Must be the Music

16-inch records

8 track tapes

cassettes and Cd'

The sound of music played

on my high-fi recording machine

I was 6 years old

listening to Aeron Nevel

'Siting on the Dock of the Bay'

played Marvin Gaye

could sing every word

'Let's get it on'

was the word on the streets

everyone heard

the records played the Temptations

I knew very well

The sounds of Lionel Richie

was so cool, the Commodores ruled

I remember listening

to Glady's Knight and the Pips

'A Long Way to Georgia'

had come to this

The Soul Sisters had reminded me

the lyrics, 'We are family'

Jimmy Hendrick could play the drums

then there was Aretha Franklin

'Yellow Catalac' and Chakka Con

would sing 'I feel for you'

and the sound of music played on and on

Gillispie, Davis and B.B. King

listening to the greatest jazz ensemble

I swayed to the sounds of Nat King Cole

played the greatest notes on an album

from Smokey Robinson

I felt the notes as the songs played

I heard every word

of Bary White deep voice

of every word said

the music played

Funkadelic tunes stood in my head

my imagination would play a tune

I listened to Pattie Label sing on and on

the rhyme and rhythm of Marvin Gaye

as it played with my moods

I closed my eyes to the Syalitics

I opened my heart Rebbie Jackson

as I fell in love with old school music

the voices in my head silenced

as I listened to Miles Davis play on and on

I listened to the old school sounds

as the music played on and on