Work in Progress
Mary J. Blige

Look in my eyes.
Tell me what you see
Do you see perfection in me?
To you, do I look complete?
Now take one more look pass my celebrity.
That's where you'll find the real me.
To you, do I still look complete?

I got every material thing I could ever need. (Hm)
I got the love from my fans that adore me. (Yeah)
And I'm grateful. (And I thank you so very much)
But my love for myself is lacking a little bit. (Just a little bit)
I can admit that I'm working on me. (Hm)
Staying faithful.
(Staying faithful and what I'm tryna say is)

Just like you sometimes I get down. (Just like you, I get down)
Sometimes I just wanna cry. (I just wanna cry)
Sometimes I get depressed.
And just like me, tryna be complete.
(And just like me, tryna be complete, oh)
Just understand we're all just a work in progress.

Life can be difficult.
No one promised that it would be...
(No one promised it would be sunshine all the time)
Sunshine all the time, easy.
Some pain is guaranteed.
But it ain't impossible.
You can find the joy, you see.
Took me a while but I did finally.
Open your eyes and you will see I'm just like you.

Just like you sometimes I get down. (Get down, oh)
Sometimes I just wanna cry. (Just wanna cry)
Sometimes I get depressed. (So depressed)
And just like me, tryna be complete. (Just like me, tryna be complete)
Just understand we're all just a work in progress. (We're all just, oh)

Anybody knowing what it is to struggle. (Oh)
Never ever running in the face of trouble. (Oh yeah)
Say I'm with you. (I'm with you)
I feel you. (I feel you)
I'm with you.
Just like you
(Sometimes I fall but I feel your pain. We're all the same)
(We're all the same, oh I am just like you)

Just like you sometimes I get down.
Sometimes I just wanna cry.
Sometimes I get depressed. (So depressed)
And just like me, tryna be complete.
(Oh just like, just like me)(Tryna be complete)
Just understand we're all just a work in progress.
(Just understand we're all a work in progress)

Just like you sometimes I get down. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh)
Sometimes I just wanna cry.
Sometimes I get depressed. (Can you hear me, can you feel me?)
And just like me, tryna be complete. (I am, I am, I'm just like you)
Just understand we're all just a work in progress. (A work in progress)


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  (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman   25/8 (Single)   2U   A Dream   A Natural Woman   A Real Lover   About You   Ain't Nobody   Ain't Really Love   All Fun & Games   All My Love   All of Me   All That I Can Say   All That I Can Say (Remix)   All That I Can Say Remix   Alone   Anything You Want   As   As"(feat. George Michael   Back 2 Life 2001   Back To Life 2001   Back To Life 2001"(feat. Jadakiss & DJ Clue   Baggage   Be Happy   Be Happy [Instrumental]   Be With You   Be With You (Remix)   Be With You (Remix) [feat. Raekwon]   Be With You (Remix)"(feat. Lauryn Hill   Be Without You   Be Without You (Kendu Mix)   Be Without You [DJ Vlad Remix]   Be Without You [Itunes Originals Acoustic Version]   Be Without You [Kendu Mix]   Be Without You [Lendu Mix]   Be Without You [Moto Blanco Vocal Mix]   Be Without You [Moto Blanco Vocal Remix]   Be Without You [Remix]   Be Without You/Laffy Taffy [R&B Blends]   Beautiful   Beautiful (Black Star Remix)   Beautiful (Black Star Remix)"(feat. Black Star   Beautiful Day   Beautiful Ones   Best of My Love   Brand New   Break Up To Make Up   Breakup To Makeup   Bridge Over Troubled Water [with Andrea Andrea Boc...   Can Love You   Can't Get Enough   Can't get You Off My Mind   Can't Hide From Love   Can't Hide From Luv   Can't Knock the Hustle   Can't Knock the Hustle/Family Affair   Change   Changes I've Been Going Through   Checkin' For Me   City Of Lights   Closer   Come Close [Remix]   Come To Me (Peace)   Confrontation   Confrontation [Bonus CD Version]   Confrontation"(feat. Funkmaster Flex and Big Kap   Crazy Games   Dance For Me   Dance For Me (featuring Common)   Dance For Me (G-Club Remix)   Dance for Me [Plutonium Mix]   Dance for Me [Plutonium Radio Edit]   Dance for Me Featuring Common   Day Dreaming   Deep Inside   Deep Inside (Remix)   Deep Inside (Remix)"(feat. Mobb Deep   Destiny   Didn't Mean   Disrespectful [Funky Junction & Anthony Reale Mix]   Do You Hear What I Hear?   Don't Go   Don't Play This Song   Don't Walk Away   Don't Waste Your Time   Don't Waste Your Time"(feat. Aretha Franklin   Don’t Mind   Doubt   Each Tear   Each Tear [*]   Empty Prayers   Enough Cryin   Enough Cryin [Album Version]   Enough Cryin'   Everyday It Rains   Everyday People   Everything   Everything (Curtis & Moore Remix)   Everything (So So Def Remix)   Everything (So So Def Remix)"(feat. JD & ROC   Fade Away   Family Affair   Family Affair (Remix)   Family Affair (Remix)"(feat. Jadakiss, Fabolous   Family Affair [Acappella]   Family Affair [Instrumental]   Family Affair [Itunes Originals Acoustic Version]   Family Affair [LP Version]   Father In You   Favorite Flavor   Feel Inside   Feel Like A Woman   Feel Like Makin Love   Feel Like Makin' Love   Finally Made It   Finally Made It (Interlude)   Flying Away   Flying Away (in album No More Drama)   Follow   Forever No More   Forever No More (poem)   Free (Interlude)   Friends   Get It Right   Get To Know You Better   Give Me You   Give Me You (Extended Nino Radio   Goin' Down   Gonna Breakthrough   Gonna Make It   Good Love   Good Woman Down   Grown Woman   Happy Holidays   Hard Times Come Again No More   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   He Think I Don't Know   He Think I Don't Know (HQ2 Club Mix)   He Think I Don't Know (HQZ Club Mix)   Hello It's Me   Hood Love   Hooked   Hurt Again   I Am (Dave Aude Remix)   I Can Love You   I Can See In Color   I Can't Wait   I Don't Want To Do Anything   I Don't Want to Do Anything (Remix)   I Don't Want To Do Anything [Live]   I Found My Everything   I Love U (Yes I Du)   I Love You   I Miss You   I Never Wanna Live Without You   I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By ...   I'm Goin' Down   I'm Going Down   I'm In Love   I'm The Only Woman   If I Don't Love You This Way   If U Leave   If You Love Me   If You Love Me?   Im going down   In the Meantime   Intro   Intro Talk   Irreversible   It's A Wrap   It's On   Just Fine   Just Fine [Main]   Keep It Movin'   Keep It Moving   Keep Your Head   King & Queen   Kiss And Make Up   Leave a Message   Let Me Be The 1   Let Me Be the 1 [New Album Version]   Let No Man Put Asunder   Let No Man Put Asunder (Remix)   Little Drummer Boy   Long Hard Look   Love   Love @ 1st Sight   Love @ 1st Sight [New Album Version]   Love @ First Sight   Love & Life   Love & Life (Intro)   Love A Woman   Love At First Sight   Love Is All We Need   Love Is All We Need (remix)   Love Is All We Needb   Love No Limit   Love No Limit (Remix)   Love No Limit [Hip Hop]   Love No Limit [Live]   Love No Limit [Puff Daddy Mix]   Loving A Woman   M.J.B. da M.V.P.   Making It Hard   Marvin Interlude   Mary Did You Know   Mary J. Blige Suitcase is an R&B mid-tempo from th...   Mary J. Blige The One Collaboration of Mary and Dr...   Mary Jane   Mary Jane (All Night Long)   Mary, Did You Know   Mary's Joint   Medley   Memories   Message - Mary Jblige   Message in Our Music (Interlude)   Midnight Drive   Mirror (Feat. Eve)   Miss Me With That   Missing You   Misty Blue   Mjb Da Mvp   MJB Da MVP [Alternate Version][*]   Moment Of Love   Mr. Wrong   Mr. Wrong (Single)   My Favorite Things   My Life   My Life Interlude   My Love   My Loving   Natural Woman   Natural Woman, (You Make Me Feel Like A)   Need Someone   Never Been   Never Been (Al B. Rich Remix)   Never Too Much   Next Level   Next Level   No Condition   No Happy Holidays   No More Drama   No More Drama Featuring P. Diddy [P. Diddy/Mario ...   No More Drama (Remix)   No More Drama (Thunderpuss Remix)   No More Trouble (Remix)   No More Trouble (Remix)"(feat. Mobb Deep   No More Trouble Remix   No One Else   No One Will Do   No Where Fast   Nobody But You   Noche De Paz (Silent Night)   Not Goin' Cry   Not Gon' Cry   Not Gonna Cry   Not Lookin   Not Lookin'   Not Lookin'"(feat. K-Ci Hailey   Not Loving You   Not Today   Nothing On Me   Now or Never [Bonus Track]   Nowhere Fast   One   One (Feat. U2)   One Life   One Mary J. Blige   Ooh!   Our Love   Out My Head   Out My Head [*]   Overjoyed   Petit Papa Noël   Pick Me Up   Players In The House   PMS   PMS (in album No More Drama)   Press On   Propose   Rainy Days   Rainy Days (feat. Ja Rule)   Rainy Days Featuring Ja Rule   Rainy Dayz   Rainy Dayz (Thunderpuss Remix)   Rainy Dayz [Album Version]   Rainy Dayz [Gb]   Rainy Dayz Remix   Real Love   Real Love"(feat. Notorious B.I.G. & Puffy   Reflections (I Remember)   Reflections (I Remember) [New Mix]   Reminisce   Reminisce (Remix)   Reminisce [Live]   Right Now   Roses   Round and Round   Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer   Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer   Runaway Love   Runaway Love   Runaway Love [Edited]   Said & Done   Said And Done   Searching   See That Boy Again   Seven Days   Sexy   Sexy"(feat. Jadakiss   Shake Down   Share My World   Show Love   Show Love (Hidden Track)   Sincerity   Sincerity [Bonus CD Version]   Skycap   Sleep Walkin'   Sleep Walking   Slow Down   Smoke   So Lady   So Lady [*]   Someone To Love Me   Someone to Love Me (Naked)   Someone To Love Me (Naked) (Single)   Someone To Love Me ft. Diddy   Someone To Love Me ft. Diddy (Remix)   Special Part of Me   Stairway To Heaven   Star For Life   Stay   Stay Down   Stay Down [Album Version]   Steal Away   Steal Away (in album No More Drama)   Stronger   Stronger [From More Than a Game]   Suitcase   Summer Madness   Sweet Thang   Sweet Thing   Take Me As I Am   Talk To Me   Tell Me Why   Testimony   Thank You Lord   The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open ...   The First Noel   The First Noel (Duet with The Clark Sisters)   The Living Proof   The Love I Never Had   The One (Single)   The One [Instrumental]   The One [Main]   The Very Best Thing   Therapy   These Worries   This Christmas   This Love Is For You   Til The Morning   Till The Morning   Time   Time (Remix)   Time (Remix)"(feat. Q.S.R. (Quasar)   Tonight   Touch It [Remix]   Ultimate Relationship   Ultimate Relationship (A.M.)   Vegas Nights   Wake Up Call [Mark Ronson Remix][*]   We Got Hood Love (Feat Trey Songz)   We Ride (I See the Future) [Album]   We Ride (I See the Future) [Instrumental]   What About the Baby   What About the Baby   What Child Is This (Feat Andrea Bocelli)   What Love Is   What's The 411?   When We   When You Wish Upon a Star   When You're Gone   Where I've Been   Where I've Been"(feat. Eve   Whole Damn Year   Whole Lotta Love   Why   Why   Willing & Waiting   Winter Wonderland   Work In Progress (Growing Pains)   Work That   Worth My Time   You Bring Me Joy   You Don't Have To Worry   You Gotta Believe   You Know (New Mix)   You Remind Me   You Remind Me [Daddy Hip Hop]   You Want This   Your Child   Your Child (Junior Vasquez Remix)

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