For too long I was weak

Too weak to find my feet

I tried to hold it all inside

So you'd never realize

For too long I believed

That you were good for me

I closed my mind

To other possibilities

You tried to out my fire

Yes you did, yes you did

Then you took control of me, yeah

Maybe I was just too scared

Maybe what you're looking for is gone

'Cause, baby, I learned to love myself

I don't need no one else

Baby, can't you see that

I don't need your chains around me

You said that this was love

And it was just too much

I needed to be free

Your kind of love was killing me

Yeah, it's killing me

Well, people say I've changed

Yes, I don't feel the same

They say I have a glow

It's all because you're gone

I learned to love myself

I don't need no one else

Baby, can't you see that

I don't need your chains around me

It's independence day

Now I've found my way

I don't need your love

To prove that I'm somebody

Maybe I was just too scared

Maybe what you're looking for is gone

'Cause baby I, I learned to love myself

I don't need no one else

And baby can't you see that

I don't need your chains around me

You said that this was love

And it was just too much

I needed to be free

Your kind of love was killing me

Baby, baby

Your kind of love was killing me, yeah

Baby, yeah, oh baby, yeah

Your kind of love was killing me, yeah

I don't need no one else

I learned to love myself

Your kind of love was killing me, yeah

I just don't need it

Don't need you kind of love

Your kind of love was killing me, yeah

Oh, I don't need it, yeah

Yeah, it was killing me, yeah

Yeah, it's killing me