You Can Love Yourself

My baby he wrote me a letter

He didn't call me on the phone

Five little words was all he wrote

He said, see ya later I'm gone

He had no explanation

About why he had to go

Well I can't take a joke

But I can take a hint

He don't love me no more

And if nobody loves you

And you feel like dust on an empty shelf

Just remember

You can love yourself

My mother says she loves me

But you know she could

Be jivin' too

And everybody's always

Criticizing everything that I do

When nobody loves you

And you’re feeling like dust on an empty shelf

Just remember

You can love yourself

I work 9 to 5, I do the best I can

Try to please the boss

I bought a big ol' house

And a brand new car

And then he laid me off

Everytime I meet a man

I’d like to get to know

Either I'm too small or

He’s too tall

Or He’s rich and I'm poor

So I called my old friend Joe

Asked him out for a little date

He said "I'm married now and I got

Three little kid where were you

Ya' just a little too late"