My Rapp - James Brown

Sweet thing, you’re dead now

You’re dead, yeah

You’re out cold, but live on

Now, now at Christmas time, 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’re really out of sight

Out of sight, totally together

But you let me down now, you didn’t even defend yourself

You didn’t defend yourself

And you left me 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, 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

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 sufferin', tears, cold sweat

Why does my girl always have to be

The one to go south and go away from me?

And leave me stringing on a tree, dangling on a string

That’s alright, I’ma be there when you come back

But I’m gon' give you this little old rap so we can get this together

Since you gon', you know, smoke it in a pipe

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 alright 'cause you’re just together that way

Now, baby, can’t you be conscious of like every moment in the day and 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

And how can I explain it when we live and concentrate on being happy 100 percent

In mellow tone, however

Yes, I know sometimes that you aren’t mellow

But, you know, deep down inside I know you’re mellow people

Well, at least, not as mellow as I hope you would be sometime

But you know how to do something about that, too

'Cause you’re just too good to be anything but you

Now, I’m still, I’m still willing to help 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 are 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 a past time?

Pastime things right before your eyes, you know

Well, sometimes it just seems it’s impossible for you to see

You’re not blind, you know, you’re just hardheaded, stubborn, but that’s alright

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 don’t expect, like, you can sleep James Brown or you can sleep your

man

But since I’m your man, you can even sleep me, James Brown

That’s what we’re talking about, we’re not talking about John Doe

Maybe Johnny Terry or somebody, or Bobby Byrd

We’re talking about me and you, or you and I

You wanna be, you know, but saying me and you makes it close, you know

I can feel you that way

That’s alright, just take your time