James Brown - Doing The Best I Can

James Brown - Doing The Best I Can Lyric

Ay
Doing the best I can
Doing the best I can
I'm only a man
Darling

My life has been empty
Since you went away
I'm feeling so very, very lonely
I just trip from day to day

I'm doing the best I can
Trying to get over
Doing the best I can, oh

I'm brokenhearted
It's my fault
Treated you wrong
So many times
I just wanna talk

I'm just a man
Doing the best I can
Yeah
Now darling
Doing the best I can
Each and every day
So many times

I know you gone away
I said I know you gone away
I miss you each and every day
Every, every, every, every day, I just

I get lonely
Night after night
Wonder if I'm doing
What's wrong or if I'm doing what's right

But I'm only a man, baby
Baby I'm only a man
I'm for real
And I'm doing the best that I can (I'm for real)
(I'm for real)
Now baby (I'm for real)
Now baby (I'm for real)
Yeah (I'm for real) hey, hey

I sit down and I wonder (I'm for real)
What and who and where (I'm for real)
What if I've been wrong? (I'm for real)
I wonder who'd care (I'm for real)
Tell me now (I'm for real)
Is it right for me to suffer? (I'm for real)

Yeah I stand (I'm for real)
With my head hangin' low (I'm for real)
Wondering which way to turn (I'm for real)
I don't know just where to go (I'm for real)
How long can I keep it up? (I'm for real)
Tell me, tell me (I'm for real)
How long, how long? (I'm for real)
I need it (I'm for real)

My darling, I'm for real (I'm for real)
(I'm for real)
(I'm for real)
(I'm for real)
(I'm for real)

I'm for real, baby (I'm for real)
But I want you to know (I'm for real)
I miss you baby
Darling I miss you so (I'm for real)
I miss you, darling (I'm for real)
(I'm for real)
(I'm for real)
I miss you, darling

How long can I keep it up? (I'm for real)
Night after night (I'm for real)
Don't know whether it's wrong or right (I'm for real)
But here I stand baby (I'm for real)
With my head hangin' so low (I'm for real)

Here I stand, baby
Baby do you know?
Do you know?
I remember when you were here with me
I remember when you were here
I remember when you were here with me
I remember me and Mrs. Jones

I remember me and Mrs. Jones
How we had a thing goin' on
Oh we were carryin' on
We were carryin' on
I know deep down inside I was wrong

I want you to help me
Whoo
Help me, help me
Help me darling, show me the way
Come to you one more time
Show me the way

I-I-I-I wanna know a way
I'm standing here with my head hanging low
Oh I'm standing here
I said I'm, I'm standing here
I'm standing here, me and Mrs. Jones

I'm standing here
I know we were wrong, I just want some help
Woo, hoo!
Whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo

Oh, baby
Now can you make another friend?
Can you, can you make another?
Can you make another?
Oh, darling
Do you know what it means to have someone need you?
I want you

Oh you cheated on me, you should not have left me here
Should not have left me here
Whoo whoo
Makes me wanna cry

I'm so lonely, but baby I'm just a man
Doing the best I can
I, I, I'm just a man
I'm just a man
I'm just a man