The First Five Chapters - Dianne Reeves

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