Keith Sweat

Released: November 8, 2012

Can I take you back, I take you back
Can I take you back, I take you back girl
To the candy store, oh yeah
Can I take you back, I take you back
Can I take you back, I take you back girl
To the candy store, candy store
I took a trip to where we used to live
… a girl… that name and asking
… as the door, had a sign that said she don’t live here no more
Went to the neighbors asked because…
You’re the only one for me
Love’s the only thing in life that will free
Now all I have left is just a memory
I remember when you were young
Back in the days of bubblegum
And the only thing that’s better than life
Was the candy store, down on the corner
All the kids in the neighborhood
Would get money from the parents if they were good
And we were good, we would all gather around the candy store
Down on the corner
That’s when I first saw you girl, yeah, yeah, yeah
Looking so sweet, I said, how do you do, at the candy store
Down on the corner
You were my girlfriend, I was your boyfriend…
I met you, at the candy store
I remember when you were young
Back in the days of bubblegum
And the only thing that’s better than life
Was the candy store, down on the corner
All the kids in the neighborhood
Would get money from the parents if they were good
And we were good, we would all gather around the candy store
Down on the corner
… in the back… moved top…the games…
Holler at the Shawty, … bottoms with tops
… to the back… have a girlfriend, carved her name on a tree
Now all I have left is just a memory
Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac, all dressed in black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back
She asked her mother, mother, mother for 15 cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence
I remember when you were young
Back in the days of bubblegum
And the only thing that’s better than life
Was the candy store, down on the corner
All the kids in the neighborhood
Would get money from the parents if they were good
And we were good, we would all gather around the candy store
Down on the corner

Keith Sweat is an R&B singer-songwriter from New York. He helped innovate the New Jack Swing genre with his first album in 1987, Make It Last Forever, which featured the upbeat “I Want Her” and the provocative title track.

Almost a decade later, Sweat found the R&B groups Silk and Kut Klose and signed them to his own record label. His fifth album, which was self-titled and released in 1996, resulted in the certified-platinum hits, “Twisted” and “Nobody.” He went on to win “Favorite Male R&B/Soul Artist” at the 1997 American Music Awards.

Currently, he hosts a syndicated R&B radio show in New York City.

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