A Little Too Late (Toby Keith song)
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| Single by Toby Keith | ||||
| from the album White Trash with Money | ||||
| Released | April 4, 2006 | |||
| Format | CD Single | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:06 (album version) | |||
| Label | Show Dog Nashville | |||
| Writer(s) | Toby Keith Scotty Emerick Dean Dillon |
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| Producer | Toby Keith Lari White |
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"A Little Too Late" is a single by American country music singer Toby Keith that reached the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was the second single released from his CD, White Trash with Money. Keith wrote the song with his frequent collaborator, Scotty Emerick, and Dean Dillon.
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[edit] Content
The song is a moderate up-tempo mostly accompanied by electric guitars. The song's lyrics show a male addressing a former female lover, telling her that the couple is through.
[edit] Music video
A video for "A Little Too Late," directed by Michael Salomon, premiered on May 11, 2006. It has aired on CMT and Great American Country.
At the beginning of the video, a middle-aged man (Keith) appears at the doorway of a basement stairwell with a shovel, announces that he's home and begins playing a vinyl record of the song. He then approaches his ex-girlfriend (Krista Allen), who has been tied to a chair in the basement. After mocking her, he begins mixing cement in a trough and removes a tarp over a pallet of bricks. The man's intent is to seal his girlfriend inside and leave her for dead; indeed, the woman's fear and apprehension grows as the man completes his work. However, Keith fails to notice he is actually bricking himself inside; this does not become evident until the end of the song. Keith, who continues to mock his girlfriend after he places the last brick, suddenly realizes his predicament. At the end, the young woman frees herself and walks out of the basement; Keith, meanwhile, tries to apologize to her and meekly calls for help.
[edit] Chart performance
This song debuted at #45 on the Hot Country Songs chart on the chart dated April 29, 2006. Many radio stations added this song in its first official week of airplay, boosting the song to #30 the next week. The song finally peaked at #2 in early August, where it held for two weeks, after remaining at #4 for four weeks.
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 53 |
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