| Sweet thing, you’re dead now
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| You’re dead, yeah
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| You’re out cold, but live on
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| Now, now at Christmas time, and the whole year round
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| Right on, right on
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| Look here, sweet thing, let me explain myself, baby
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| When I say «you're dead,» I mean you’re really out of sight
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| Out of sight, totally together
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| But you let me down now, you didn’t even defend yourself
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| You didn’t defend yourself
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| And you left me like, oh no, I can’t say this on record
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| But I’ma try to write this little old letter and let you dig my little old rap
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| It starts like this, listen to it
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| For what it’s worth, for what it could mean to you and I both, later on:
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| Dear sweet thing, fox, all the beautiful things, all the little names that I
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| give you
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| I sit here so aggravated and bewildered because you didn’t, you know,
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| you didn’t come home
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| You didn’t come straight back to me last night
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| No fussin', no fightin', no nothin', you just up and split with another cat
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| Of course, I found out later he was your friend
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| And this much, this morning, I was able, I was able to understand that
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| After a very hectic night, you can dig the night was long
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| Now, I made it clear as possible, as possibly I could say it
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| Baby, don’t go to strangers, come on home to me
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| Now, it’s true, it’s true, this is a man’s world
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| But it wouldn’t be nothin' without your kind
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| That I see now, after 24 hours of sufferin', tears, cold sweat
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| Why does my girl always have to be
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| The one to go south and go away from me?
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| And leave me stringing on a tree, dangling on a string
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| That’s alright, I’ma be there when you come back
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| But I’m gon' give you this little old rap so we can get this together
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| Since you gon', you know, smoke it in a pipe
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| But understand what I’m sayin', I want you to know where I’m comin' from
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| Now, like, I have a right, you know, to like come on with this old
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| Aggravated or antagonizing rap because I feel a little down
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| But I think you gon' make it alright 'cause you’re just together that way
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| Now, baby, can’t you be conscious of like every moment in the day and night
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| And let all of our moves be for each other? | 
| Together, you know
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| And completely out of sight, completely out of sight in every way
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| And how can I explain it when we live and concentrate on being happy 100 percent
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| In mellow tone, however
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| Yes, I know sometimes that you aren’t mellow
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| But, you know, deep down inside I know you’re mellow people
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| Well, at least, not as mellow as I hope you would be sometime
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| But you know how to do something about that, too
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| 'Cause you’re just too good to be anything but you
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| Now, I’m still, I’m still willing to help for, let’s say, help each other
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| And I don’t care what it take, even if we have to sleep in a tent
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| As long as I know that we are close together and that vibrations of your love
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| and affection
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| And the warmth of you is there
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| Can’t you see that this opportunity comes once in a lifetime?
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| Sometimes I wanna know, are you livin' in a past time?
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| Pastime things right before your eyes, you know
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| Well, sometimes it just seems it’s impossible for you to see
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| You’re not blind, you know, you’re just hardheaded, stubborn, but that’s alright
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| Those are the sweet things that makes you you, and I wouldn’t take nobody else
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| but you
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| You let my flame go out last night
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| You let my flame go out
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| You know, I don’t expect, like, you can sleep James Brown or you can sleep your
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| man
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| But since I’m your man, you can even sleep me, James Brown
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| That’s what we’re talking about, we’re not talking about John Doe
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| Maybe Johnny Terry or somebody, or Bobby Byrd
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| We’re talking about me and you, or you and I
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| You wanna be, you know, but saying me and you makes it close, you know
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| I can feel you that way
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| That’s alright, just take your time |