Feel Inside

[Intro: Mary]

Turn the track up a little bit

We need to rock in here

Oh, oh, oh

I wanna make you happy

[Verse 1: Nas]

I'm not at all happy or elated, this category ain't my favorite

It's my story, I'ma state it, you could love it or hate it

I'm just a misfit blessed with good dick and intelligence

Hood nigga holding no grudges on petty shit

I started, why are we cold-hearted, so guarded

Scared to get hurt, trying not to love the hardest

That's garbage, remember when we loved each other

Bathtub scrubbed each other, chillin', champagne spillin'

Uh, feelin' like the shit gon' last forever

Time went so fast, we had a blast together

Laughs we had, friends we spent time with

Now I be seeing your friends out, then I'm reminded

How we all used to gather up for the holidays

Now your friends all nervous to speak, they act afraid

I was your bestie, how it get to this

As I reminisce, takin' off my MJs in my empty crib

Mary...

[Verse 2: Mary]

I wanna make you happy

But you just don't see it

I wanna be around, babe

But I'm so tired of competing

We say all the wrong things

'Til we make each other cry

What are we doing?

Will it ever get better?

[Pre-Chorus: Mary]

My heart, my soul

I gave, it's yours

I can't get back

All the things that I lost

Boy, I love you

But you're pushing me away

[Chorus: Mary]

I gave you everything that I got

Watched my feelings walk on by

Ever get sick of trying?

This is how I feel inside

I feel inside

This is how I feel, this is how I feel

[Verse 3: Mary]

Now I was hoping we'd get through this together

You said you'd love me through all types of stormy weather

Wasn't it you who said we'd be together for all time

But it keeps messing with my mind, oh oh

[Pre-Chorus: Mary]

My heart, my soul

I gave, it's yours

I can't get back

All the things that I lost

I need you here near me

But I can't make you stay

[Chorus: Mary]

I gave you everything that I got

Watched my feelings walk on by

Ever get sick of trying?

This is how I feel inside

I feel inside

This is how I feel, this is how I feel

[Bridge: Mary]

I never thought that I would have this feeling

Do you think for once that you can truly mean it?

Wasting so much time disagreeing

See, I'm to the point where I don't know what I believe in

[Verse 4]

[Nas]

If you don't want this, I don't want this, I do my morning crunches

Play my jazz, pray to the east, and watch the sunset

Uh, but yet I was blowin' you up the other night

Could tell your girl was telling you what to write back

Tell me why it's like that

[Mary]

So make up your mind, boy decide

We can't go on like this, this ain't right (It ain't right)

Feeling really bad, feeling kinda low

Think it's time to go, oh oh

[Chorus: Mary]

I gave you everything that I got

Watched my feelings walk on by

Ever get sick of trying?

This is how I feel inside

I feel inside

This is how I feel, this is how I feel

[Outro: Nas & Mary]

Sir Nas, Mrs. Mary J. Blige

And this is her life

Yeah, this is her life

Yeah, yeah yeah

This is how I feel, this is how I feel

Yeah

Let me hear that

Brook-Lynn, Brook-Lynn, Brook-Lynn, Brook-Lynn, Brook-Lynn