It's Too Bad (Record Plant, New York, NY, February 11, 1969)

It's Too Bad (Record Plant, New York, NY, February 11, 1969) - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

It's too bad

That my brother can't be here today

It's too bad

That my brother can't be here today

Well one time he came around to my house you know

And I was kind of like out of my mind

And I seen him a-crying away

I say hey baby hey yeah

Hear me cry

Hey baby baby baby

Hear me cry

Remember that room full of mirrors I was telling you about

I said brother

Don't tell me you come around here to hustle like the rest of people do

I say brother brother

Don't tell me you came around here hustling like the rest of those people do

And he said "No no brother Jim"

He said "I'm just coming here to look for life like you"

He said "Don't fear me brother baby"

I say that's what happen sometimes

When you lose yourself in nothing

And he looked at me you know he said these two blondes around the next day

I said "Lord please don't lose yourself

That what happen when you lose yourself on nothing"

He said "Baby you know me I'm your brother

Please don't take me for nothing"

It's too bad too bad

Lord my brother just can't be here with me today

It's too bad

My brother can't be here with me today

But he came around to my house and asked for me uh help me out

I said "Man go the hell on your hustling way yeah"

And I think they send him away to the war today

So I'll go way across the tracks way across the tracks

And man they treat me the same as you do too

Well I'll go way back over across the track

And they treat me the same as you do

Say man until you come back completely back

Go back where you came from too