[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