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Looked Better from Across the Street

by Four Piece Suit

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A half-true story/daydream illustrating a universal half-truth: Sometimes the suit looked better in the shop window, and we all LOOKED BETTER FROM ACROSS THE STREET

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VERSE:
I was loungin downtown...one summer day
Mighta been uptown, mighta been May
A breeze was blowin, she was waitin for the light
With a long black skirt..looked alright
But once i was sittin in that passenger seat... I knew...

She Looked Better from Across the Street

VERSE:
I was watching the scene from a sidewalk cafe
No doubt about it,  she was headed my way
Y' know how one minute you might be hangin around.
next minute yer whole life's upside down ?
I said it one time, may I repeat...

She Looked Better from Across the Street
Looked Better from Across the Street
Looked Better from Across the Street
turned out...She Looked Better from Across the Street

Spoken over Instrumental:

She's makin a bee line..
kinda on the bias...
uh oh, now shes goin serpentine, serpentine
That can't be good...
There's some kinda Snake Farm situation goin on...

VERSE:
Well, now I'm back in that same sad Café 
a whole bunch of time has slipped away, aint it funny
how these things always seem to go
I just KNEW she was the one, what'd i know?
I musta been dizzy from the heat 

she looked better,
much better,
way better,
hella better.

might as well keep this short and sweet....  
She Looked Better from ...
well, you know where she looked better from..

OUT CHORUS
background vocs (She LOOKED BETTER FROM ACROSS THE STREET)

Spoken word over backing vocals:

I shoulda seen it
how'd i miss it? 
What? Yeah...
Musta Got somethin in my eye
Not my first cappuccino, y'know..
Not my first Ro Day O drive
just sayin
So dont I.
Ladies!!
Aw, Twist the knife
Yeah. I know
Sometimes the suit looked better in the shop window

I musta been dizzy...from the heat
[Lets face it]


She LOOKED BETTER FROM ACROSS THE STREET

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released December 22, 2022
Produced by Milt Reder

Recorded at Rear Window Recording Service, Boston, (rearwindowstudio.com), by Craig Welsch and Milt Reder
Mixed by Craig Welsch

Mastered by JJ Golden, Golden Sound, Los Angeles

Art direction: Christina Lacoste

Musicians:
Milt Reder: Lead vocal, Baritone guitar, Lap steeL guitar, Fender Bass
David Mattacks: Drums, Keyboards
Jeff Giacomelli: Baritone Saxophone
David Becker: Backing vocals

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Four Piece Suit Boston, Massachusetts

The FOUR PIECE SUIT highball is a mix of sea-foam-soaked guitar and squalling tenor sax, with surf tangos, Battista-era mambos, beach blanket boppers, spy music, crime jazz. With romance, humor, and sophistication (HBO "Sex and the City" Soundtrack), 4PS started as an Instrumental quartet, and has evolved over 25 years into its own musical world, with songs that tell stories in many ways. ... more

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