Christina Aguilera - Intro (Back to Basics) lyrics

A very pleasant good evening
Ladies and gentlemen it is now time
The one and only there never will be another
Christina Aguilera (Aguilera)
That's how music should sound

Ooh, yeah i've waited for some time to
Get inside the minds
Of every legend I've ever
Wanted to stand beside
It's like an endless ride feeling
The lows and highs
Of every lyric and melody, every single rhyme

So here I stand today, in tribute, I do pay
To those before me who laid it
Down and paved the way
And so to God I pray that
He will give me strength
To carry forward the gift of
Song in his good faith in his good faith

I'm going back to basics
To where it all began
I'm ready now to face it i wanna understand
What made the soul singers
And the blues figures, yeah
That inspired a higher generation
The jazz makers and the ground breakers
They gave so much of
Themselves and dedication

So here I stand today in tribute I do pay
To those before me who laid it
Down and paved the way ooh, yeah