As I Am

Alicia Keys As I Am Lyrics
1.As I Am (Intro)


2.Go Ahead

Oh oh oh oh (x4)

Broken promises
My heart you stole
Lies you told
Got the best of me
Diggin in my heart of gold
Used to look at you and see the possibilites
I see you for who you are
Boy you disappointed me

I thought you gave me love
Was never near enough
Soon enough time reveals
The wait of what is real
I know all I need to know
Boy see you gotta go
What have you given me
But lies, lies

Go ahead
Go homie get up outta here
Go ahead baby
You knew you was wrong
You knew all along
Must be crazy
If you think Ima fall for this anymore
(Everybody say Na na na no) x2

You stood believing every word you said
clouds my head
Leaving me here to drown
Hopes and dreams left for dead
You point your finger tryna justify your mistakes
Oh change is gon' be made
So you best be on your way

I thought you gave me love
Was never near enough
Soon enough time reveals
The wait of what is real
I know all I need to know
Boy see you gotta go
What have you given me
But lies, lies

Go ahead
Go homie get up outta here
Go ahead baby
You knew you was wrong
You knew all along
Must be crazy
If you think Ima fall for this anymore
(Everybody say Na na na no) x2

No need to apologize
Don't try to make it right
I know, I shoulda known better
When you took hold
I was so using fear to control
Now it unfolds
Lemme tell you right now what I'm gonna do
Made up my mind
It's time that I'm through with you
Nothing you can say or can do can make me change my mind
So just ...

Go ahead
Go homie get up outta here
Go ahead baby
You knew you was wrong
You knew all along
Must be crazy
If you think Ima fall for this anymore
(Everybody say Na na na no) x2


3.Superwoman

Everywhere I'm turning
Nothing seems complete
I stand up and I'm searching
For the better part of me
I hang my head from sorrow
Slave to humanity
I wear it on my shoulders
Gotta find the strength in me

Cause I am a Superwoman
Yes I am
Yes she is
Even when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes
I'm a Superwoman

For all the mothers fighting
For better days to come
And all my women, all my women sitting here trying
To come home before the sun
And all my sisters
Coming together
Say yes I will
Yes I can

Cause I am a Superwoman
Yes I am
Yes she is
Even when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes
I'm a Superwoman

When I'm breaking down
And I can't be found
And I start to get weak
Cause no one knows
Me underneath these clothes
But I can fly
We can fly, Oooohh

Cause I am a Superwoman
Yes I am
Yes she is
Even when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes
I'm a Superwoman


4.No One

I just want you close
Where you can stay forever
You can be sure
That it will only get better
You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry cause
Everything's gonna be alright
People keep talking
They can say what they like
But all I know is everything's gonna be alright

No one no one no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one no one no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you
You you
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

When the rain is pouring down
And my heart is hurting
You will always be around
This I know for certain

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry cause
Everything's gonna be alright
People keep talking
They can say what they like
But all I know is everything's gonna be alright

No one no one no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one no one no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you
You you
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

I know some people search the world
To find something like what we have
I know people will try
Try to divide
Something so real
So till the end of time
I'm telling you that

No one no one no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one no one no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you
oh oh oh....


5.Like You'll Never See Me Again

If I had no more time
No more time left to be here
Would you cherish what we had?
Was it everything that you were looking for?
If I couldn't feel your touch
And no longer were you with me
I'd be wishing you were here
To be everything that I'd be looking for
I don't wanna forget the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted the time you may have here
with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day is not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again
Every time you touch me
Touch me like this is the last time
Promise that you'll love me
Love me like you'll never see me again

Oh Oh Ohhhhh

How many really know what love is?
No you never will
Do you know until you lose it
That it's everything that we are looking for
When I wake up in the morning
You're beside me
I'm so thankful that I found
Everything that I been looking for

I don't wanna forget the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted the time you may have here
with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day is not really guaranteed

So everytime you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again
(can you do that for me baby)
Every time you touch me
(see we don't really know)
Touch me like this is the last time
(see everyday we never know)
Promise that you'll love me
(I want you to promise me)
Love me like you'll never see me again
(like you'll never see me again)


6.Lesson Learned

feat. John Mayer

He broke a heart
And now it's raining
Just to rub it in
I'm at your door
I feel so crazy about it
You'll say I told you so
You saw it long ago
You knew he had to go
I finally came 'round
I'm back on solid ground
Can't let it get me down

It's alright
It's alright
It's alright

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned

Sometimes
Some lies
Can take a minute
To fully realize
His tears
Your eyes
Thirty seconds to apologize
You give it one more chance
Just like the time before
But he already know you'd give a hundred more
Until that night in bed
You wake up in a sweat
You're racing to the door
Can't take it anymore

I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned

Life perfect
Ain't perfect
If you don't know what the struggle's for
Falling down ain't falling down
If you don't cry when you hit the floor
It's called the past cause I'm getting past
And I ain't nothing like I was before
You ought to see me now

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned


7.Wreckless Love

Let's take it back a little bit
You know it's not that it's not good now
I'm just remembering how ...
Well let me tell you

Let's go back in time when seeing your ID on mine
Made me crazy, Oh baby
I'm saying let's go back there (go back there)
Let's take it there (take it there)
Talkin bout back in time when you wanted to know my every move
trying to keep it smooth, keeping up with me
You drove me crazy, Oh Baby
Let's go back there (go back there)
Let's take it there (Take it there)

When you didn't know me
Didn't need me
Wanted to touch me
Couldn't leave me
I could know how far this would go
Could know if this was for sure
We .. Just .. Could .. Not
We just could not get enough of it, Baby

Let's go have that wreckless love
That crazy love
That off the wall won't stop til I get enough kind of love
I need that love
So Baby let's go have that wreckless love
That crazy love
That I don't really care we can have it anywhere kind of love
That wreckless love

Let's go back in time when our kiss was brand new
An adventure, not perfected, a little hesitant
Let's go back there (go back there)
Let's take it there (take it there)
Take it back in time when forever was a minute
An eternity was a second
I'm stressin that we gotta go back there (go back there)
Let's take it there (take it there)

When you didn't know me
Didn't need me
Wanted to touch me
Couldn't leave me
I couldn't know how far this would go
I couldn't know if this was for sure
We .. Just .. Could .. Not
We just could not get enough of it, Baby

Let's go have that wreckless love
That crazy love
That off the wall won't stop til I get enough kind of love
I need that love
So Baby let's go have that wreckless love
That crazy love
That I don't really care we can have it anywhere kind of love
That wreckless love

Oh Baby let's go have that wreckless love
That crazy love
That off the wall won't stop til I get enough kind of love
I need that love
So Baby let's go have that wreckless love
That crazy love
That I don't really care we can have it anywhere kind of love
That wreckless love


8.The Thing About Love

Love
Love will come find you
Just to remind you
Of who you are

Hold on
It will forsake you
Threaten to break you
Take what you got

Everybody laughs
Everybody cries
Sure it could hurt you baby
But give it a lil try
See that's the thing about love

Friends
Sometimes will blind you
Sneak up behind you
You cant give enough

Then life
It will embrace you
Totally amaze you
So you don't give up

Everybody laughs
Everybody cries
Sure it could hurt you baby

But give it a lil try
See that's the thing about love

Don't tell me that i'm not the only that's going thru it all
Ohhh sometimes I feel like i'm the only that's going thru it all
But its time
Oh its time
For me to shine
Hey
Its my time
Oh its time
For me to shine

Its my time
Said its my time
For me to shine
Its my time
Its bout time
For me to shine

Everybody laughs
Everybody cries
Sure it could hurt u baby
But give it a lil try
That's the thing about love
That's the thing about love
That's the thing about
That's the thing about love


9.Teenage Love Affair

Can't wait to get home
Baby dial your number
Can u pick up the phone
Cause I wanna holla
Daydreaming about you all day
In school can't concentrate
Want have your voice in my ear
'Till ma comes and says its too late
When the lights are on outside
Could you find somewhere to hide
Cause I just don't want to say goodbye
Cause you are my baby baby

Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gunna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair

Another secret meeting
On the 5th floor stair case
I'm wanna give you this letter
Of all the things I cant say
Want you to be my first my last my ending and beginning
I wrote your name in my book
You last name my first
I'm your Mrs.

When the lights are on outside
Could you find somewhere to hide
Cause I just don't want to say goodbye
Cause you are my baby baby

Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gunna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair


Hey boy
You know I really like being with u right?
Just hanging out with you is fun

So maybe we can go to first base
Because I feel you
Second base
Want you to feel me too
Third base
Better pump the breaks
Well baby slow down
I gotta go home now

Cause the lights are on outside
Wish there was somewhere to hide
Cause I just don't want to say goodbye
Cause you are my baby baby

Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gunna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
my first teenage love affair

My baby baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gunna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair


10.I Need You

You're too far away I wonder why I can't say I need you now
Walkin' around can't keep my feet on the ground
We used to hold hands but now you don't give a damn about me
Why can't you see?

(chorus)
I need you
I want you
I love you
I lost you
You broke me
Why can't you hold me now

You broke my heart all I do is
Scream real loud pick you up and throw you down
You broke my heart I don't know where to start but
Baby I need you baby I need you

Verse 2
I'm starting to read every night
I'm fallin asleep to make it right and not think about you baby
I say to myself this is goin' great
Who am I kidding
This is all fake
I start to think of all my needs and this is what I sing


11.Where Do We Go from Here

Oh I know I'm gonna miss you either ways
It's such a lonely road

Where do we go from here?
All I can do is - follow the tracks of my tears
Oh

When I cry your name
Am I crawling in bed
Oh and am I waiting only to drown in pain
Oh
Don't you do it
No, said don't you leave me this way
I don't know
If I can lift my head and face another day
Ooh it's such a lonely road

Where do we go from here?
All I can do is - follow the tracks of my tears

You seem now the kind of girl who's lost and looking for
direction
(Who could this be? Staring at me)
When I'm looking in the mirror trying to find a resolution
(Me too far gone, to find my way home)

Where do we go from here?
All I can do is - follow the tracks of my tears


12.Prelude to a Kiss

Sometimes I feel
Like I don't belong anywhere
It's gonna take so long
For me to get somewhere
Sometimes I feel
So heavy-hearted
But I can't explain
Cuz I'm so guarded
But that's a lonely road to travel
And a heavy load to bare
And it's a long, long way to heaven
But I gotta get there
Can you send an angel?
Can you send me an angel
To guide me


13.Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)

Get so caught up everyday
Tryin' to keep it all together
While the time just slips away
See I know nothing last forever

Imagine there was no tomorrow
Imagine that I couldn't see your face
There'll be no limit to my sorrow
So all I can say...

I wanna tell you something
Give you somethin, show you in so many ways
Cuz it would all mean nuthin, If I don't say something
Before it all blows away
Don't wanna wait to bring you flowers
Waste another hour, let alone another day
I'm gonna tell you something
Show you something, won't wait till it's too late

I can't wait, I can't wait, I won't wait, I don't wanna wait
Repeat
I won't wait 'till it's too late

Just a simple conversation
Just a moment is all it takes (yeah)
I wanna be there just to listen (I wanna be here)
And I don't wanna hesitate

Imagine there was no tomorrow
Imagine that I couldn't see your face
There'll be no limit to my sorrow
'Cause there is nothin that could fill that space
Or that i put it off for too long
I didnt say all that I had to say
I wanna take the time to right the wrong before we get to that
place

I wanna tell you something
Give you somethin, show you in so many ways
Cuz it would all mean nuthin, If I don't say something
Before it all blows away
Don't wanna wait to bring you flowers
Waste another hour, let alone another day
I'm gonna tell you something
Show you something, won't wait till it's too late

(Brigde)
Just lean on my shoulder
It's not over till its over
Don't worry 'bout it
Cause im gonna make sure our bond gets stronger (yeah)
I don't wanna wait until the storm if somethings wrong
And now you're gone and I can't find ya

I wanna tell you something
Give you somethin, show you in so many ways
Cuz it would all mean nuthin, If I don't say something
Before it all blows away
Don't wanna wait to bring you flowers
Waste another hour, let alone another day
I'm gonna tell you something
Show you something, won't wait till it's too late
Repeat

I can't wait, I cant wait, I won't wait, I don't wanna wait
Repeat 3x


14.Sure Looks Good to Me

Life is cheap, bitter sweet
But it seems good to me

Take my turn, crash and burn
How its supposed to be

(CHORUS)
So don't rain on my parade
Life's too short to waste one day
I'm gonna risk it all to freed on the fall
Yes its sure looks good to me

Time passed by and leaves you behind
Taken as you leave

Heaven knows, there's so much more
More than what we see

(CHORUS)
So don't rain on my parade
Life's too short to waste one day
And I'm gonna risk it all to freed on the fall
Yes its sure looks good to me
It sure looks good to me

(BRIDGE)
Deep in my mind
I'm secure we can buy
I wanna see life or I die or a lie in an empty space

The darkness comes and I've been telling my soul
And me and myself we turn around, we're getting old

But the lightning crashing, foolish emotions
Of the burses and the beauty in this moment that we're feeling

And I feel like I'm seeing the world inside of me
But I can tell you that no, its getting easy and I'm free

There's a cold in the morning, endless equation
Of who've we become, it's a complex situation

So live, love, lie give love
Live, love, lie give love
Live, love, lie give love

It's who are we, anyway

(CHORUS)
So don't rain on my parade
Life's too short to waste one day
I'm gonna risk it all to freed on the fall
Yes its sure looks good to me
It sure looks good to me
(I'm telling you) It sure looks good to me
It sure looks good to me
Looks good to me
Yeah, yeah, yeah