Sweet thing,
you're dead now
You're dead
Yeah
You're out cold, but live on, now
Now at Christmastime,
an d the whole year round
Right on?
Right on
Look here, sweet thing,
let me explain myself, baby
When I say you're dead,
I- 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'm gonna try to write
This little old letter and,
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 fussing, no fighting, no nothing
You just up and split
with another cat
Of course, I found out later he was your friend,
but uh...
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 nothing
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 stringing on a tree,
dangling on a string
That's all right
I'm gonna be there when you come back
But I'm gonna 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 saying
I want you to know where I'm coming
from now
Like, I have a right, you know,
to like, come on with this old
Aggravated or, or, uh,
antagonizing rap because I feel a little down
But I think you're gonna 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 moods 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 healthy
100% in mellow tone?
However, yes,
I know sometime that you aren't mellow, but
You know, uh, 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 something
about that too
'Cause you just too good
to be anything but you
Now, I'm still, I'm still willing 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 are close together and that vibrations,
uh, from
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 why you
living on past time
Past time things right before your eyes,
you know?
Mm
Well, and sometimes it just seem it's
impossible for you to see
You're, 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
just to, 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're talking
about
We're not talking about John
Doe or maybe
Johnny Terry or somebody,
or Bobby Byrd
We're talking about me and you,
or you and
I if you want to be, you
know, correct
But I think just saying me and you makes it close,
you know?
I can feel you that way
That's all right
Just take your time
James Brown 
