[Chorus]
You wanna be startin' somethin'
You gotta be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You gotta be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (Yeah, yeah)
You're too low to get under (Yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (Yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (Yeah, yeah)
It's too high to get over (Yeah, yeah)
You're too low to get under (Yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (Yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (Yеah, yeah)

[Verse 1]
I took my baby to the doctor with a fevеr
But nothin' he found
By the time this hit the street
They said she had a breakdown
Someone's always tryin'
To start my baby cryin'
Talkin', squealin', lyin'
Sayin' you just want to be startin' somethin'

[Chorus]
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You gotta be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You gotta be startin' somethin'
(Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)
...
(Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)
...
(Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)

I said you wanna be
You gotta be
I said you wanna be
You gotta be
I said you wanna be
You gotta be
I said you wanna be
You gotta be

[Instrumental Interlude]
Hee-haw!

[Verse 4]
(Yeah, yeah)
Then don't have a baby (Yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah)
If you can't feed your baby (Yeah, yeah)

[Chorus]
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You gotta be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You gotta be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (Yeah, yeah)
You're too low to get under (Yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (Yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (Yeah, yeah)
It's too high to get over (Yeah, yeah)
You're too low to get under (Yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (Yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (Yeah, yeah)