean fresh and clean
Fresh and clean fresh and clean fresh and clean
Get on up get on up now get on up get on up
Get on up get on up get on up get on up get on up
Get on up get on up get on up get on up get on up
Get on up get on up get on up get on up get on up
Get on up get on up get on up get on up

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Release Date
September 1988
Straight to the Top [Big Time] Is A Live Version Of
Tags
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