The term parkway has several distinct principal meanings and numerous synonyms around the world, for either a type of landscaped area or a type of road.
Over the years, many different types of roads have been labeled parkways.
The first parkways in the United States were developed during the late 19th Century by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Beatrix Farrand as roads segregated for pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, and horse carriages, such as the Eastern Parkway, which is credited as the world's first parkway, and Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, New York. The terminology "parkway" to define this type of road was coined by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted in their proposal to link city and suburban parks with "pleasure roads." Newer roads such as the Bidwell and Lincoln Parkways in Buffalo, New York were designed for automobiles and are broad and divided by large landscaped central medians. Parkways can be the approach to large urban parks, such as the Mystic Valley Parkway to Boston Common in Boston. Some separated express lanes from local lanes, though this was not always the case.
Plot
Drew is an aspiring producer from a small Midwestern city, currently residing in the South. He is fresh out of college with a degree in Music, but only a general labor job to show for it. His cousin, Lance, is a hustler from Drew's hometown, seeking to get a new lease on life and follow in his cousin's footsteps. Through one of his many connections, Lance arranges the opportunity that Drew has been thirsting for: an all-access, VIP night with some of the biggest movers and shakers in the music industry. However, there are two things standing in the way of Drew's dream evening: his company's attendance policy which won't allow him to miss work, and his overbearing, insensitive, military-minded supervisor who is determined to uphold that policy. After telling his boss that he has to attend a funeral, Drew's bluff is called and he is forced to go to the funeral to attain proof that he attended, or risk losing his job. While at the funeral, he is swept off his feet by Terricka, the niece of the deceased man, and also mistaken for someone else by Parkway, a young thug who has unfinished business with the deceased man and now thinks Drew is the man who can settle it. After being confronted and threatened by Parkway, Drew realizes that Terricka is the missing link that can help him find what Parkway is looking for and perhaps what he is looking for in the process.
Be careful what you lie for
I can go on my own way
If you believe the story
She was a secretary
Worked for some dignatary
Stuck at her desk the whole day
'Cept for the trips for coffee
(?)
In the shadow of a bad year
(?)
Looking far away from here
He felt so ordinary
Worked for this big attorney
Kept on his head phones all day
Tuning into sixties airwaves
Out on a lunch on the parkway
Was where they met each other one day
And what they found
Took them far away from here
And what they found
Took them so far away
can go on my own way
If you believe the story
She was a secretary
Worked for some dignatary
Stuck at her desk the whole day
'Cept for the trips for coffee
In the shadow of a bad year
Looking far away from here
He felt so ordinary
Worked for this big attorney
Kept on his head phones all day
Tuning into sixties airwaves
Out on a lunch on the parkway
Was where they met each other one day
And what they found
Took them far away from here
And what they found
From the first day i saw you boy you know i knew
you were made for me and i was made for you
so i approached you just to see if you were real
just to say to me boy that you had appeal yeah
spent the night then you were up and on your way
i begged and pleaded so you would not go away
so then i followed you just to see where you stayed yes
i parked my car and stayed there til the break of day
i've been
(chorus)
driving down the parkway and
parking in your driveway and
peekin through your windows yeah
just to see if you're alone
i've been
driving down the parkway and
parking in your driveway and
peekin through your key holes yeah
just to see if you're alone
remember when you went out with that other chick...
you took her home and then you gave her all my d**k
now i hope you don't think that you was being slick
i'm warning you that i am not your average b***h
see you hurt my feelins and you really hurt my pride
cause another b***h was jumpin on my ride
so now my feelins for you baby i can't hide
snuck in you house and in her drink put cyanide
i've been
(chorus)
murder they screamed and so to you they put the blame
now off to jail you go now baby that's shame
but all the while you're screamin that your ass was framed
should not have fucked with me, cause vengence is my name
well, from the first day i saw you boy you know i knew
you wer made for me and i was made for you
now that you know my feelings for you were so true