Manhattan Transfer - (THE WORD OF) CONFIRMATION lyrics

I'm here to just confirm what I've been

really always sayin'

About modern jazz

It's the savior of the nation

And I'll believe it if you do too

The rhythm & blues

Like Bird

When he thought of this melody

The message he played on his horn

Was the steady confirmation

That he discovered

The sound that makes the music be free

This may sound unstable

But I know I'm able to concentrate in song to you

My lyrics may go fast

Sometimes a word may get past folks

But so I keep it swingin'

I know I've got to stay true

So like the Bird I'm gonna say that jazz is always

A happiness groove

So come on and I'll confirm it

'Cause certainly the Bird that I heard

made the word of confirmation