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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Kurt Elling
Lead Vocals
Charlie Hunter
Electric Guitar
Corey Fonville
Drums
Superblue
Performer
DJ Harrison
Piano
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Kurt Elling
Lyrics
Phil Galdston
Lyrics
Don Was
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Kurt Elling
Producer
Charlie Hunter
Producer
Corey Fonville
Producer
DJ Harrison
Producer
Adrian Olsen
Mixing Engineer
Dave McNair
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
Hung from the heat
Drugged from the day
Let night's velvet glove
Take you away
Pounding that beat
Making your play
Making your play
When push comes to shove
Step right this way
Freeman Square
Grab that groove and climb the stair
All the best folks meeting there
Out of the glare
Out of the glare
Vibe all night
Let that high life treat you right
Light your inner Buddha sight
Shiny and bright
Dig how the night's an ocean teaming around you
Calling for you to be as free, as your dreamy spirit wants you to be
It's not just black & white
And it's also golden-bright now
And it's a green as ever was seen
A pyrotechnic kinda' sheen
A laughing clown a fountain of eau-de-vie, now
An iridescent spree now
And it's crimson, and yellow, and orange-o, and violet
Like Violet B was with her ever-lasting gob
Stopping mid chew
When she found a purple-berry pie
When the intro of a very weird gum chew as done, over & through
Let's be kings of the nighttime scene
Two mannish cats who bust out of the seams of what it means
Listen, Sonny, we need no money
I've got a stock of lines within me
Guaranteed to open what's shut
What? I'ma cat who struts uncut
Stalking the halls of every club you can conceive, imagine or dream up
I've got an Ali Baba syllable team-up
Greases up a doorman's id satisfaction, a califacaent
Mixing a tonic fix
To overcome any guest-list, diss twist upon a late arrival
It's club survival
And when the sun is bumping up
I can dig Sonny strutting into the light
You're boogien' and cooking with the grooviest women there
Shutting down the night, it's Sonny! (Sonny)
You might now want to electively put your butt in your chair
To help the thinking that you're drinking sink in
There's nothing Willie can come through with that you cannot crew with within your own mindset and dig it
Unless you're Miles Davis there's always some brother
Some mother smoother than you
You, you, you
So don't you worry 'bout a thing
Bout a thing
Don't you worry 'bout a thing
You've got plenty of bells to ring
So grab that bad thing you bring, and swing on down to Freeman Square
Freeman Square
Grab that groove and climb the stair
All the best folks meeting there
Man, you can rest when you're dead, when the urge isn't there
Out of the glare
Vibe all night
Let that high life treat you right
Light your inner Buddha sight
Shiny and bright
Written by: Don Was, Kurt Elling, Phil Galdston