Cruisin’ Lyrics
(Cruisin')
[Verse 1]
Baby, let's cruise, away from here
Don't be confused, the way is clear
And if you want it, you got it, forever
This is not a one night stand, baby, yeah so
[Pre-Chorus]
Let the music take your mind, ooh
Just release and you will find
[Chorus]
You're gonna fly away
Glad you're goin' my way
I love it when we're cruisin' together
The music is played for love
Cruisin' is made for love
I love it when we're cruisin' together
[Verse 2]
Baby, tonight belongs to us
Everything's right, do what you must
And inch by inch, we get closer and closer
To every little part of each other, ooh baby, yeah
Let the music take your mind
Just release and you will find
[Chorus]
You're gonna fly away
Glad you're going my way
I love it when we're cruisin' together
The music is played for love
Cruisin' is made for love
I love it when we're cruisin' together
[Bridge]
(Cruise with me baby
Cruise with me baby
Cruise), hooh-hooh, yeah, oh baby
(Cruise), ow, ow
So good to cruise with you, baby
So good to cruise with you, baby
Ow, yeah
You need, baby
[Verse 3]
Baby let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide
Ooh, let's open up and go inside
And if you want it, you got it forever
I can just stay there inside you
And love you baby
Let the music, take your mind
Just release and you will find
[Chorus]
You're gonna fly away
Yeah, I'm glad you're going my way
I love it when we're cruisin' together
The music is... oh!
Cruisin' is made for love
I love it when we're cruisin' together
[Outro]
Oh, baby (We're gonna fly away)
Oh, baby (Glad you're going my way)
I love it when we're cruisin' together
The music is... oh!
Cruisin' is made for love
I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it
(We're gonna fly away), yeah
(Glad you're going my way)
I love it, when we're cruisin' together
The music is played for love
Cruisin' is made for...
I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it
I love it (We're gonna fly away)
(Glad you're going my way)
I love it when we're cruisin' together
About
“Cruisin'” became a big pop hit for Smokey Robinson, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on Billboard’s R&B Singles chart in February 1980.
Guitarist Marv Tarplin had written the music five years before Robinson came up with lyrics he was finally satisfied with. After hearing The Rascals “Groovin'”, he considered making that the main concept of the song, but later came up with “Cruisin'” instead and felt it matched the song’s ‘sensual’ sound better.
Q&A
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Robinson shared in 2009:
(Guitarist Marv Tarplin) put (the music) on cassette and gave it to me to write the lyric. As it turned out, it took me five years to write. I had the music, and that music is so intimate and sensual, but I couldn’t get the words. Then one day I got: ‘You’re gonna fly away and I’m glad you’re coming my way.’ And then I was driving my car down Sunset Boulevard and I heard that song by the Rascals, ‘Groovin’ and I thought, ‘That’s it! Grooving.’ But then, no, it wasn’t intimate enough, it wasn’t sensual enough for the music, and that’s when I thought of ‘cruisin.’ You’d be surprised by how many people speculate on what Cruisin' means, ‘Cruisin’‘ is a word that I leave up to the listener. When you’re with the person you’re with, and you feel you’re cruisin’, it’s whatever you want it to be.
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