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"Let's Stay Together" - Al Green

The quiet of today made me sleepy, something I haven't been in a while so I almost didn't know what to do with myself. I felt like I drank a bottle of NyQuil and all I wanted to do was lock the door, turn off my computer, turn up the ac and knock out over my good ol' gallery rug. I stood up to get my blood flowing. It didn't work. I pulled away from my desk and walked to the main lobby and back to stretch out. Still didn't work. Not a lot of people showed up so in my zombie-like state I was on the hunt for someone to bring me back to life. I popped my head into the office next door and asked the Operations Team to take a ride with me. I needed to take a few training supplies to another location so I thought what better reason to get out!

We piled into a very used, forest green minivan. The sun was warm, but the ac took a while to kick into gear. The radio stations weren't set up and the antenna was a mess so we had to scan for a signal to find something decent to listen to. Static after endless static later, we were stuck on a Vietnamese talk show when none of us spoke Vietnamese. It was going to be a long ride until finally this song came through the airwaves.

I pulled my seat back, closed my eyes and reminisced to the Summer of '94. To plaid button-ups and baggy jeans. To dark lip-liner and high-tops. To curly hair and fades. To carrying your backpack on one shoulder vs. two. It was a time when only one person in the bunch had a car and that person just happened to be my first official boyfriend. With only a few dollars to our names, he would take my older sis, her bf and me out on the town and we would see just how far that dollar could stretch. We'd sneak into cheap matinees, share meals at fast-food joints, and walk around in the mall even if we couldn't buy anything. It was just us four, riding around in his little, white sports car and loving every minute we got a chance to get away.

Lyrics:

(Let's stay together)
I'm, I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
It's alright with me
'Cause you make me feel so brand new
I want to spend my life with you
Me sayin' since baby, since we've been together
Ooh, loving you forever
Is what I need
Let me be the one you come running to
I'll never be untrue

Ooh, baby, let's, let's stay together
Loving you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad
Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad

Why somebody, why people break up?
Oh, turn around and make up
I just can't see
You'd never do that to me (Would you, baby?)
So to be around you is all I see
Is what I want us to
Let's, we ought to stay together
Loving you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad

Let's, let's stay together
Loving you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad


http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/al-green-lyrics/let_s-stay-together-lyrics.html
http://www.thelyricarchive.com/artist/5391/Al-Green

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