When I Can’t Do Better (From the Original Motion Picture “The Color Purple”) Lyrics

Don't hold your love over my head
Please don't use it against me
Don't be that way tonight
Don't be that way tonight
Don't touch me with self-righteous hands
Promise you won't judge me
Don't walk away tonight
Embrace me, save me from myself
Don't you hate me when I can't do better?
Feel me, heal me if you dare
It would kill me to lose you forever
Mmm
When it gets dark and it just don't come easy 'cause
It's too hard and we're too far gone, stay with me now
Oh
Pray for me now
When I mean good, but the strength just
Ain't there to do good, tell me we good
Talk to me now when I can't do better
If I give you power to carry me, don't
You use that power just to bury me
It's been a long night
Fuck it, it's been a long life
Mmm
But the truth is what I do with it
It's my biz 'til I'm through with it
And it's my bed, so I lay in it 'cause I'm cool with it
So embrace me, save me from myself
Don't you hate me when I can't do better?
Feel me, heal me if you dare
It would kill me to lose you forever
And I need you to know when it gets dark and it just don't come
Easy 'cause it's too hard and we're too far gone, stay with me now
Oh, oh
Pray for me now
When I mean good, but the strength just
Ain't there to do good, tell me we good
Talk to me now when I can't do better
When I can't do better
Ooh, baby, love me through it
We can do it, we can get through it
So embrace me, baby
Hold me, baby
When I can't do better
Ooh
Ooh, ooh