Love me or leave me but please don't deceive me
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And say you love me how I am
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You love the way I fit some ideal
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Not the real woman you've yet to understand
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See love ain't all heaven, and I am no angel
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But I do the best I can
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You always wanted something more from my body
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And said you needed something more from my loving
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But all you got was me and that's all that I can be
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I'm sorry if it let you down
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Now it's no nice excuse but all the magic was used
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Up on trying to uphold
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Some kind of tame, flattering persona
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That soon enough was getting real old
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It takes more than pressure to change rock to diamond
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Now all you have is sand,
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Slipping through your fingers
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You always wanted something more from my body
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And said you needed something more from my loving
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But all you got was me and that's all that I can be
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I'm sorry if it let you down
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But I'm not gonna sit around
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And waste my precious divine energy
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Trying to explain and being ashamed
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Of things you think are wrong with me
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I'm not gonna sit around
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And waste my precious divine energy
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Trying to explain and being ashamed
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Of what you think is wrong with me
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Set you up, you say I set you up
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Like I was different than what I am offering you now
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Let you down, you say I let you down
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And drug your heart around
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Did you forget about
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All of the love and the acceptance that you promised me too?
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You always wanted something more from my body
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And said you needed something more from my loving
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But all you got was me and that's all that I can be
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I'm sorry if it let you down
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You always wanted something more from my body
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And said you needed something more from my loving
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But all you got was me and that's all that I can be
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I'm sorry if it let you down
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But I'm not gonna sit around
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And waste my precious divine energy
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Trying to explain and being ashamed
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Of things you think are wrong with me
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Me, I'm not gonna sit around
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And waste my precious divine energy
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Trying to explain and being ashamed
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Of what you think is wrong with me it let you down
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Precious
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| Esperanza Spalding |
