Curtis Mayfield Eddie You Should Know Better Lyrics

Eddie You Should Know Better Lyrics

Eddie, you should know better

Brother, you know you're wrong

Think of the tears and fears

You bring to your folks back home

They'd say, where did he go wrong, my Lord?



We planned and worked hard from the very start

Tried to make him better than all the rest

But the brother proved to be so much less



Eddie is everybody's friend

But sometimes you wonder now and then

The only time he'll choose you



When there's something to lose through

His personal loss

And the friend pays the cost all the time



Must be something that's freezin' his mind

That has made him, through greed so very blind

And I don't think he's gonna make it this time