[Intro: Cee-Lo Green]

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Uh-huh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

One time

More beat up in this thing, you know what I'm talkin' 'bout?

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

(Get up, get out and do something)

Southwest ATL in full effect

You have to deal with it one way or another, homeboy

[Verse 1: Macy Gray]

Like Cleopatra, got the masses at my feet

Got a living dwell down on easy street

I'm the latest craze, oh yeah

And if you stay a while

Inevitably, you're gonna my style

In your later days, well, well, well

Let me tell you what is fact and what is true

I get high a lot, ain't got much to do

I'm always in a daze, uh-huh

That was just a dream I had

Last night in my bubble bath

Next to my wishing well

Oh yeah, you gotta

[Chorus: Macy Gray]

(Get up, get out and do something)

Don't let the days of your life pass you by, you better

(Get up, get out and do something)

How will you make it if you never even try?

(Get up, get out and do something)

That's what I know, I gotta go

Yeah, get up, get out

[Verse 2: Cee-Lo Green]

Well, it's the birth of a new beginning

And the world hasn't stopped spinning

The human race is on, it ain't nann for winning

Watch out, get a watch, bracelet, and get to grinning

Prophecies, patience is truly thinning

Oh, believe me, I know how you could go low to get high

And settle for the scraps and get by

It's hard to be inspired by the words of a song if our rights aren't our own

When you're paying the cost for being lost for so long

Seeing me suffer like this stops the beat of my heart

And I'm attempting to turn this atrocity into art

And start healing, so you could stop feeling like you gotta ball

Whether it's significantly small, there's time and place for us all

There's responsibility, even in being free

In being you, in being us, in being alive

In being me, yeah, yeah

[Chorus: Macy Gray]

(Get up, get out and do something)

Your whole life, hey, hey

(Get up, get out and do something)

Can't spend your whole life tryin' to get high

(Get up, get out and do something)

'Cause you and I got to do for you and I

[Verse 3: Macy Gray]

What's been happening? How you doing? Where you been?

I'm further behind now than I was back then

Lost in some old maze, uh-huh

Some years have passed me by

All I want is to go get high

I'll get it together some other day

[Bridge: Macy Gray]

In my dreams I dwell, uh-huh

'Cause all my dreams are swell, oh yeah yeah, yeah

[Chorus: Macy Gray]

(Get up, get out and do something)

Days of your life pass you by, you got to

(Get up, get out and do something)

How will you make it if you never even try? Come on and

(Get up, get out and do something)

Get out, don't spend your whole life tryin' to get high, come on and

(Get up, get out and do something)

'Cause you and I got to do for you and I, alright

[Outro: Macy Gray]

(Get up, get out and do something)

Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Get up, get out and do something)

How will you make it if you never even try?

(Get up, get out and do something)

Why don't you

(Get up, get out and do something)

Why don't you

(Get up, get out and do something)