Sweet thing, you′re dead now, you're dead
Yeah, you′re out cold, but live on
Now, now at Christmastime
And the whole year round
Right on? Right on
Look here, sweet thing, let me explain myself, baby
When I say "you're dead," I mean, you know
I mean, I mean you're really out of sight
Out of sight, totally together
But you, you let me down now
You didn′t even defend yourself
You didn′t defend yourself, nor me
And you left me like, like, oh no
I can't say this on record
But I′ma try to write this little old letter
And let you dig my little old rap
It starts like this, listen to it
For what it's worth, for what it
Could mean to you and I both, later on
Dear sweet thing, fox
And all the beautiful things
All the little names that I give you
I sit here so aggravated and bewildered
Because you didn′t, you know, you didn't come home
You didn′t come straight back to me last night
No fussin', no fightin', no nothin′
You just up and split, with another cat
Of course I found out later he was your friend, you know
And this much, this morning I was able
I was able to understand that
After a very hectic night
You can dig the night was long
Now I made it clear as possible
As possibly I could say it
Baby, don′t go to strangers
Come on home to me
Now it's true, it′s true
This is a man's world
But it wouldn′t be nothin'
Without your kind
That I see now after 24 hours of suffering
Tears, cold sweat
Why does my girl always have to be
The one to go south and go away from me?
And leave me stringin′ on a tree, dinglin' on a string
That's all right, I′ma be there when you come back
But I′ma give you this little old rap
So you can get this together, you know
Since you don't, you know
Smoke it in a pipe just to chew it
But understand what I′m sayin'
I want you to know where I′m comin' from
Now, like, I have a right, you know
To like, come on with this old aggravated or antagonizing rap
Because I feel a little down
But I think you gon′ make it all right
'Cause you just together that way
Now baby, can't you be conscious of like
Every moment in the day and the night
And let all of our moves be for each other, together, you know
And completely out of sight
Completely out of sight in every way
How can I explain it?
When we live and concentrate
On being happy 100 percent
And mellow tone, however
Yes, I know sometime that you aren′t mellow
But you know, deep down inside I know you mellow people
Well, at least not as mellow as I hope you would be sometime
But you know how to do somethin′ about that too
'Cause you just too good to be anything but you
Now I′m still, I'm still willin′ to
To help for, for, let's say, help each other
And I don′t care what it take
Even if we have to sleep in a tent
As long as I know that we're close together
And that vibrations of your love and affection
And the warmth of you is there
Can't you see that this opportunity
Comes once in a lifetime?
Sometimes I wanna know
Are you livin′ in past time, past time things
Right before your eyes, you know?
Well, and sometimes it just seems impossible for you to see
You′re not blind, you know, you're just hardheaded, stubborn
But that′s all right
Those are the sweet things that makes you you
And I wouldn't take nobody else but you
You let my flame go out last night
You let my flame go out
You know, I, I don′t expect, like
For you to just say you can sleep James Brown
Or you can sleep your man
But, uh, since I'm your man
You can even sleep me, James Brown, you know
′Cause that's who we talkin' about
We′re not talkin′ about John Doe
Maybe Johnny Terror or somebody, or Bobby Byrd
We talkin' about me and you, or you and I
If you wanna be, you know, correct
But I think that sayin′ me and you makes it close
You know, I can feel you that way
That's all right, just take your time
Writer(s): Nat Jones Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
