99 Degrees

(J. Lyon/M. Noble/K. Reid)



She blew in like a hurricane

From some crazy Texas town

Rattled all the windows

And tore my playhouse down

I had a day job selling sneakers

From some shoebox on the street

She blew out all my speakers

And she charged me for the heat



Love and trouble

Now I've got 'em both in spades

Yet I ask for a bubble

99 degrees in the shade

In the shade



Say, I was linin' in a trailer park

And workin' in a bar

She said she knew astronomy

And she'd like to read my stars

Well, she could've been my astro twin

The moon lay over me

Scorpio was risin' so we jumped right into bed



Stars were fallin'

As the desert shadows played

Prairie dogs were calling

99 degrees in the shade

99 baby



She said, "Uh, honey, you know I usually get paid,

But forget the money

99 degrees in the shade"



I asked her would she stay

She said she was on the run

Some problem down in Mexico

A body and a gun

Her silver blue electraglide beckoned from the streets

For a moment I considered it

But I knew I couldn't take the heat



We said our good-byes

And I watched the taillight fade

Mercury was on the rise

99 degrees in the shade

Ah, in the shade, yea

99 and a half, baby

Well, it just won't do

I've got to have a hundred

Ah, yea, so hot, so hot, so damn hot