CHORUS i just wanna live... but how do you live when it's hard to forgive?/ hard to forgive but I gotta let go/ so I let it go cuz it's good for my soul/ soul is eternal so I'm on right road/ and on the right road I'll get where I need to be/ and where I need to be is the place where you love/ and the place where you love is the place you forgive/ and one you forgive you will learn how to live
how can a daddy walk away from his daughter/ fending for myself trying to keep it all in order/ thank God I was like one of the boys..and so I learned them/ still couldn't spare me from the hurtin'/ now I got this curtain/ keeping everyone away everybody knows DY/ but Diana stays.. in my own world/ I remember the girl who adored you/ all through my critical years I waited for you/ fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth... by time I got to high school out of tired of the wait/ tried to understand so I could stop being mad crazy jealous of the other little girls who had a dad... now I'm dealing with these issues/ trying not to show em/ only trust a dude just as far as I can throw him.. and even if he good I could barely get to know him because I'm worried 'bout him leaving in the middle of us growin'/ and so I stay askin' "where you goin'? where you been?"/ like everybody's really out to hurt me in the end/ I'm staying to myself I can hardly keep a friend/ cuz I didn't have the one who should've loved me til the end/ and now I'm full grown and you tell me I got a brother/ who spent his whole life with a father and a mother/ so now I'm sitting here trying to let go and live cuz I really want to love you but it's hard to forgive and live..
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be strong got to move on/ used to doubt self its me i gotta prove wrong/ but you don't know just how much it'll hurt you/ til you sittin' in the living room crying over commercials/ and even though I had a decent home life/ I can see how it affects me in my grown life/ no daddy daughter dances meant scared to take chances/ in and out of love, in and out of romances/ few examples of doing the right thing.. of how its supposed to go and the way it supposed to be/ but I can't blame you wouldn't even change you/ I am who I am in the end I came through/ I just missed you and I wish you were there/ so I wouldn't be battling these little girl fears/ and I'm not the only one I can see it in my peers/ fully grown woman crying little girl tears... and as a write lines / I feel myself sitting here trying to fight mine/ people never talk about it til the right time/ some hold it in for a whole lifetime/ and I'm lucky cuz at least I get to write rhymes/ I get to put it on this paper and recite mine/ I mean I will probably shout if I couldn't let it out/ I don't think that I'd be dealing in my right mind..