[ti:Take Me As I Am]
[ar:Mary j blige]
[al:The Breakthrough]

[offset:500]
(verse 1:)
[00:24.98]she's been down and out
[00:26.78]she's been wrote about
[00:28.32]she's been talked about, constantly
[00:30.94]she's been up and down
[00:32.57]she's been pushed around
[00:34.11]but they held her down, nyc
[00:37.06]she has no regrets
[00:38.39]she accepts the past
[00:39.94]all these things they
[00:41.47]helped make to make she
[00:42.93]she's been lost and found
[00:44.28]and she's still around
[00:45.74]there's a reason for everything
[00:48.82]you know i've been holdin on.
[00:52.00]try to make me weak,
[00:53.30]but i still stay strong.
[00:55.36]put my life all up in these songs
[00:57.73]jus so you can feel me.
(chorus:)
[00:59.87]so take me as i am,
[01:05.58]or have nothing at all.
[01:11.28]just take me as i am,
[01:17.44]or have nothing at all.
(verse 2:)
[01:22.98]now she's older now
[01:24.91]yes, she's wiser now
[01:26.36]can't disguise her now
[01:28.02]she don't need
[01:29.20]no one tellin her
[01:30.71]what to do and say
[01:32.27]no one tellin her
[01:33.70]who to be
[01:35.52]she's on solid ground
[01:36.61]she's been lost and found
[01:37.93]now, she answers to g-o-d
[01:40.90]and she's confident
[01:42.38]this is not the end
[01:43.84]ask me how i know
[01:45.43]cause she is me.
[01:47.04]you know i've been holdin on.
[01:50.14]try to make me weak,
[01:51.46]but i still stay strong.
[01:53.34]put my life all up in these songs
[01:55.86]jus so you can feel me.
(chorus:)
[01:58.34]so take me as i am,
[02:03.73]or have nothing at all.
[02:09.38]just take me as i am,
[02:15.32]or have nothing at all.
(bridge: 2x)
[02:33.10][02:22.07]so it's all or nothing at all,
[02:35.70][02:23.99]all or nothing at all
[02:37.82][02:26.19]don't you know i can only be me.
[02:40.83][02:28.87](i can only be me, yeah)
(chorus:)
[02:44.71]so take me as i am,
[02:50.44]or have nothing at all.
[02:56.37]just take me as i am,
[03:02.14]or have nothing at all.
[03:08.33]take me as i am.
[03:11.72]take me as i am.
[03:14.52]said it's all or nothing at all
[03:17.03]said it's all or nothing at all
[03:19.84]just take me as i am,
[03:24.95]or have nothing at all. (this is me)
[03:31.10]just take me as i am, (take me as i am)
[03:36.80]or have nothing at all.
[03:42.29]just take me as i am, (take me as i am)
[03:49.12]or have nothing, nothing at all.
[03:54.91]take me as i am.