Rock Steady

Album: Just Gets Better with Time (1987)
Charted: 38 7
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    I looked at you
    You stole my heart
    You were all that I anticipated
    I wanted you
    Every part
    But I knew that love would be complicated

    I began to touch
    But you wouldn't let it
    It never seemed to be the right time
    I started to give up
    Down to the limit
    And then you changed your mind, oh

    And we begin to rock steady
    Steady rockin' all night long
    And we begin to rock steady
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn

    Rock steady
    Steady rockin' all night long
    Rock steady
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn

    You looked at me to my surprise
    You were through anticipating
    I should have known
    It was in your eyes
    That you were gettin' tired of waiting

    You wanted me so much
    But I didn't get it
    How could a fellow be so blind?
    I started to give up
    But love wouldn't let it
    Then you walked into my life

    And we begin to rock steady
    Steady rockin' all night long
    And we begin to rock steady
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn

    Rock steady
    Steady rockin' all night long (all night long)
    Rock steady
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn

    Rock
    Steady, baby
    Rock steady, baby
    Ooh rock, rock
    Steady, baby
    Rock steady, baby

    Rock
    Ooh, rock, rock

    You wanted me so much
    But I didn't get it
    How could a fellow be so blind?
    I started to give up
    But love wouldn't let it
    Then you walked into my life, ohh

    And we begin to rock steady
    Steady rockin' all night long
    And we begin to rock steady
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn

    Rock steady
    Steady rockin' all night long (all night long)
    Rock steady
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn

    Everybody, rock (steady rock) steady (s-s-s-steady rock)
    Steady rockin' all night long
    (Everybody's steady rockin')
    Rock steady
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn
    Rockin' 'til the break of dawn

    (Everybody's steady rockin') Writer/s: Antonio M. Reid, Boaz Watson, Kenneth Edmonds
    Publisher: Bluewater Music Corp., BMG Rights Management, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1987 {September 19th} a video of the Whispers' "Rock Steady" was aired on the nationally syndicated television program, 'Soul Train'...
    Fourteen weeks earlier "Rock Steady" peaked at #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    As noted above, it reached #7 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart...
    Between 1969 and 1997 the Los Angeles group had forty records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, fifteen made the Top 10 with two* reaching #1, the above "Rock Steady" and "And The Beats Goes On" for 5 weeks in 1980...
    Original member Nicholas Caldwell passed away at the age of 71 on January 5th, 2016...
    May he and Don Cornelius {1936 - 2012} R.I.P.
    * They just missed having a third #1 record when their "It's A Love Thing" peaked at #2 for 3 weeks in 1981, the first week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Don't Stop The Music" by Yarbrough and Peoples, for it's 2nd and 3rd week at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "Being With You" by Smokey Robinson...
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyPer: http://www.oldiesmusic.com/news.htm {01-07-2016}
    Nicholas Caldwell, one of the founders of the R&B group, the Whispers, died Tuesday (January 5th, 2016) of congestive heart failure at his home in San Francisco at the age of 71...
    All told, the Los Angeles-based group charted twenty-one times from 1970 to 1990; their biggest hit was "Rock Steady”, it peaked at #7 {for 1 week} on August 23rd, 1987...
    The Whispers were inducted into the 'Vocal Group Hall of Fame' in 2011...
    May he R.I.P.
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