Don't Change Yourself, Just Change You

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Don't go changing
That's what I thought you said
Change yourself
That's what you said instead

You don't like anything about me
And want me to be somebody I'm not
Why don't you just let me be?
You've taken everything I've got

I thought you loved me for me
But I must be wrong
You want me to be someone else completely
Somebody who's passive and not strong

Am I not enough for you?
Do you not like my personality?
I listen to you because that's all I can do
But I know this isn't the best reality

How can you love someone?
But hate everything about them?
Why do you love me?
If you don't even like me?

When I ask you about what to do
You say, "Don't change yourself,
Just change you.
Or else we're through."

But if I change me,
Then I'm changing myself
And I won't be happy
To become someone else.
 

 

   

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