my mom picked this song for her memorial dvd in her last days as she battled ovarian cancer...she couldn't of picked anything BETTER!!! this song is her all day. i Love n Miss u soo much mommy💜💜
I cry every time I hear this. There are so many outside influences that will make you question the beauty of who you are but you can only be YOU & YOU are good enough!!! Thank you MaryJ for making this song !!! It resonates so deeply with my soul .
You know this song is IT when you work in a level 2 hospital and your patient has suffered a traumatic brain injury and cant even hold a conversation with you but when he heard this song he was able to actually speak a few words to this song and sway his body to the rhythm of the beat. Mary is a deep sister and her music is truly therapeutic on so many levels!
May God bless you with His Strength & peace as you care for you & your patients, I feel you...💗🕊 This IS an amazing song. Such amazing ladies y'all are.
A little known fact .... that’s a live band playing, y’all. I watched the making of the video. Mary wanted the live feel of the song instead of the studio/radio version for this video.. Huge Mary fan over here lol 12/13/19)
Wow Really I Would Love To Have A Sit Down With Her And Find Out Why She Wanted A "LIVE BAND ON THIS SONG" Making This Video??? She Do Everything For A Specific Reason😉😉😉
Also a HUGE Mary fan. Watching and listening to this song is extremely difficult and very emotional for me. Mary music helps to get I through the tougher times.
People that actually Lose themselves trying to be/do what other people want them to be/do and end up being Totally miserable trying to please everyone else, except oneself. Just be yourself, whoever doesn't like it, Doesnt Need to be in your life.
Fantastic point, so true, it would be great to know more of your wise thinking but this is your only online comment, please post more such insightful comments.
That's a lie thanks to independent media there is lots of good music on the internet. Just because you don't hear it on the radio doesn't men it doesn't exist or people aren't hearing it. A lot of these internet artists have significant fan bases. How old are you 40?
When that woman, from her very gut, and with everything in her sang, “You can’t take that from me” , know that this meant no one on this very earth! Respect to Mary! Beautiful Warrior Woman and Alchemist!
You guys do not understand the power behind this song... from the initial piano keys... to the very end. Man, oh man... just the piano brings me to tears... but the message? and the power that Ms Blige delivered? .... man.
She's been down and out She's been wrote about She's been talked about constantly She's been up and down She's been pushed around But they held her down, NYC She has no regrets She accepts the past All these things they Helped make to make she She's been lost and found And she's still around There's a reason for everything You know I've been holdin' on Try to make me weak But I still stay strong Put my life all up in these songs Just so you can feel me So you can get the real me So take me as I am Or have nothing at all (nothing at all) Just take me as I am Or have nothing at all (at all) Now she's older now Yes, she's wiser now Can't disguise her now She don't need No one tellin' her What to do and say No one tellin' her Who to be She's on solid ground She's been lost and found Now she answers to G-O-D And she's confident This is not the end Ask me how I know 'Cause she is me You know I've been holdin' on Try to make me weak But I still stay strong Put my life all up in these songs Just so you can feel me So you can get the real me So take me as I am Or have nothing at all (nothing at all) Just take me as I am Or have nothing at all (at all) So it's all or nothing at all All or nothing at all Don't you know I can only be me (I can only be me, yeah) So it's all or nothing at all All or nothing at all Don't you know I can only be me (I can only be me, yeah) So take me as I am Or have nothing at all (nothing at all) Just take me as I am Or have nothing at all (at all) This is me!
*God 11 years later and beautiful masterpiece still makes me cry, this was pure beauty and emotion into this song.* So heartfelt gosh. This is one of my most inspirational songs I ever heard in my life that it stuck with me. I'm glad her and mariah Carey are friends because I found Mary through Mariah with We Belong Together. #TimelessMusic #Classic
Ur so right abt this statement bc I could just cry now, the song brought bk so many memories and moments in my life. Love mjb!! She's the queen of R&B, music is very real and honest!!!!!!!! Wish she would come back n never leave again.
& to this day, I here this song, relate, 😢,& wonder what is it that makes people dislike me? My conclusion, because I am me,& if that is the problem, Sorry, but not sorry.
Even if my momma is jealous of me envious of me, even hates me...I still will love her from a distance. I AM WORTHY OF EVERYTHING. IM BECOMING MY PEACE. I no longer need for you to accept me, you have your own journey. I'm no longer accepting inheritance wounds I'm moving them out of my way. One love.
I like how every version of Mary has that "grass is greener" mentality. The Waitress wants the Magazine Editors life. The Magazine Editor wants the Supermodel's life. Only to find out that Supermodel Mary doesnt even want her own life. Sometimes, the more "glamourous" a persons life is, the more unhappy they are. The supermodels can be jealous of the waitresses in real life. Love this message.
I can vision myself to the pain and strength each and every bit of this amazing song I feel so deeply and emotional every time I listen is like the first and is so true for many of us real , life .
I feel the same I hope yous all find the person I have given up on love I just meet men that use you and tell you lies I pray to God that I can find a soulmate good luck 🙏 god bless 🍀
Aretha Franklin was my favorite female singer until Mary j Blige came out maybe because I was in high school grew up on her music never heard a song from her that I didn't love 💕😘
The pressure of being a woman is strong. Having to stay on top of appearance before another woman steals the spot light. It's hard... Especially if your man doesn't make you feel good enough. But at the end of it all, as woman we must except our individual greatness. We have the gift to bare children. The gift to make a place into a home. Ingredients into food. Money into greater things. Remember men.... Just as you see there's better looking woman then the one you have at home... There are better looking men out there waiting to treat your woman right!
Been search for this song for a years.. i heard this song when i was kid about 10 years old in 8tv nite live. Finally, here i am. From malaysia.. love mary j blige.
Hey…don’t be like that. Everyone has their struggles, and not 100% of hurt comes from experience. 15 years is plenty of time to have suffered, and even if not, some brains are just wired to be depressed. Its real. Its not a race or a comparison, thats what Mary illustrates here. ALL women, of all ages, races, creeds, backgrounds, economies, have these same struggles, and more often than not our stories interweave. NEVER lessen or compare your strains in life, your job is only to recognize, repair, and repossess your OWN LIFE and the rest will come. Take YOURSELF as you are. Wishing you the best! Love Syracuse NY. NYStrong.
@@blc28x Thank you for your powerful comment. It's so true when you said that you shouldn't lessen or compare your strains in life. This is especially true when you feel like you shouldn't talk about your problems because everyone faces there struggles and some even worse than yours. So people expect you to suck it up and move on.
No one never truly takes us for who we are and what our self-worth is put God first and sugar you never last amen yes cuz he's going to put you where you need to be God bless you all my sisters
This song and Ain't Really Love from the same album got me through a rough time in my 20s. Ladies, there's a secret. Our minds have been played with all our lives, a man can never be enough, they are as flawed as we are. Only our Creator can fill that emptiness inside of us.
You ladies must thank God doesn't have standards!! You must think God doesn't have rules and requirements. You want him to be your healer and you're a deliverer but you don't want him to be your Lord. God is love, but God is also holy. Jesus said if you love me, keep my commandments. He's not the author of confusion but of peace. So if your life is chaotic, if you're out of order, then God is not in that.
This is a very touching song, it hits a women at all angles, no one is perfect on this earth and never will be, we all have flaws visible and invisible.
My auntie gon say what you gonna wear on your date I said " ima dress like a whole bum" then I started singing this haha fr tho u gotta see me when I'm lookin rough ND da bomb lol
This single helped me to remain true to who I am, through dark nights of the soul, her voice and these lyrics connected me back to highest self. God Bless this Deva.
It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are NOT.Regardless if mistakes,opinions,or judgements,never give up or let anyone define YOU because YOU know yourself better than anyone whether you know this or not. I relate to this song because it explains how noone can ever really take anything from you.They are actually talking away from themselves but don't realize this.
Another classic and when you get this you are not going to ever have to worry because you will be the light and help others know he better treat her right and not come over every night. Wisdom is the power of a woman who chose to stand and withstand even when they don't understand!
My little sister picked no more drama 🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️ for me here and now actually when it first hit the air waves and I still play and and remember her saying ,sister this song is you when I talk to her it makes me smile 😁 she has always treated me like I'm her little sister and she still dose wow ,, thank you Mary you have managed to make every song for every situation A woman has been going through or going through I want to thank you Ms Blige you truly deserves your name that they have given you in the industry 🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It takes a survivor, a woman a very long time to come to the realization that they have worth that they can be someone, that they deserve to be treated with respect. It takes just that right kind of man to come to the understanding to treat the woman with respect. As a woman I am Important…I am Good….I am Smart…I ask myself to realize I am someone and I deserve to be treated as such
U are not I am 14 and I only listen to the old stuff because it's has soul this new music is shit and some times I feel it's hard to find people like us at a young age but no were not the only ones believe it or not. Buy thiers trillions of people in this world I'm sure theirs alot that think like us
Honestly when I hear this song I cry every time just hard when you feel like you're constantly being attacked for just being yourself and you just want to be loved😪
16 years back, I was 12 years, singing this song without knowing what the message behind it. But now as I weathered my teenage and early adulthood days, I finally got what it meant: take me as I am or just erase yourself off my life. All my life, I've been dealing with rejection, denial of my sexuality from my close friends and family, dealing with repressed and unadressed trauma while going through with life. Now I'm 27 going 28, this song is now my life, shit this is the reason why I love Mary more.
Listening to this song for the first time while I'm having a breakdown. Talk about perfect timing. God bless the artists that come through with the songs that are needed at the right time
I love this song a true LEGEND. A CAPRICORN WHO HAS ALWAYS KEPT IT REAL THRU ALL HER UPS AND DOWNS. CONGRATULATIONS MARY ON ALL UR SUCCESS. IM SO HAPPY GOD HAS REMOVED THAT DEVIL OUT UR LIFE MAY NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS AND BLESSING COME TO U AS U CONTINUE ON UR JOURNEY. KEEP THIS GOOD REAL MUSIC COMING.
