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4 Minutes Lyrics

(Timbaland)
I'm outta time and all I got is 4 minutes
(repeat several times)
Break down

(Madonna)
Come on boy
I've been waiting for somebody
To pick up my stroll

(Justin)
Well don't waste time
Give me a sign
Tell me how you wanna roll

(Madonna)
I want somebody to speed it up for me
Then take it down slow
There's enough room for both

(Justin)
Well, I can handle that
You just gotta show me where it's at
Are you ready to go
(Are you ready to go)

(Madonna & Justin)
If you want it
You already got it
If you thought it
It better be what you want
If you feel it
It must be real just
Say the word and I'ma give you what you want

(Madonna & Justin)
Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
Grab a boy
Grab a girl
Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
We only got 4 minutes, 4 minutes

(Madonna & Justin)
So keep it up, keep it up
Don't be a prima donna
You gotta get in line, hop
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
That's right, keep it up
Keep it up, don't be a prima donna
You gotta get in line, hop
Tick tock tick tock tick tock

(Madonna)
Sometimes I think what I need is a new intervention, yeah

(Justin)
And you know I can tell that you like it
And that it's good, by the way that you move, ooh, hey hey

(Madonna)
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, yeah

(Justin)
But if I got a night
At least I can say I did what I wanted to do
Tell me, how bout you?

(Madonna & Justin)
If you want it
You already got it
If you thought it
It better be what you want
If you feel it
It must be real just
Say the word and I'ma give you what you want

(Madonna & Justin)
Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
Grab a boy
Grab a girl
Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
We only got 4 minutes, 4 minutes

(Madonna & Justin)
So keep it up, keep it up
Don't be a prima donna
You gotta get in line, hop
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
That's right, keep it up
Keep it up, don't be a prima donna
You gotta get in line, hop
Tick tock tick tock tick tock

(Timbaland)
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This song is easy to understand! I am a Kabbalist so I know what she is meaning. Basically the "4 minutes" is a concept about not wasting time. How people think they want to do something - but they never get around to doing it. and how each minute is important. Thats why the lyric is "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". its again its about people not acting and just wasting time and thinking about it. Its also about your "Conciousness". Meaning if your head isnt in the right place - you wont get it. Which means, if you want something, your thoughts create what you want. The thin about the boy and girl - is also about how life can change by having children. Anyway, its a concept about important things are to get done, and how we all talk and dont get them done>

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Shouldn't this song be 4 minutes long though?

It is that i know of

Not Valid

Four minutes....and five seconds :/ unless it's just incorrect on my iTunes....

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...I don't know why but I'm starting to like it..I mean, I heard it in a club and it rocked!!! the lyrics are just meaningless... but still... Madonna's the queen!!!

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This song is about "The Law of Attraction". It's a warning to everyone as to what's going on on a cosmic level. If you're not familiar with Rhonda Byrnes book the secret that came out around 2006, Madonna is trying to pass on some very important information as to what's going to happen in 2012 and IS happening now. The law of attraction is a universal law that says what you put your attention on you attract. So if you say I am a healthy person you attract health, but if you say I don't want cancer...guess what you're attracting? Yup...cancer. "4 minutes to save the world is just that." 4 minutes to try to educate the masses. I teach this as well as mind, body, and spirit. Visit my website for more info on the changes we are currently going through and will go through. I have links on my links page that should help. Much love and peace!

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Madonna's a legend!

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Agreed with the preceding blogger! Here's the New Detroit Math.
Four Minutes X 30 Years =Rock Brilliance! Madonna Saved and Changed the world one brilliant song at a time after another. Music is Her American Life and Ray of Light. She Lives to Tell and Takes a Bow and that is indeed Something to Remember. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone is an American success story who made it from nothing and made something of her life-through song, dance and humanitarian work, the lady is the outcome of the happier aspects of the American Dream. Like the song says "Are you ready to go?/There's enough room for both!...Tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock..." For good ol' Madge, Music is a God-given gift of beauty. Four Minutes=Immortality. For Madonna, may it ever be so. Madonna Forever!

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She writes alot about the law of attraction and this kind of secret that she knows and she is always hinting and putting random subliminals or double meanings into her words that can be taken in so many ways that it is hard to decifer unless you are into these things, like kabbalah, law of attraction, worship of baphomet and hecate, some people translate it into even christianity although Madonna frequently bashes religion.

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This song is about taking a pill(probably MDMA) in a club and expresses the feeling of the user before and after. The first song is about a person who has the pills and sells it so it's "candy shop".

The verses in this song also prove it

"You already got it If you thought it It better be what you want If you feel it It must be real just Say the word and I'm a give you what you want"

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Love madonna. Loved confessions. Was expecting a lot more from this song. Justin sucks and he's singing most of the song, and that he's featuring madonna.. I don't think this is her best work. Its very unlike madonna to bow down and conform/copy what is popular these days. But people criticized confessions before it came out and it turned out to be a great record. Let's hope this is the worst song off hard candy.

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I HATE THIS SONG!!!

IT`S BAD AND IT SEEMS TO BE MORE A JUSTIN SONG MORE THAN A MADONNA SONG....