you can love yourself

Lyrics

my baby she wrote me a letter, she didn't call me on the phone, five little words was all she wrote, she said, see ya later i'm gone, she had no explanation, about why she had to go, well i can't take a joke, but i can take a hint, she don't love me no more, and if nobody loves you, and you feel like dust on an empty shelf, just remember, you can love yourself, my mother says she loves me, but you know she could, be jivin' too, and everybody's always, criticizing everything that i do, i work 9 to 5, do the best i can, try to please the boss, i bought a big ol' house, and a brand new car, and then he laid me off, everytime i meet a lady, i wanna try to get to know, either i'm too small or, she's too tall, she's rich and i'm po', so i called my old, friend hazel mae, asked her out for a little date, she said "i'm married now and i got, three little kids, boy, ya' just a little too late"