Lauryn Hill - Ex-factor/Manifest (Live in Japan)

You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn’t returned
I found out the man I’d die for, he wasn’t even concerned
And time it turned, he tried to burn me like a perm
Though my eyes saw the deception,
my heart wouldn’t let me learn
For some dumb woman was I
And every time he’d lie, he would cry and inside I’d die
My heart must’ve died a thousand deaths
Compared myself to Toni Braxton
thought I’d never catch my breath
Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest
I tried to call the cops, that type of thief they can’t arrest
Pain suppressed will lead to cardiac arrest
Diamonds deserve diamonds but he convinced me
I was worth less
When my peoples would protest I told them mind their business, cause my shit was complex,
more than just the sex
I was blessed, but couldn’t feel it like when I was caressed
I’d spend nights clutching my breast overwhelmed by God’s test
I was God’s best contemplating death with a Gillette
But no man is ever worth the paradise
No man is ever worth the paradise, manifest