| Ev’rybody wants somethin' for nothin'
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| Yeah, they all want it fo free
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| These days, now nothin' cost ya somethin'
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| No tellin' what it could be
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| Never happen if ya never try
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| All the nights awake and the tears we’ve cried
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| Could fill the seven seas
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| So, c’mon, ev’rybody, c’mon, ev’rybody
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| We got to give ourselves, got to give ourselves a hand
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| And if we feel it’s all a mess, yeah, yeah
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| Why don’t we try a little, try a little love 'n' tenderness
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| If we got more than comes around, yeah, yeah
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| Why don’t we care a little, share a little
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| Sure to come back around. | 
| Guitar!
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| Lately everybody’s thinkin'
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| Me, my, only I thinkin' for me
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| Here lately, everbody’s talkin', baby
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| But we all know that talk is cheap
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| We can make it happen if we make a try
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| All the nights awake and the tears we’ve cried
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| Could fill the seven seas
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| So, c’mon, ev’rybody, c’mon, ev’rybody
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| We gotta give ourselves, gotta give ourselves a hand, yeah
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| And before it falls apart, yeah, yeah
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| Why don’t we live a little, give a little, straight from the heart
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| And if this old world gets ya down, yeah, yeah
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| You gotta pick it up and toss it in the air, kick it all around. | 
| Kick it!
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| I don’t even know how I wanna say, but I know what I wanna say
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| Do you know where I’m comin' from?
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| As the bass plays on, and still the guitars strum
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| While the Colonel beats the drum, so the whole band plays along
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| And the whole world sings a song, yeah
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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| And before it falls apart, yeah, yeah
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| Live a little, give a little, straight from the heart
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| If this whole world gets ya down, yeah, yeah
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| You gotta pick it up and toss it in the air. | 
| Kick it all around
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| And if you don’t like the way the music plays, the way it sounds
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| Hop back in the kitchen, change it all around
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| Stir it up, baby. | 
| Stir it up, baby, stir it up
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| Stir it up, stir it up, stir it up
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| Stir it up now, stir it up, baby
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| Stir it up, baby, stir it up, baby, stir it up
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| Stir it up, stir it up, stir it up, stir it up
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| Stir it up now, stir it up, baby. | 
| And you know:
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| Nobody gets somethin' for nothin'
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| Nobody’s gettin' it for free. | 
| (Spoken:) But you know
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| These days now nothin' costs ya somethin', baby
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| And-a there ain’t no tellin what it could be
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| So stir it up, baby, stir it up, baby
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| Stir it up, baby, stir it up, baby
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| Stir, stir it up, baby, stir it up, baby
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| Oh, U B U and I’ll be me, and the world will be free |