The Way You Do the Things You Do

You got a smile so bright

You know you coulda been a candle

I'm holdin' you so tight

You know you coulda been a handle

The way you swept me off my feet

You know you coulda been a broom

The way you smell so sweet

You know you coulda been some perfume

Well, you coulda been anything that you wanted to

And I can tell the way you do the things you do

(The way you do the things you do) Oh, yeah

(The way you do the things you do) Yeah

As pretty as you are

You know you coulda been a flower

If good looks was a minute

You know that you could be an hour

Oh, the way you stole my heart

You know you coulda been a cool crook

And, baby, you're so smart

You know you should've been a school book

Well, you coulda been anything that you wanted to

And I can tell the way you do the things you do

(The way you do the things you do)

The way you do the things you do

Look at that, our first song on the charts

Took us twenty-four singles before we got it

Definitely didn't think we had a hit with those lyrics

You got a smile so bright

You know you could've been a candle

Ain't exactly Langston Hughes

But we made history together, all of us

Buildin' this group was some kind of testimony of will

Like a shepherd herdin' sheep up the mountain

To stand before the Almighty

When you finally reach the summit

You realize all the flock has scattered and you the only one left

That's when it's time to revisit your journey

Measure if it was worth the cost of losin' your brothers

David, Eddie, Paul, Melvin

The classic men who built The Temptations

With these men, oh, I felt the most magic I ever felt in my life

But if I'm gon' be measured right

I got to start at the beginning