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Part 9: U.S. One (Rhythm Ballad Anthology)

 

This is
my Street!
I mean it's spring time
& the name is U.S. One —
It's where you turn off the main strip
after drive'n down out of Emporia Gardens
& then you follow side roads east & west
until you arrive at the best place of all —
it's my corner of WindowWorld
across from WalMart
on U.S. One —

Let me show you the way it is
all over this neighborhood
along Route One —

I'm walk'n down it break'n open stride
& talk'n on top of the world 'bout this
wide unobstructed avenue —
& feel'n love is on the up open side —
I'm talk'n a-bout grow'n up & show'n up
& love'n all those unexpected melodies here on the open side
I'm talk'n about the attitude —

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I'm walk'n — lah!
I'm talk'n — hah!
I'm take'n — hum!
I'm break'n — shum!
Uh bid ee uhm!

I'm walk'n down it break it open-stride
uh-now-I'm talk'n 'bout the
gro-w'n up & show'n up & gow'n & uh oh-w'n woh-w'n
uh love'n all the unexpected —

Talk'n bout the
shah dah shake'n break'n break it open woh-w'n open woh-w'n wide
& woh-w'n oh-w'n love'n side —
lah dah live'n love'n unexpected
uhm show'n uhm go-i'n uhm shah dah lah dah dah dah grattitutde —
& show'n lah dah grattitude
& talk'n gah mah in the garden shah dah lah dah
I'm shake'n in the garden show'n attitude —

What attitude?

What I'm say'n is —
what I'm give'n you —
a clue to what the mood is all a-bout —
a clue to what the mood of people avenue is
rake'n shake'n sha ba bake'n all a-bout —
a tip off on the play of things the say of things the way of things —
I'm signify'n 'bout the intimate why of things the
unexpected relationships —

'Bout how people get chance on this —
how people get chance on this
highway romance—

You'll see 'em—

Brother sister—

They come along & every-day & look-fresh look'n
fa-a-ar beyond the neon flash signs &
populate'n all the way to WalMart & World Street &
some have found their Planet Avenue
to grow love upon —

I'm say'n lah dah shah dah shake'n dah dah
lah dah grow'n love upon —

What most
folks appreciate
is the never end'n new attractions —
they will satisfy your soul —
this Street will
tru-u-ly overwhelm your mind
whatever your taste — hey! maybe this is —

Maybe this is clean street — hey!
maybe this is maybe this is mean street lean street — hey!
maybe green street speed street maybe this is Street Deep
runn'n all down the face of the Earth—

& it's puls'n with the finger-popp'n beat of prime time music —
& it's gett'n with the
rhythm feel'n like I'm
ride'n high on this highway —
& it's leap'n into hig rise & sky-imagination —

& we're soak'n up the situation
& soak'n it up — lah!
& soak'n it up — hah!
& soak'n it up — sah!
& soak'n it up — shum!
uh bid ee uhm!

Listen you can hear the CA-REE-EE! SCA-REE-EE! of
Steel belted never end'n new parade of people
Roll'n tumble'n all over the green of this Land —

You can hear the earth-listen people & the earth watch people &
gah mah grow'n people & lah dah love'n people — this is what it sounds like
with steel all around I'm tool'n all around
all the way joy around the curves in this highway —
I'm feel'n on the up open side & love is open'n wide —
I know the reason for being here —
& now I know the ease on love —
& now I have another chance —
& now I have another chance —

Let me say you let me — lah!
let me say you let me — hah!
let me say you let me — hum!
let me say you let me shum!
takkata jhum—uh bid ee um!

Let me call you let me say you
way no day no let me call you sha dah lah dah —

Let me say you way no say it way it
ah wanna ah wah say it wana lah dah love it
lah dah looh dooh love it live it give it I've it —

Say it way it take it takka talk it break it broke it
tokko takka take it shum!

Say'n it lah!
say'n it hey! lah!
say'n it hey! say! lah!
say'n it hey! say! hah! lah!

& it's spring time
in the sky line
the name is US1
the name is Fast Here
the game is we've —
we've time with the fast lane
the last lane lah dah dah dah
connected breezy on the parkway into twilight
melting into metro all along the windows —

I'm talk'n gah mah in the garden shah dah lah dah
I'm shake'n in the garden show'n attitude
I'm drive'n down Emporia Gardens
into World Street
into Planet Avenue
populate-n all the way to Street Deep
we're wheel'n unwind'n we're lights bright & drive'n
high along the skyline lah dah love it electronic —
let's take a break in the heart of —
let's take a lah dah in the looh dooh of look'n a-round love'n
clear eyed high speed season love & reason love & gotta get a little gah tah lah dah
look'n a-round forward in the heart line
& feel'n the fast lane —

& now we've got a season on love
& since I met a whole new you—

What it takes is
a look at feel'n
a drive in fee'n
a fast lane feel'n a shove in around
all over brass & glass
& maybe look'n in windows —

Wish you breezy
wish you twilight
wish you metro
wish you shah dah
wish you looh dooh lah dah
into metro breezy in electric deco
now-we've-got-an-ease-on-street
no way no way no way the shad dah lah dah
let me say you take you to the highway joint!
it winds you!
there it winds you —
& we've a point!
it's rocky out of traffic on love
the jams are bright around the lights
hey Breezy Bay & what you say
let's A-OK a smooth shift in high along —
& I get Rickety Ridge & Shaky Bridge & US1 with another chance —

A feel'n I'm lost out until I met a whole new you—
I'm look'n in windows —
who means that much?
I'm look'n in windows —
let's look around heart —
it's springtime —

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Let me call you let me say you
way no day no let me call you sha dah lah dah —

Let me say you way no lah dah say it way it
ah wah say it wana lah dah love it
lah dah looh dooh love it live it give it I've it —

Say it way it take it takka talk it break it broke it
tokko takka take it shum!

Then it happens!

I look in the window & there you are
& suddenly I'm feel'n on the up open side
& love is open'n wide
& here I am on US1 & love is for real —
with someone I can touch & see —

Who knows if I'll get another chance?
There's no way to replace someone who
means that much to you —

I need
more time
to know you —

I need more hours —
I don't want much else
there's nothing that you can get me
that I don't want —

I need you
to hold on to —
I like the feeling going across
that I can live & give something —

the neatest feeling is like —
I'm walk'n all the way joy
down world street it's a sideways built-in
upside down street & it's springtime
walkn' all the way down the avenue
with you & me —
with you & me —

& i'm feel'n on the up open side
& love is open'n wide —

As soon as I walk in
I realize this is it!
I realized why you are beautiful
& now I have another chance —
to tell you how it means something —
that's the feel'n I'm gett'n across —

Let me call you let me say you
lad dah looh dooh love it say it —
let me call you let me say you
lad dah looh dooh love it say it —

let me call you sweetheart —

I'm in love —

with you —

 

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