This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Turn me up (feel me like) let me get a feeling of who love me
And who I love (that's what it's all about though)
You understand?
First you got to know how to move (the forecast calls for)
Then you got to know how to make moves (straight up)
All y'all
It's eternal (what?)
(We getting on the ninety five?) Yea I like that word
(Yo) we bringing it from here (don't drive too close to the 'heava' nigga)
Understand? (Come on) let's go let's go let's go
Yea that's right (right)
What up? So what is it called? (you know what its called kid)
Yo (how much I, how much I implement my thoughts to you?)
Yo, hey yo shout out New York
Philadelphia my sword talk
Praises due
The block favors you
New Jers with the guerillas with the most sexiest birds
Vehicles and shit shout out your word
Fox premier
My niggas in Connecticut yea
Upstate, Albany got love here
Rochester all the way down to stretcher
You large Long Island niggas definitely paint a picture
Chicago peace
Maryland take cheese
Baltimore lock it all down yo lets increase
Boston stay flossing
My eye like Steve Austin
Seeing how y'all bought Rae fortune
Texas yo
How many lexuses y'all goin' flow
y'all niggas doing it is love yo
Miami and North Carolina like family yea
Spoil a nigga like kids with cotton candy
Yo Va. all the money makers generate
Shorty driving around still making ten a day
L.A. yep its real when they tell me
Yep I know it's ill 'cause police tried to kill me
And oh let's politic and make dido
D.C. I hope y'all feel me when I ble-do
Atl., Tennessee ring bells
Out in Ohio bumping twenty inch wheels
Yea San Franciso, Vegas, Illinois, Dallas
Minneapolis cats rap with us
Michigan yea Rollie Derm burn
Phoenix, Sacramento really care
Bitches on the air
Portland, Buffalo, Toronto
Stay Brolic in the Giants like the Denver Broncos
Yo South Carolina bring the drama
Still in all like the way she ball
Yea she yelling she my baby mama
Japan coma
London, Germany, China holla
Africa my brother
Russia light a dutch up
Indiana where they all throw scramblers and they cut ya'
Jamaica yep Bahamas
And we honor everything
Homage
Looking Guyanese in Ghana
Detroit saying go head do your thing boy
Puerto Rico come on through Raekwon my boy!
Louisiana and Canada
St. Louis, Florida you're on what? Candid Camera
He like master in Nebraska
Fleeing in white mink on god G-ing in Alaska
Laid up Brazil play real
Got like fifty K in a briefcase Rae'll chill
What? You know the plan
Laying up in Amsterdam
Blowing nine grand
Batting a white man
Oooooo tell me it's me you want baby
Got to tell me
Why don't you tell me girl?
Tell me its me you want baby
Ooooo
Aaaaaaa
Ha ha ha ha
And who I love (that's what it's all about though)
You understand?
First you got to know how to move (the forecast calls for)
Then you got to know how to make moves (straight up)
All y'all
It's eternal (what?)
(We getting on the ninety five?) Yea I like that word
(Yo) we bringing it from here (don't drive too close to the 'heava' nigga)
Understand? (Come on) let's go let's go let's go
Yea that's right (right)
What up? So what is it called? (you know what its called kid)
Yo (how much I, how much I implement my thoughts to you?)
Yo, hey yo shout out New York
Philadelphia my sword talk
Praises due
The block favors you
New Jers with the guerillas with the most sexiest birds
Vehicles and shit shout out your word
Fox premier
My niggas in Connecticut yea
Upstate, Albany got love here
Rochester all the way down to stretcher
You large Long Island niggas definitely paint a picture
Chicago peace
Maryland take cheese
Baltimore lock it all down yo lets increase
Boston stay flossing
My eye like Steve Austin
Seeing how y'all bought Rae fortune
Texas yo
How many lexuses y'all goin' flow
y'all niggas doing it is love yo
Miami and North Carolina like family yea
Spoil a nigga like kids with cotton candy
Yo Va. all the money makers generate
Shorty driving around still making ten a day
L.A. yep its real when they tell me
Yep I know it's ill 'cause police tried to kill me
And oh let's politic and make dido
D.C. I hope y'all feel me when I ble-do
Atl., Tennessee ring bells
Out in Ohio bumping twenty inch wheels
Yea San Franciso, Vegas, Illinois, Dallas
Minneapolis cats rap with us
Michigan yea Rollie Derm burn
Phoenix, Sacramento really care
Bitches on the air
Portland, Buffalo, Toronto
Stay Brolic in the Giants like the Denver Broncos
Yo South Carolina bring the drama
Still in all like the way she ball
Yea she yelling she my baby mama
Japan coma
London, Germany, China holla
Africa my brother
Russia light a dutch up
Indiana where they all throw scramblers and they cut ya'
Jamaica yep Bahamas
And we honor everything
Homage
Looking Guyanese in Ghana
Detroit saying go head do your thing boy
Puerto Rico come on through Raekwon my boy!
Louisiana and Canada
St. Louis, Florida you're on what? Candid Camera
He like master in Nebraska
Fleeing in white mink on god G-ing in Alaska
Laid up Brazil play real
Got like fifty K in a briefcase Rae'll chill
What? You know the plan
Laying up in Amsterdam
Blowing nine grand
Batting a white man
Oooooo tell me it's me you want baby
Got to tell me
Why don't you tell me girl?
Tell me its me you want baby
Ooooo
Aaaaaaa
Ha ha ha ha
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Forecast Lyrics as written by Teddy Riley Keith Sweat
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