When It Don't Make Sense

I was talking to a friend the other day, mhmm, mmm And he went on to tell me about the changes He'd been going through with his woman, yeah And somehow I knew, I knew Somehow I knew this wasn't good, when one will do For my friend and his woman, ha Oh, they've been going through a lot of changing Tell me, what do you do? This is what he asked me When you don't make sense, do you turn and walk away? Ha Oh, when you don't make sense Do you try to pick up the pieces when it don't make sense? Or should you leave them, leave them right where they are When it don't make sense, ha Oh, babe, right then I knew, ha That I was gonna have to reach out and check some love, ha 'Cause he had fallen, ha Oh, he had fallen a little too low Can I ask you a question? Have you ever tried to understand somebody, ha That just couldn't be understood, ha-ha I looked him dead in the eye He said, man, I tried for a long time (tried for a long time), long time And it just didn't do, no good, didn't do no good But still you dig down and love them When it don't make sense Have you ever gave everything you had When it don't make sense Oh, when it don't make sense, baby, baby, ha Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Oh, Lord, when y'all make sense Listen girl, I done tried to listen, listen to everything she said Don't make sense, y'all, ha Two and two keep coming out to five, ha It don't work like that, baby Y'all should have seen me standing there with tears in his eyes Oh, after ten, ten long years, Lord, it don't make sense And he said, here's what I done I decided to step out of the situation and get me together He said, "Wendell, it hurt me to walk away from my baby" See, when you love somebody That it hurts you so deep on that inside And no matter what they do, yeah, yeah All of these damn changes When you don't make sense, don't make sense, ha Yeah, ha, I don't have back too long Way too long (ooh, ooh, ooh) When it don't make sense, ha Y'all, it's about to stress me out, ooh, ooh, ooh When it don't make sense Don't make sense, baby, baby, have I done told I have blood pressure Oh, baby, oh, baby When it don't make sense, at all And we ain't got to go through all these different shades Said when you love somebody Now I wrote this song To send out a message To everybody If you love the person, you're with Start making sense about it, baby Say I don't care what color you are You could be black, white, red or green Male or female Just trying to love somebody You ought to want to stop doing that When you don't make no sense, don't make no sense, ha Oh, but she turned, yo, she turned And walked away with an attitude When you don't make no sense, ha, don't make no sense She never want to sit down and talk about She'd rather get up and walk away When you don't make sense Y'all don't hear me He said, "Now I done, done the best I can" Trying to be a good husband, ha And be a good man, ha Trying to be a good man I told her I'm tired, so tired, ha Of the changes we've been going through And maybe from the home The rest is all up to you, yeah It don't make sense, baby, baby Don't make sense, baby, baby When it don't make sense, sometimes I get fooled, baby Well, get off the mic now, ha 'Cause I'm getting a little emotional, ha And I started to get all teary-eyed up in here When it don't make sense, ha And the tears began to flow down my face, ha Oh, as the girl walked away, yeah I told her don't When it don't make sense, ha Rolled eyes and looked at me with an attitude Oh, baby, don't, oh, baby, ha, oh, baby