It Doesn't Work That Way

Do you like you? Do you like the clothes you wear?.. how you fix your hair?

 Do you like the friends you keep?.. the thoughts you speak? 

Do you like the way you feel? Is your life ideal? Is your head fogged by memories your cant forget?  Is your life full of decision you cant help but to regret?

Do you paint on a smile and hope it lasts for a while? Are you trying to hide the feelings of being brushed aside? 

Are you waiting on a green light to show you you're doing alright? 

Love ain't love if it walks away; it doesn't work that way.

 

"Try"
 
   Put your make up on

Get your nails done
Curl your hair
Run the extra mile
Keep it slim
So they like you. Do they like you?

Get your sexy on
Don't be shy, girl
Take it off
This is what you want, to belong
So they like you. Do you like you?

You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing

You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try
You don't have to try

Oh

Get your shopping on,
At the mall,
Max your credit cards
You don't have to choose,
Buy it all
So they like you. Do they like you?

Wait a second,
Why should you care, what they think of you
When you're all alone, by yourself
Do you like you? Do you like you?

You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing

You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to bend until you break
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing

You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try

You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try
You don't have to try

No
Oh

You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing

You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try
You don't have to try

Take your make up off
Let your hair down
Take a breath
Look into the mirror, at yourself
Don't you like you?
Cause I like you

Yeah, Maybe

The moments in life where you finally hear what someone has said... those instances where you are literally stopped in your tracks because you realize you are affected by the words people have spoken to and about you... the times you cry tears of confusion because you don't know whose definition of yourself you believe... the bursts of anger you feel when the pain that has been caused reaches the deepest depths of your core... During those moments, you are forced to admit that you don't want to know yourself.

What if they are right? Maybe you are determined to be unhappy, despite any good that comes along in your life. Maybe you are unable to maintain friendships because you are unlikeable and maybe you do instill the feeling of fear of upsetting you in those who get close to you.  Maybe you are just that overweight 'salt & pepperfaced' insecure selfish bitch they've always told you that you are. 

But. Maybe you're not. Maybe you're just misunderstood. Maybe you expect a lot out of people because you are willing to give the same. Maybe you have such desire to connect with someone on a deeper level because you need to feel like you belong and have a purpose. Perhaps being abandoned, literally and figuratively, time and time again has left a feeling of emptiness and loneliness which has caused you to cling too tightly to others.