Respect Yourself

If you disrespect anybody that you run into
Then how in the world do you think anybody's supposed to respect you?
If you don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand, yeah
Just get out the way and let the gentleman do his thing, yeah ooo
You're the kind of gentleman that always want everything his way, mmm
Take the sheet off your face, boy, it's a brand new day,
Come on, come on, you've got to respect yourself
Come on, respect yourself
Oh, respect yourself, oh
Respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, no
Respect yourself, yeah
Respect yourself
Respect yourself
Respect yourself
Hey, oh
Oh, no...
(If you walk around thinking that the world owes you something cause you're here
Well, you're going out the world backwards like you did when you first come here, mmm
Keep talking about the President won't stop air pollution, oh no
Put your hand over your mouth when you cough, that'll help the solution
Yeah, you cuss around women and you don't even know their names)
Won't even know their name
(And you're dumb enough to think that'll make you a big old man, hey yeah)
(Respect yourself, yeah yeah
Respect yourself
You gotta respect yourself
Hey, respect yourself
If you don't respect yourself
Ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot, no, no
Respect yourself, yeah
Oh, respect yourself
You gotta respect yourself
Hey, respect yourself
Respect yourself) Respect yourself
(Hey, respect yourself) Ah ha
(Respect yourself) Respect yourself
(You gotta respect yourself) Oh
(Nobody's gonna do it for you
Oh yeah) Oh yeah
(You gotta respect yourself) You gotta respect yourself
(Ooo oh...) Uh...