Mary J. Blige — Girl From Yesterday

[Verse 1] Here I am Looking through that same window again Got me hurting to see you Attack me, jealousy Always wondering if I'm being true Why can't I be pretty for you? [Chorus] You want too much of me (Of me) Why can't I shine? (Why can't I shine?) How could you do me that way? (How could you do me?) The girl from yesterday Today, I'm gone away, away, away, away, away Gone away, you push me away Ooh-ooh, yesterday Ooh-ooh, yesterday [Verse 2] If somebody loved me The way that I have loved you I would be secure But you have friends that think they know how This relationship should go Forces from the outside Destroying us Why can't I be a woman? Why can't you trust? [Chorus] You want too much of me Why can't I shine? (Why can't I be me?) How could you do me that way? (I wouldn't change you for the world) The girl from yesterday Today, I'm gone away, away, away, away, away You're pushing me away So far away, the girl from yesterday Ooh-ooh, yesterday Ooh-ooh, yesterday Yesterday, yesterday [Outro] How could you treat me this way? The girl from yesterday You did wipe my tears away, oh, oh How could you do it? You were my lover You were my friend Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh And you're pushing me Pushing me away, boy And I don't understand I loved you, trust you I need you, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh