Love Yourself

Album: Strength Of A Woman (2017)
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  • It's been a long way, but I made it here with love
    I made it here with love, love
    Said I've been and up and down and I've been through it all
    Took a while to know my heart
    Oh, yes, it did, yeah
    Before love like this, you go
    Through the fire and valley lows
    But if you just hold on
    Please hold on 'cause love is strong, it'll save yah
    Oh, please hold on, it'll save yah, save yah

    Truth can be the sweetest pain
    It can mess up everything
    It's the only way you know
    I'm payin' for it, I'm changin' for it
    Oh, oh, and it hurts
    But I'll make it work
    'Cause I'm no beginner
    I'm a winner, paid dues, I know my purpose

    Thought they'd put my life on hold
    But I knew somethin' they didn't know
    I know myself too much to ever fold
    Dark clouds are movin' past you

    Oh, you gotta love yourself
    If you really wanna be with someone else
    You gotta feed yourself
    Before you feed somebody else
    You gotta stay open, and don't be foolish
    'Cause everybody don't mean you well
    You gotta love yourself
    Before you love somebody else

    Yeah, gotta love yourself
    Uh, you know what I'm sayin'?

    I decided not to use my color as a handicap
    He a designer, artist, producer, and he rap
    Never found virtue from patience
    In a dark room just pacin'
    Precious time is just wastin'
    You do not know what we facin'
    I cannot be complacent
    In my job, be courageous
    Another kid just got shot
    They can't find the assailant
    Made it out of the basement
    Made it out of the underground
    From a time where you outta town
    They might gun you down, blaow
    There goes another round, blaow
    There goes another round
    Came from the Chi and wow, look what the fuck they found
    A young legend, comin' to shut the summer down
    You need to talk to me like you don't when your mother 'round

    Oh, you gotta love yourself, oh yeah
    If you really wanna be with someone else
    You gotta feed yourself
    Before you feed somebody else
    You gotta stay open, and don't be foolish
    'Cause everybody don't mean you well
    You gotta love yourself (you gotta love yourself)
    Before you love somebody else

    I don't feel no one's time
    Can't get restless in the soul
    Hold your heart, the world is cold
    Keep singin', don't you stop prayin', woman
    Yeah, it will come to pass
    Don't worry 'bout nothin'
    God knows that you're worth it
    You deserve it, can't nothin' else hurt you

    Thought they'd put my life on hold
    But I knew somethin' they didn't know
    I know myself too much to ever fold
    Dark clouds are movin' past you

    Oh, you gotta love yourself, oh yeah
    If you really wanna be with someone else
    You gotta feed yourself
    Before you feed somebody else
    You gotta stay open, and don't be foolish
    'Cause everybody don't mean you well
    You gotta love yourself (you gotta love yourself)
    Before you love somebody else (somebody else) Writer/s: Charles Alexander, Darhyl Camper Jr., David Debrandon Brown, Kanye Omari West, Mary J Blige
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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