[MERCEDES with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Start me up

[MERCEDES & RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Start me up

[RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS Vocalizing]

Oh, Tommy used to work on the docks

Union’s been on strike

He’s down on his luck

It’s tough

Oh, so tough

[TINA (& BRITTANY with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

Oh, we gotta (Hold on)

[BRITTANY & TINA, (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

Ready or not (Ready or not)

[RACHEL (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

You live for the fight when that's (all that you got)

[MERCEDES & TINA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Start me up

[RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

We're halfway there

[SANTANA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Oh, woah! Livin' on a prayer

[MERCEDES & TINA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Start me up

[RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

We'll make it – I swear

[SANTANA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Oh woah! Livin' on a prayer

[MERCEDES & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

If you start me up (Uh!)

Kick on the starter give it all you got

You got it (chh), you got it (chh; you got it)

I can’t compete (Ooooo)

With the riders in the other heat

Yeah yeah! (Oh, we gotta)

[MERCEDES & SANTANA, (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

(Hold on) I'll make a grown man cry (Oh we gotta)

I'll make a grown man (Got each other)

[MERCEDES & SANTANA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Give it a shot

[MERCEDES & TINA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Start me up

[RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

We're halfway there

[SANTANA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Oh woah! Livin' on a prayer

[MERCEDES & TINA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Start me up

[RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

We'll make it – I swear

[SANTANA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Oh woah! Livin' on a prayer

[RACHEL]

Livin' on a prayer!

[TINA]

Oh we gotta

[MERCEDES with TINA, (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

Hold on, ready or not (Ready or not)

[RACHEL (with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

You live for the fight when that's (all that you got)

[RACHEL (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

Oooooh, (Start me up) We're halfway there

[MERCEDES & (SANTANA)]

We're halfway there (Woah! Livin' on a prayer!)

Livin' on a prayer!

[RACHEL & (MERCEDES)]

Take my hand and we’ll make it I swear (Mercedes: Make it I swear, yeah)

[RACHEL & SANTANA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Oooh! Livin' on a prayer!

[MERCEDES & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

Start me up (If you start me up, I'll never stop)

I’ll never stop

[SANTANA & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

Livin' on a prayer (Start me up)

[RACHEL & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS), {MERCEDES}]

Take my hand and we’ll make it I swear (If you start me up I'll never stop) {Livin' on a prayer}

Livin' on a prayer (Start me up)

Oh, we're halfway there

[SANTANA & (MERCEDES)]

Oh woah! Livin' on a prayer (Livin', on a prayer)

[RACHEL & (MERCEDES)]

Take my hand (Yeah!) and we’ll make it I swear

[MERCEDES, (SANTANA with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]

We're almost there (Ohh!)

[MERCEDES with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

We're livin' on a prayer

[RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Living on a prayer

[MERCEDES]

You gotta

[MERCEDES & RACHEL with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]

Start me up