It’s Too Bad Lyrics

It′s too bad
Lord, my brother can't be here today
It′s too bad
My brother can't be here today, yeah
But one time he came around to my house, you know
And I was kinda like out of my mind and I sent him a-cryin' away

I said, "Baby, yeah, yeah
Hear me cry
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, hear, hear, hear me cry"

Remember that room full of mirrors I was tellin′ you about?

I said, "Brother, don′t tell me you come around here
To hustle like the rest of the people do"
I said, "Brother, brother
Don't tell me you came around here hustlin′
Like the rest of those people do"
And he said, "No, no, brother Jim"
He said, "I'm just comin′ here lookin' for life just like you do"
He said, "Don′t forget I'm your brother, baby"

I said, "That's what happens sometimes
When you lose yourself in nothin′"
And he looked at me, you know, he seen
These two blondes layin′ around next to me
I said, "Lord, please don't lose yourself, baby
That′s what happens when you lose yourself on nothin'"
He said, "Baby, you know me, I′m your brother
Please don't take me for nothin′"

It's too bad, too bad
Lord, my brother just can't be here with me today
It′s too bad
My brother can′t be here with me today

But he came around to my house and I asked for me to help him
I said, "Man, go ahead on in your hustlin' way"
Yeah
And I think they sent him away to the war today
So I′m away across the tracks (Way across the tracks)
And man, they treat me the same as you do
Well, I go way back over across the tracks
And they treat me the same as you do

Until you come back completely black
Go back where you came from too