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Way

There is a way that you’re looking at me baby
like you’re caught between heaven and hell
there was a day when that look could have tamed me
when my affection wasn’t mine to sell

there was a way you decided to tantalize me
for a while I decided to let you stay
a way you conspired to strategize me
I played that for a day
there was a way that you slid right up sideways to me
maybe I’ll wait awhile ‘fore I slide
a way that you’re thinking you got me figured out
I let you think that way

It’s so easy to play when the doors are closed behind us baby
and I like to do my playin’ when I can
some voices well they tell me to stay others tell me to go now
but those voices never had themselves no kind of man

well there’s a way you decided to tantalize me
for a while I decided to let you stay
a way you conspired to strategize me
I played that for a day
there was a day when sweet talking would satisfy me
or a way I’d allow myself to pretend
a day when I’d settle for your cheap candy
that day is at its end

I feel today
there’s a rhythm rising round me baby
and its hittin’ me
and going over your head
well I’ve got to say
I got to say that it’s time that you go now
if it isn’t something that I already said

words by Jen Chapin music by Jen Chapin and Mark Zubek © 1996 Purple Chair Music (ASCAP)

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from Open Wide, released October 29, 2002

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Stephan Crump Brooklyn, New York

Memphis-bred, Grammy-nominated, Echo Award-winning bassist/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with fourteen critically-acclaimed album releases in addition to numerous film scoring contributions. Known for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull, his focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many leading lights of his generation. ... more

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