I've Learned To Love Myself

There’s no way my mother can still love me

The way my father, my father said she did

More like a brother to the others, but to my sister

I am nothing but another statistic

When you’re birthed by seven women over 13 days

Superstitious happy endings

Seem farther away than you may want to believe

Although our brother is sleeping with our greatest enemy

We still love him like we did when we were kids

But if another of my brothers meets that reaper early

There will be nothing that can stop revolution

Now my mouth keeps running, but it’s running in place

And the mask I used to wear is now becoming my face

There’s no way I will be seen

I’ve learned to love myself

I’ve learned to love myself abandonment

(I believe fear cannot exist within the plan)

And if I feel myself I’ve learned to do it with the touch of death

I’ve learned to love myself

I’ve learned to love myself abandonment

(I believe fear cannot exist within the plan)

So when you feel yourself

You should be careful with the touch of death

And now my lover is screaming

Jason, can you love me

The way you never even acted like you did?

The problem I’m seeing with being so damn empty

Is the irony when you’re completely full of shit

When your mouth keeps running to a dangerous place

Can you really call it lost if you don’t want to be saved?

When it rains, it’s pouring on me

I’ve learned to love myself

I’ve learned to love myself abandonment

(I believe fear cannot exist within the plan)

And if I feel myself I’ve learned to do it with the touch of death

I’ve learned to love myself

I’ve learned to love myself abandonment

(I believe fear cannot exist within the plan)

So when you feel yourself

You should be careful with the touch of death

I’ve learned to love myself

I’ve learned to love myself abandonment

(I believe fear cannot exist within the plan)

And once you see it all

It’s all you see and I’m okay with that