all you used to do was put me down but i found a way to pick myself up off the ground and i all you used to do was criticize me but now i found the good and i emphasize it see you would always get so sensitive and try to turn your transgressions into my guiltiness but now i m certain of the way i live and what i m responsible for in this twisted game and it s such a shame that you try to make pain another word for my name whether giving or receiving it s one and the same just one more link in your long ass chain but it s time to break this frame and my strengthful will time to jump off this negative cycle we ve built gave my heart but my self respect you won t steal now it s time to let you go if you can t hear or feel me so so i asked my momma for her two cents and then i asked my little sister and i asked my friend then i asked my poppa once and i asked him again came to the consensus from all them opinions that life is too short to be unhappy and since i know what i m worth there ll be no settling for dirt knowing what i deserve is gold if i want diamonds then i can t settle for coal and maybe i was just too strong to let go maybe i was just too weak to let it show maybe i was just too stubborn to say no but whatever the case i can t take it no more sometimes i think maybe we ll patch it all up like a favorite pair of jeans that you won t give up on and i hope maybe one of these arguments will make up and start again like when we had started this up back when everything was fresh and every moment a blessing i d laugh at all of your jokes you d listen to my suggestions one mind one soul one common destination now we can t help but fight over the direction