Love Yourself - K Rino, Ashlei

Live, learn and move ahead because we’ve all been burned

There’s only so much you can give and not receive in return

Don’t let it stress you out, view it as a bump in the road

Because it’ll have you looking around the house looking for something to load

I know the whole situation girl, I know what he done

Ran game, lied and left you one deep with a son

You gave him everything and got nothing and that’s a shame

Now looking at your own child’s face brings back pain

Because when you see him, you see the man that did you so wrong

You get hard, harder to feel like you can raise him alone

And I know you can, hell you’ve been doing it this long

But packing all the weight for years makes it hard to be strong

You better take a little time out to gather yourself

When no laughter is felt just all tears that’s bad for your health

Don’t get caught up in emotion, learn to hover above

You stop loving yourself, you won’t be there for others to love

If you don’t love you

You can’t love no one else

How can you love someone

If you don’t love yourself?

This fellow pumped up your head with the words that he said

Not even 24 hours later he had you in bed

Said it was you and him forever and that he was your man

To infatuated to understand his ultimate plan

Now you done broke ties with family and got with him fast

He educated you on street hustles to bring in cash

You was sceptical at first but he sold you a dream

He hit you with the «if you loved me, you would do it» routine

Now you out there on the streets and stripping up in the club

Selling your body and drugs and this supposed to be love?

You looked for it up in the wrong place and went with the flow

Now you stay high because your self esteem is low

And every day you seem to fall off just a little bit more

Your appearance ain’t even the same as it was before

You gave your heart to a man who didn’t have one of his own

And when he found somebody new to use he left you alone

Now you grew up in a household that wasn’t too stable

Used to dream about leaving but you just wasn’t able

A dysfunctional family, momma was rarely around

With an abusive father peace of mind could rarely be found

It’s real had being raised up in a house full of fools

Somehow you never let that hold you back from going to school

Momma got a drug problem but she’s in denial

And your own father molested you since you was a child

You done lost your innocence at a real young age

Lost faith in all men and feeling pent up rage

Depressed and suicidal, feeling heartless and cold

Blaming yourself for something that you couldn’t control

But don’t ever feel like there’s nothing that you could do

You can have a brand new life but it starts with you

You could still make a good man a wonderful wife

Don’t let life take you over just take over your life