I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - Lyrics - Sara Gazarek

Sara Gazarek is an American jazz musician and singer. Gazarek was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to attend the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. She won the Downbeat Student Music Award for Best Collegiate Vocalist in 2003. Gazarek released her first album, Yours, in 2005. The album was a critical and commercial success with a top 10 ranking in the Billboard Traditional Jazz Charts as well as being the top album download in iTunes for Jazz in Germany and France. In a poll by the JazzTimes, readers voted Gazarek as the 3rd Best New Jazz Artist. She released her second album, Return To You in 2007 and is currently living in Los Angeles. Don Heckman of the LA Times said Gazarek is "the next important jazz singer."

The poets say that all who love are blind. But I'm in love and I know what time it is. The good book says go seek and ye shall find. Well I have sought and my what a climb it is. My life( or love?) is just like the weather, it changes with the hour when he's near I'm fair and warmer and when he's gone, i'm cloudy with showers. An emotion like the ocean, it's either sink or swim. When a women loves a man like I love him. Never treats me, sweet and gentle, the way he should. I've got it bad, and that ain't good. My poor heart is, sentimental. Not made of wood. I've, I've got it bad and that ain't good. But when the fish are jumping, and Friday rolls around, My man and me, we ____ some, and pray some, and ____ some. But he don't love me, like I love him. Lord, no no no nobody could. I've, I've got it bad and that ain't good. But when the weekend's over, and Monday rolls around. I end up, just like I started out, i'm crying my heart out. He don't love me, like I love him. Nobody could. Like the lonely weeping willow, lost in the wood. the things i tell my pillow, no one ever should. I've got it bad and that ain't good.