Crime Song Wednesday: Good Man by Raphael Saadiq

Thanks to Anthony Neil Smith for this one. The lyrics of Good Man by Raphael Saadiq are vague but the video for it fleshes the story out to full fledged crime fiction with a great femme fatle character and Cutty from The Wire.

After the jump you can check out the lyrics…

Good man, I’m a good man, food’s on the table, working two jobs,
Waiting willing the neighbors check your name
I’m having fun, got no kids and I love the Lord, check your name
I’m a … never did time but maybe just once, check your name
And I puts it down, wanna see it twice, brother puts it down, check

How could you ever walk away, after all I’ve done for you
I feel like there’s a knife in my back, babe
You might as well pull it all the way through

Good man, I’m a good man, food’s on the table, working two jobs,
Waiting willing the neighbors check your name, good man
I’m having fun, got no kids and I love the Lord, check your name
I’m a … never did time but maybe just once, check your name
And I puts it down, wanna see it twice, brother puts it down, check

You watched them hand cuff me lady, and walk me to my room

I never been so humiliated, I don’t think that I deserve it for you
Good man, I’m a good man, food’s on the table, working two jobs,
Waiting willing the neighbors check your name, good man
I’m having fun, got no kids and I love the Lord, check your name
I’m a … never did time but maybe just once, check your name
And I puts it down, wanna see it twice, brother puts it down, check
I never been, I never been so much pain, never
My life is better, my love is pretty, so much better, now
Without you, I never had so … without you, whenever … inside
How could you… just …walk away
When the things go rough you quickly ran into .. somebody say, I’ve been there
There’s one thing I know so I’ma tell you that I’m a good man, back to you, a good man
Good man, good man, good man, good man.

Brian Lindenmuth

Brian is the non-fiction editor of Spinetingler magazine and one of the fiction editors of Snubnose Press. In addition to Spinetingler his work has appeared in Crimespree magazine and at BSC Review, Galleycat and the Mulholland Books website. He also heads the Spinetingler Award committee.

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