A Little Too Late (Toby Keith song)

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.

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. He then starts to build a brick wall with the intent of sealing his girlfriend inside and leaving her for dead; indeed, the woman's fear and apprehension grows as the man completes his work. Keith places the last brick as the song ends, he continues to mock his girlfriend after the wall is completed. However, as Keith turns to leave he realizes what he had failed to notice before, that he was standing on the wrong side of the wall and accidentally bricked himself inside. Suddenly realizing 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.

This song debuted at number 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 number 30 the next week. The song finally peaked at number 2 in early August, where it held for two weeks, after remaining at number 4 for four weeks.

• Lyrics at CMT.com
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics