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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Rickie Lee Jones
Guitar
David Sanborn
Alto Saxophone
Arno Lucas
Background Vocals
Joe Turano
Background Vocals
Leslie Smith
Background Vocals
Tom Scott
Tenor Saxophone
Chuck Rainey
Bass
Art Rodriguez
Drums
Steve Gadd
Drums
Victor Feldman
Percussion
Jerry Hey
Trumpet
Randy Brecker
Trumpet
David Kalish
Guitar
Weldon Parks
Guitar
Howard Feiten
Guitar
Steve Lukather
Guitar
Sal Bernardi
Vocals
Clarence McDonald
Keyboards
Neil Larsen
Keyboards
Randy Kerber
Keyboards
Russell Ferrante
Keyboards
Lenny Castro
Percussion
Donald Fagen
Synthesizer
Michael Boddicker
Synthesizer
Rob Mounsey
Synthesizer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Rickie Lee Jones
Songwriter
Nick DeCaro
Orchestrator
Ralph Burns
Orchestrator
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Russ Titelman
Producer
Lenny Waronker
Producer
Elliot Scheiner
Engineer
Ken Deane
Engineer
Lee Herschberg
Mastering Engineer
Loyd Clifft
Engineer
Mark Linett
Engineer
Steven Ettinger
Engineer
JoAnn Tominaga
Producer
Vicki Forston
Producer
Lyrics
I say, "This was no game of chicken"
You were aiming your best friend
That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck
I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad
Now its daddy on the booze
And Brando on the ice
Now it's Dean in the doorway
With one more way he can't play this scene twice
So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love
And you told her to stand tall when you kissed her
But that's not where you were thinking
How could a Natalie Wood not get
Sucked into a scene so custom tucked?
But, now, look who shows up in the same place?
In this case, I think it's better to face it
We belong together
We belong together
Once Johnny the King made a spit ring
And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man
And he entwined her in his finger
And she lay there like a baby in his hand
And climb upon the rooftop docks lookin' out on the crosstown seas
And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders
And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees
But the sailor just takes the broad down to the dark end of the fair
And he turn her into a tattoo that'll whisper
Into the back of Johnny's black hair
And now Johnny the King walks these streets without her in the rain
Lookin' for a leather jacket
And a girl who wrote her name forever
And a promise that
We belong together
Yeah, we belong together
Shall we weigh along these streets, young lions on the lam?
Are the signs you hid deep in your heart all left on neon for them?
Who are foolish, who are victim of the sailors and the ducky boys
Who would move into your eyes and lips and every tear
That falls down on the neighborhood, now
I said, "Bird, we just gotta tell them"
And they turn and ignore us
And the only heroes we got left are written right before us
And the only angel who sees us now, watches through each other's eyes
And I can hear him in every footstep's passing sigh
He goes crazy these nights watching heartbeats go by
And they whisper
We belong together, oh
But we belong together
We belong together
We belong together
Written by: Rickie Lee Jones