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