She's been holding on too long hoping I'm gonna change.
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Giving it up just a little bit more each time I come home, looking and acting strange.
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Putting her down for putting up with me.
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Be as you are, as you see, as I am, I am. Be as you are, as you see, as I am, I am.
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Do you think you might improve me, trying to take control?
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Watching every little thing I do just like a bleeding movie, just like a leading role?
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Mama, this ain't me and I don't believe that's you.
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Be as you are, as you see, as I am, I am. Be as you are, as you see, as I am, I am.
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First you make believe, I believe the things that you make believe
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and I'm bound to let you down.
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Then it's I who have been deceiving, purposely misleading,
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and all along you believed in me.
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So we circle around one another playing I guessing game, strangers at this masquerade.
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Pretending to know each other, we strain to catch a name
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and never see the mistakes we must have made.
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Be as you are, as you see, as I am, I am. Be as you are, as you see, as I am, I am.
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B. S. U. R.
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| James Taylor |