Eddie You Should Know Better Lyrics - Curtis Mayfield

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