love me for me

phone rings, don't wanna pick it up, i'm so scared, i'm gonna say too much, i tip toe around your questions, why you gotta dig so deep?, tears fall, and the glasses break, inside these walls, the floor boards shake, but from outside, it's alright, long as you looking from fifty feet, i've been trying trying, hold my head up high, i've been lying lying, keeping it all inside, trying not to trust you, yeah, take another leaf, i'm a broke yeah yeah?, i'm done, i give up, i don't wanna pretend no more, that's it, so what?, i've lost a friend before, gonna say it like it is, no more wondering "what if?", that ain't the way you oughta live, cause i don't want you to love me, if you don't wanna love me for me, cause i don't want you to love me, if you don't wanna love me for me, a doll house is all that you could see, but it's so far from my reality, i got problems, i got issues, sometimes it's all too much for me, wrap it up with a pretty little bow, but there are some things you can't sugarcoat, so i give it to you anyway, even though it won't taste so sweet, i've been trying trying, hold my head up high, i've been lying lying, keeping it all inside, maybe i could trust you, yeah, take another leaf, i'm a broke yeah yeah?, i'm done, i give up, i don't wanna pretend no more, that's it, so what? so what?, i've lost a friend before, gonna say it like it is, no more wondering "what if?", that ain't the way you oughta live, cause i don't want you to love me, if you don't wanna love me for me, sick of all the fighting, all the slamming of the doors, the pain, the parents, too deep to ignore, step back, step back, can you see it through my eyes?, i know, i know, it may be a surprise, don't wanna be perceived for something that i'm not, just wanna be accepted for the little that i got, if you could see me now in my glass house, not ready to let you in, oh, yeah yeah. not ready to let you in, i'm done, i give up, i don't wanna pretend no more, that's it, so what?, i've lost a friend before, gonna say it like it is, no more wondering "what if?", that ain't the way you oughta live, cause i don't want you to love me, if you don't wanna love me for me, cause i don't want you to love me, if you don't wanna love me for me, cause i don't want you to love me, if you don't wanna love me for me