I Need Me to Be for Me - Peter, Paul and Mary

Hey Jess, I heard you talkin' on the telephone

And I wish that you could say it to my face

I know you think I’ve changed and I don’t love you

But I’ve only reached another time and space

I guess we’ve been avoiding total honesty

But we can’t leave confrontation on the shelf

Though I know that love brought us together

In finding one another I almost lost myself

I need me to be for me, to be free and to discover

I need me to be for me, and then we still can be for each other

Who am I deprived of my identity

If I am not myself when we’re apart

What is love that mirrors back no sense of me

What can I give to you now if it isn’t my own heart?

And then we still can be for each other