Album: Aladdin Soundtrack ( Aladim )

One Jump Ahead

Aladdin: Gotta keep
One jump ahead of the breadline
One swing ahead of the sword
I steal only what I can´t afford
( That´s Everything! )

One jump ahead of the lawmen
That´s all, and that´s no joke
These guys don´t appreciate I´m broke

Crowd: Riffraff! Street rat! Scoundrel! Take that!

Aladdin: Just a little snack, guys
Crowd: Rip him open, take it back, guys
Aladdin: I can take a hint, gotta face the facts
You´re my only friend, Abu!
Crowd: Who?

Ladies: Oh it´s sad Aladdin´s hit the bottom
He´s become a one-man rise in crime
I´d blame parents except he hasn´t got ´em
Aladdin: Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat
Tell you all about it when I got the time!

One jump ahead of the slowpokes
One skip ahead of my doom
Next time gonna use a nom de plume
One jump ahead of the hitmen
One hit ahead of the flock
I think I´ll take a stroll around the block

Crowd: Stop, thief! Vandal!
Aladdin: Abu!
Crowd: Scandal!

Aladdin: Let´s not be too hasty
Lady: Still I think he´s rather tasty
Aladdin: Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat
Otherwise we´d get along
Crowd: Wrong!

Aladdin: One jump ahead of the hoofbeats
(Vandal!)
One hop ahead of the hump
(Street rat!)
One trick ahead of disaster
(Scoundrel!)
They´re quick, but I´m much faster
(Take that!)
Here goes, better throw my hand in
Wish me happy landin´
All I gotta do is jumpREPRISE
Riffraff, street rat
I don´t buy that
If only they´d look closer
Would they see a poor boy? No, siree
They´d find out
There´s so much more to me