You're the Best Thing Since Candy - The O'Jays

I got one that I take to a honey hole Where the bluegill always bite And one that's a shortcut to anywhere As long as you ain't short on time I been down every one in this town At least a couple thousand times They can get these four wheels from A to B Oh, but they can't take me where you take me You're the best thing since backroads, baby Pedal to the medal with the windows down Sunshine setting on a cross that saved me Hanging from a rearview in red dirt clouds Two-lane heaven's one hell of a view But it ain't got nothing on you Driving this good old country boy crazy You're the best thing since backroads, baby I can show you one nobody knows It turns into Sediment Creek We can get a little moonlight, mud on the tires Baby, if you know what I mean Angel in the front seat, yeti in back Out here connecting dots on a map You're the best thing since backroads, baby Pedal to the medal with the windows down Sunshine setting on a cross that saved me Hanging from a rearview in red dirt clouds Two-lane heaven's one hell of a view But it ain't got nothing on you Driving this good old country boy crazy You're the best thing since backroads, baby Pretty as a windshield Painted with a blue sky Out here in a leather seat, seat belt buckled In the middle of July You're the best thing since backroads, baby Pedal to the medal with the windows down Sunshine setting on a cross that saved me Hanging from a rearview in red dirt clouds Two-lane heaven's one hell of a view But it ain't got nothing on you Driving this good old country boy crazy You're the best thing since backroads, baby Yeah, you're the best thing since backroads, baby Yeah, you're the best thing since backroads, baby

When you look so good, the pain in your face doesn't show When you look so good and baby, you don't even know When the world is ours but the world is not your kind of thing Full of shooting stars, brighter as they're vanishing Oh you've seen enough to know it's children who teach You're still free enough to wake up on a bed or a beach You're the best thing about me The best thing that ever happened a boy You're the best thing about me I'm the kind of trouble that you enjoy You're the best thing about me The best things are easy to destroy You're the best thing about me The best thing about me I been crying out: How bad can a good time be? Shooting off my mouth, that's another great thing about me I have everything but I feel like nothing at all There's no risky thing for a man who's determined to fall You're the best thing about me The best thing that ever happened a boy You're the best thing about me I'm the kind of trouble that you enjoy You're the best thing about me The best things are easy to destroy You're the best thing about me Why am I Why am I walking away? (Walking away) Why am I walking away? I can see it all so clearly I can see what you can't see I can see you love her loudly When she needs you quietly You're the best thing about me The best things are easy to destroy You're the best thing about me Why am I Why am I walking away? (Walking away) Why am I walking away?

I've had my share of life's ups and downs But fate's been kind, the downs have been few I guess you could say that I've been lucky And I guess you could say, it's all because of you If anyone should ever write my life story For whatever reason, there might be You'd be there between each line of pain and glory 'Cause you're the best thing that ever happened to me You're the best thing that ever happened to me Oh, there have been times when the times were so hard But somehow, some way I made it through And for every moment I've spent hurting There's been a moment spent loving you If anyone should ever write my life story For whatever reason, there might be You'd be there between each line of pain and glory 'Cause you're the best thing that ever happened to me You're the best thing that ever happened to me

Oh, yeah What a song, what a song to sing And I'm singin' my song, yeah, yeah, yeah Sing a song, yeah, yeah, yeah She faced the hardest times you would imagine And many times her eyes fought back the tears, yeah, yeah And when her youthful world was about to fall in Each time her slender shoulders Bore the weight of all her fears and a sorrow no one hear Still rings in midnight silence in her ear Let her cry for she's a lady Let her dream, she's a child Let the rain fall down upon her She's a free and gentle flower growin' wild And if by chance I should hold her, hold her Let me, let me hold her for a little while And if I had but one possession, possession I would take her from the garden to be mine, oh, yeah, yeah Be careful how you touch her for she night awaken And sleep is the only freedom that the little girl knows And when you walk into your eyes, you won't believe The way she's always payin' For a debt she never, never owed And the silent wind still blows But only she can hear, and so she goes Let her cry, oh, for she's a lady Let her dream, she is a child Let the rain fall down upon her She's a free and gentle flower growin' wild Let her cry, cry for she's a lady Let her dream and dream and dream and dream, she's a child Let the rain fall down upon her She's a free and gentle flower growin' wild She's, she's, she's a free and gentle flower, yeah, yeah I'ma tell the world about my wildflower, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Growin', growin', growin', yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh, yeah, yeah Growin', growin', growin', yeah, growin' wild She's a flower growin', growin' wild She's a flower growin', growin' wild She's a flower growin', growin' wild She's a flower growin' wild Wild, wild, la-la, growin' wild Wild, wild, la-la, growin' wild Wild, wild, la-la, growin' wild Wild, wild, la-la, growin' wild

You're the sweetest thing I know You dim the rainbow's glow There's no power on this earth To separate us, baby 'Cause you are my sunshine And you are, you are, you are mine, all mine, yeah (You are mine, all mine) When it rained on my parade You were there to lighten the way You're rare as a rose in winter You're more, more than I deserve 'Cause you, you are (You are my sunshine) You brighten up my darkest day yeah, you (You are mine, all mine) You're mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine, all mine Baby, it's you Words like darling, sweetheart, forever Girl it's you I'll always adore They only say I love you But you mean so much more 'Cause you are, you are, you are, you are (You are my sunshine) You're my sunshine, my sunshine Baby, baby, you are, you're mine (You are mine, all mine) All mine, all mine, all mine, all mine Hey you, you are (You are my sunshine) You're my sunshine, sunshine, sunshine And you're everything to me, all my [Incomprehensible] (You're mine, all mine) I gotta love you sweety, honey, baby (You are my sunshine) You are, you are, you are You're my sunshine, my sunshine, my sunshine You are (You are my sunshine) You're mine