It's time to take it to a small potential Beep this, and drop some game on the instrumental And it's essential that you listen close And run to tell your folks that the low can smoke First things first, since your day to birth You've been kinda confused about what your life is worth Fifty billion times your weight in gold You gotta take control, cause it's who's gonna be on You can do anything that you wanna do All you gotta do is put your brain into it Take your time and educate your mind And in the long run I'm sure you'll find That if you walk the walk, you can talk the talk But don't wait too long, cause life is short And remember, no matter what they're telling you If you try, you can be a winner too Keep on pushing, moving on up Everybody we're moving on up Moving on up, you're a winner You gotta keep pushing, moving on up Everybody we're moving on up Moving on up, you're a winner Everybody rides, men and women, boys and girls Each one teach one, but we can't save the world All in one day, you gotta take it play by play And once you're on the path, don't you ever go astray You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink You can give a man some wisdom, but you can't make him think Stitching time saves nine, dirty work gets the worm But all you can think about is getting to someone on your own If knowledge is power and power is knowledge then How's so many years since we graduated from college then? Better to be silent than be thought a fool then to Speak and remove all doubt, know what I'm talking about When opportunity knocks, you better let him in And sit him on down, and you try to be his friend In order to be a veteran first, you gotta be a beginner But if you keep on pushing, you can be a winner Keep on pushing Moving on up Everybody, we're moving on up Moving on up You're a winner You gotta keep pushing Moving on up Everybody, we're moving on up Moving on up You're a winner Red, yellow, black, white, or brown If everybody mind their business, we can all get down It all starts in the home, cause once they grown, they gone And once they on their own, you gotta leave them alone Be a leader, but if you can't be a leader Make sure your leader is a damn good teacher And imagine if you was a car and life was a race If somebody was holding your back, then you would have to give him some space Put the pedal to the metal and match that low But make sure you stay in your lane and go stroke for stroke We don't need no penalties or eliminations or disqualifications What we need is penetration, I know you heard this before But sometimes life is what you're making I ain't the one that's normal, I'm faking and perpetrating If Robert was a Einstein and Phyllis was a dealer And Michael Jackson was a thriller, then you can be a winner Don't push it, move it on up Everybody, we're moving on up Take your place in this world You gotta keep moving Everybody, we're moving on up Don't you let nobody stop you, no, no Everybody, we're moving on up You got your ways, I got my way You gotta keep pushing Moving on up Everybody, we're moving on up Don't you mind leaving here Show the world we have no fear Cause we're moving on up Moving on up Lord have mercy, we're moving on up Moving on up You're a winner Cause we're true from the grip like that We're gonna move on up Moving on up Lord have mercy, we're moving on up Moving on up Keep on pushing You gotta keep pushing Lord, you're a winner