I Need Me To Be For Me Lyrics - Peter, Paul & 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? 

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 

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

And then we still can be for each other