Looking For An Echo

INTRO: VERSE: At Erasmus Hall high school we used to harmonize Me and Frankie and Adam and two Italian guys We were singing oldies but they were newies then And today when I play my old 45's I remember when VERSE: We practiced in a subway, in a lobby or a hall Crowded in a doorway singing do waps to the wall And if we went to a party and they wouldn't let us sing We'd lock ourselves in the bathroom and nobody could get in 'Cause we were looking for an echo an answer to our sound A place to be in harmony a place we'd almost found ooooh BRIDGE: And the girls would gather 'round us and our heads would really swell We'd sing songs by the Moonglows, the Harptones and the Dells And when we sang sincerely, we really sang it high Even though it was falsetto we almost reached the sky VERSE: We've sung a lot of changes since 19 55 And a lot of bad arrangements we've tried to harmonise Now they've turned into oldies but they were newies then And today when I play those old 45's I remember when 'Cause we were looking for an echo an answer to our sound A place to be in harmony a place we'd almost ... looking for an echo an answer to our sound A place to be in harmony a place we'd almost ... looking for an echo an answer to our sound A place to be in harmony a place we'd almost found