©Before I Loved You By Darlene C. McCoy©
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I woke up this morning
With my eyes wide open
After crying all night long

If you cried all night long, then you would already be awake. Could use "got up" or "I faced the morning" or something like that


I looked in the mirror

I'd be interested in what the singer saw in the mirror, but maybe that's a different song

and I said to myself
It's time for you to be strong
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To many nights I sat here waiting for you

Should be "too many nights"

Waiting for you to come home
But you always left me wonderin
everynight I wasn't with you
If you were out there alone

This has been done pretty often. Can you think of a fresher way of saying it?

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Before I loved you
I was fine on my own

I'd like something stronger here than "fine"

Before I loved you
I was never at home
Before I loved you
I was really my own fan n
I'll step back, to where
it all began


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I'll not wait any longer

"I won't" sounds more natural to my ears, and scans the same

For you to call me
call me on the phone

Do cell phomes make the concept of sitting at home waiting for the phone a concept from, oh, say, MY age group?

I won't sit here and wonder
Wonder why you're never at home

Would this work better if the singer said what she was going to do, rather than what she was not going to do?

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I've wasted to many hours

"too many"

Waiting for you ,
waiting for you to fit me in
I like this line a lot

I'm not going to devour
all the Bull Shittt ,that you pretend
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Before I loved you
I was fine on my own
Before I loved you
I was never at home
Before I loved you
I was really my own fan n
I'll step back to where
it all began

outro
I'm on my own time now
And I'm gonna step out
And if you think you can catch me
Well It something, that I doubt

A verb is missing here ... "It's something" ... but however this is done, this sounds like a line that is here to rhyme with "out"

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