I Need Me To Be for Me

Peter, Paul and Mary

1. 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. 
   
2. 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. 
   
R: 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. 
   
3. 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? 
R: 
   
   And then we still can be for each other.