Esperanza Spalding - Precious (Album Version)

[00:00.01] La, la, la, la-la-la, la, la [00:06.05] La, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-e, la, la [00:15.08] [00:29.90] Love me or leave me, but please don't deceive me, and say you love me how I am [00:36.48] You love the way I fit some ideal, not the real woman you've yet to understand [00:43.26] See love ain't all heaven, and I am no angel, but I do the best I can [00:50.78] You always wanted something more from my body [00:54.14] And said you needed something more from my loving [00:57.68] But all you got was me and that's all that I can be [01:01.42] I'm sorry if it let you down [01:05.55] La, la, la, la-la-la, la, la [01:10.86] La, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-e, la, la [01:19.11] Now it's no nice excuse but all the magic was used up on trying to uphold [01:26.05] Some kind of tame flattering persona that soon enough was getting real old [01:32.85] It takes more than pressure to change rock to diamond [01:37.83] Now all you have is sand slipping through your fingers [01:42.28] You always wanted something more from my body [01:45.34] And said you needed something more from my loving [01:49.19] But all you got was me and that's all that I can be [01:52.92] I'm sorry if it let you down [01:56.44] But I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy [02:00.18] Trying to explain and being ashamed of things you think are wrong with me [02:03.95] I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy [02:07.33] Trying to explain and being ashamed of what you think is wrong with me, no! I'm not [02:18.44] [02:25.13] Set you up, you say I set you up [02:28.08] Like I was different then, what I am offering you now [02:31.85] Let you down, you say I let you down [02:35.05] And drug your heart around, did you forget about [02:38.77] All of the love and the acceptance that you promised me too? [02:46.71] [03:09.42] You always wanted something more from my body [03:12.71] And said you needed something more from my loving [03:16.71] But all you got was me and that's all that I can be [03:20.14] I'm sorry if it let you down [03:23.06] You always wanted something more from my body [03:26.82] And said you needed something more from my loving [03:30.42] But all you got was me and that's all that I can be [03:33.93] I'm sorry if it let you down [03:37.01] But I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy [03:41.27] Trying to explain and being ashamed of what you think is wrong with me [03:44.52] I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy [03:48.43] Trying to explain and being ashamed of what you think is wrong with me, no [03:58.83] La, la, la, la-la-la, la, la [04:04.18] La, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-e, la, la [04:10.65] La, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-e, la, la [04:20.89]