Get a Grip

Got to get a grip Skin and bones it ain't such a pity If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip I can't explain how to be fat city You gotta live large, gotta let it rip Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip rip Once upon a crime I thought I was cool but I don't want to brag Once I crossed the line I think I musta zigged when I shoulda zagged Got to get a grip Skin and bones it ain't such a pity If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip I can't explain how to be fat city You gotta live large, gotta let it rip Same old same old every day if things don't change you're just gonna rot 'Cause if you do what you've always done you'll always get what you always got Uh, could that be nothing Got to get a grip Skin and bones it ain't such a pity If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip I can't explain how to be fat city You gotta live large, gotta let it rip Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip Who knows for sure yeah without a doubt What goes on when the lights go out (what goes on when the lights go out) Or who pulls in when I pull out (or who pulls in when I pull out) And what is a one - eyed trouser trout? (Breaker, breaker, come in now forty - niner) (We have you on approach, do you read me, over) (Forty - niner, we have you on approach) (Forty - niner, do you read me) (You're losing altitude, forty - niner) (Forty - niner, Mayday, mayday, mayday, mayday) Da da da... I was so shortsighted Now the wrong been righted I feel so delighted I get so excited Skin and bones it ain't such a pity If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip I can't explain how to be fat city You gotta live large, gotta let it rip Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip You wanna get high in a New York minute Choke that smoke, honey crack the whip Your head gets dead As long as you're in it You wanna hang loose, gotta get a grip Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip