The Preacher / More Than I Can Stand Songtext
von Bobby Womack

Lemme hear everybody in the house tonight
If you still feel like you wanna have a good time
All you gotta say is "Yeah" (Yeah!)
Yeah (Yeah!)
I don′t know why but I still think you could say it just a little bit louder
I wanna hear you say "Yeah" (Yeah!), hmm

I don't know why, I feel like I wanna preach tonight
I wonder would y′all mind
If I preach to you for about five minutes?
But I got to know that I got some warriors in the house tonight
So lemme hear you say "Yeah", owww!


About five years ago
I fell in love
But you know what? I never believed, I never believed in working a real hard job
One day my old lady walked up and told me, she said "Bobby -"
She said "Your lovin' is good"
"But my money is gettin' sorta′ thin", lemme hear you say "Yeah"
She said "I don′t mean to hurt your feelings boy"
"But you better get on out and find yourself a job"
(My nose was sorta opened wide at that time)
So earlier that next mornin'
I went on out lookin′ tryna find a job
And I'm mighty glad the day that I can tell you that I found it
I put in 24 hours a day
And then a little overtime
But here′s a sad part of the story
(You know somethin' ′bout that, don't you?)
Listen to me, now
What brought me home
It brought me home sorta early one night
I gotta funny, I gotta funny feelin'
That somethin′ was going on in my house that wasn′t right
I'll tell you why I say that
The car parked in my driveway
(You know about that, don′t you?)
The car parked in my driveway turned out to be my best friend's
And what made it so bad, this is what it made it so bad
I know they heard me
(It be like this sometimes)
I know they heard me!
Ooh, I know they heard me knockin′ but they still wouldn't let me in
My mind told me to leave, but my heart told me to stay
Ooh, I tried to walk away
But everytime I take a step, seem like something kept pulling me back
So I eased up to the door, and I started to listen
(Tryna find out what I could hear)
But y′all know what? I couldn't hear a damn thing
But I kept on listening, yeah
And just as I started to walk away, seems like to me I recognized my best friend's voice, as he went something like this
It must′ve been getting good to him cause he was saying, uh, "Hmm, hmm, ooh, ooh, owww!"
But that didn′t make it so bad
Until I recognized my old lady's voice, as she kept telling, she said, "Ooh, baby"
And I was standing listenin′, and she said, "Ooh, baby"
And he sorta stuttered, he kept saying like "O-o-o-o, what honey?"
She kept telling this, she said "Keep on doin'-doin′-doin' what you doin′, boy"

Now, lemme hear you say, "Yeah" (Yeah!)
Make me known you're still with me, let me hear you say "Yeah" (Yeah!)

So I started to call my baby
I said, "Baby"
I said "I'm glad to walk away if you do me one thing"
Would you do me one thing? Oh

Girl don′t pull the rug from under my feet, ooh
Don′t leave, don't leave me so, I′m talking in my sleep (listen to me)
This could be the start of a nightmare
Waking up and not finding you there
It would be more than I could stand
Oh, baby Oh, baby

Girl, don't leave me so, I′m pacing the floor (don't you do it, baby)
Cause that′s, that's what I'll do if you close the door
Leavin′ me would ruin all of my plans
It would be like tying the both of my hands
And that′s more than I could ever stand
Oh baby, oh tell me


Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go?
I promise not to never, never hurt you no more
Oh, please don't leave me, please don′t go
By causin' my heart to ache, causin′ it to break

I believe that we still got a lot of love to give, baby
So turn around, baby
Turn around, there's still a lot of life we can live
Maybe I′ve been too hung up on myself
But don't change me by putting my heart on a shelf
Cause that's more, baby, than I could ever stand
Oh, tell me, oh, tell me
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go?
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go?

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
I feel a groove comin′ on strong
I can get everything that you wanted
But what did you do for me, girl?
You broke my heart, tore it apart
You broke my heart, tore it apart

I wanna ask y′all a question before I leave
Speak now or forever hold your peace, right?
He said, "The police said we got to go, we're stayin′ after two
Well, tell the police to come on in

I can't stop, aaah!
I can′t stop
I'm on groove here
If it takes all night long
I′m gon' move here
If it takes all night long
'Cause I got the feelin′
Got the feelin′

I wonder if you've ever asked anybody this question?
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go?
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go? (Lemme hear you say)
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go?
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go? (Bring it on now)
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go?
Why you wanna leave me? Why you wanna go?

"Ladies and gentlemen, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack!"