When I Can't Do Better lyrics - Mary J Blige

(from "The Color Purple" soundtrack)

Don't hold your love over my head

Please don't use it against me

Don't be that way tonight

Don't be that way tonight

Don't touch me with self-righteous hands

Promise you won't judge me

Don't walk away tonight

Embrace me

Save me from myself

Don't you hate me

When I can't do better

Feel me

Heal me if you dare

It would kill me

To lose you forever, mm

When it gets dark and it just don't come easy

'Cause it's too hard and we're too far gone

Stay with me now, oh

Pray for me now

When I mean good

But the strength just ain't there to do good

Tell me we good

Talk to me now, when I can't do better

If I give you power to carry me

Don't you use that power just to bury me

It's been a long night

Fuck it, it's been a long life, mm

But the truth is, what I do with it is my biz 'til I'm through with it

And it's my bed so I lay in it 'cause I'm cool with it

So embrace me

Save me from myself

Don't you hate me

When I can't do better

Feel me

Heal me if you dare

It would kill me

To lose you forever, mm

And I need you to know

When it gets dark and it just don't come easy

'Cause it's too hard and we're too far gone

Stay with me now, oh-oh (With me now)

Pray for me now

When I mean good

But the strength just ain't there to be good

Tell me, we good?

Talk to me now, when I can't do better

When I can't do better

Ooh, baby, love me through it

We can do it, we can get through it

Oh, hey, hey, yeah

So embrace me, baby

Hold me, baby

When I can't do better

Ooh

Ooh-ooh