Good Woman Down

In my life I've seen It all Now it's time For me To pass On this Knowledge to you All my sisters My troubled sisters This is my Gift to you Been many days Couldn't take The pain Felt like I should take My life away See it everyday In every other Young sisters face (Young sister, sister) See'em cryin' out Life full of doubt Runnin' in the streets No self esteem Thinkin' that Use to be me What a shame [Bridge] And life Is a mother It's hard To sit back And see The same thing Happen to me Happen to you This ain't love But here's The love I wanna give to you [Chorus] It doesn't Matter what They say or do Don't let'em Get to you Don't be afraid You can, you can You can breakthrough Take what I've been through To see that You can't Hold a good Woman down Went through The same point Of givin' up I-I felt Like I had enough Went to the edge Of the ledge But I didn't jump "My Life" Will sum it up You can't Hold a good Woman down When I use to see My daddy beat My mother down Down to her feet I use to say That ain't goin' Never be me (Never be me) Now look at you Bruised up From him Girl recognize You're better then Him tellin' you That he'll never hit You again Girl don't cry [Bridge] [Chorus] Through your changes I will hold your hand Use my songs As remedies Whenever you're feelin' Down or blue I'll be there for you Trust And know That I've been Where you're at Seen the things That you can see Lookin' at you Resembles me But you gotta Hold your own [Chorus] [Repeat: x6] Can't hold me Down You can't hold me [Repeat: x6] Can't hold me Down You can't hold me Their you have it I'm still with you My sisters My troubled sisters I still have troubles, too You're not alone I'll always be there For you Rock on You can't hold A good woman down --- Good Woman Down - Mary J. Blige