Take Me As I Am

Album: The Breakthrough (2005)
Charted: 58
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  • She's been down and out
    She's been wrote about
    She's been talked about constantly
    She's been up and down
    She's been pushed around
    But they held her down, N-Y-C
    She has no regrets
    She accepts the past
    All these things they helped make to make she
    She's been lost and found
    And she's still around
    There's a reason for everything, yeah

    You know I've been holdin' on
    Try to make me weak
    But I still stay strong (yeah)
    Put my life all up in these songs
    Just so you can feel me
    So you can get the real me

    So take me as I am (take me as I am)
    Or have nothing at all (nothing at all)
    Just take me as I am
    Or have nothing at all (at all)

    Yes, she's older now
    Yes, she's wiser now
    Can't disguise her now
    She don't need
    No one tellin' her
    What to do and say
    No one tellin' her
    Who to be
    She's on solid ground
    She's been lost and found
    Now she answers to G-O-D
    And she's confident
    This is not the end
    Ask me how I know
    'Cause she is me

    You know I've been holdin' on (I've been holdin' on)
    Tried to make me weak
    But I still stay strong (stay strong)
    Put my life all up in these songs
    Just so you can feel me
    So you can get the real me

    So take me as I am
    Or have nothing at all (nothing at all, at all)
    Just take me as I am (as I am)
    Or have nothing at all (or nothing, baby)

    This is me, this is me

    So it's all or nothing at all
    All or nothing at all
    Don't you know I can only be me
    I can only be me (yeah)
    I can only be me

    So it's all or nothing at all (ooh)
    All or nothing at all
    Don't you know I can only be me
    (I can only be me, yeah)

    So take me as I am (take me)
    Or have nothing at all
    (I can only be, yeah)
    Just take me as I am
    (I can only be, yeah, so take me)
    Or have nothing at all (at all)
    (Take me as I am or have nothing at all)

    Take me as I am (take me)
    Take me as I am
    Said it's all or nothing at all
    Said it's all or nothing at all
    Just take me as I am (oh, yeah)
    Or have nothing at all
    (Or nothing, baby, this is me, this is me)
    Just take me as I am (take me as I am)
    Or have nothing, nothing at all (take me as I am)
    Just take me as I am (take me as I am)
    Or have nothing, nothing at all (take me as I am) Writer/s: Candice Clotiel Nelson, Ezekiel L. Lewis, Jordan Matthew Suecof, Keri Lynn Hilson, Lonnie Liston Smith, Thabiso Nkhereanye
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Fine Brown Sugar from Kansas City, Mothis song is the best from mary J. blige
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