Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The First Five Chapters, artist - Dianne Reeves. Album song In The Moment - Live In Concert, in the genre Date of issue: 31.12.1999
Record label: Blue Note
Song language: English
The First Five Chapters |
| Yesterdays… Yesterdays… Yesterdays |
| If you want to clap your hands it’s okay |
| If you want to snap your fingers it’s all right |
| Such a nice groove |
| For some nice folks |
| I want to tell you a story |
| About how I started out |
| I believe the year was 1976 |
| When I decided to leave my home you see |
| It was time for me to go out into the world and to seek my fortune |
| I had a choice |
| I could either be starved and be cold |
| And move to the east |
| Or starve and be hot |
| So hot you see and move to the west |
| I picked LA |
| I wanna share with you the first five chapters of my life |
| Chapter One |
| I was walking down the street |
| With my head held high and my pockets filled with dreams |
| And I feel into a hole |
| I said to myself who put that hole there |
| Whoever put it there sure is mean |
| So I picked myself up out of the hole |
| Dusted myself off and went on my merry way |
| Chapter Two |
| I was walking down the same street |
| Feeling good |
| And I fell into a hole |
| I said to myself who put this hole there |
| Whoever put it there sure is mean |
| So I climbed up out of the hole and I dusted myself off went on my way |
| And remember thinking not everybody loves you like your mother |
| Chapter Three |
| I was walking down the same street |
| When I fell, oh yes I fell I tumbled hard this time |
| Down the same hole |
| I said to myself |
| I know this hole |
| I’ve been here before and I don’t want to come back no more |
| So I picked myself up out of the hole |
| Dusted myself off |
| Said hole you ain’t gonna get me no more |
| Well… Chapter 4 |
| I was walking down the same street |
| I like to flurt with danger |
| That’s my nature |
| But this time I saw the hole and I jumped over the hole |
| I said hole you won’t get me no more |
| I kicked some dirt into the hole |
| Well now |
| That I learned how to live |
| I’m living what I learned |
| So I’m in chapter five right here right now |
| And I’m walking down a new street |
| Feelin' healthy |
| Feelin' fine |
| Feelin' prosperous oh the whole the world is mine |
| I take my time |
| Do as I Please |
| Please when I want to |
| It sure feels good |
| They say life begins after that number and it sure does |
| Yesterday Yesterday Yesterdays |
| I love Yesterdays |
| Yesterdays |
| Now I’m thinking about today |