Cover art for Yesterday by Diddy – Dirty Money
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Yesterday Lyrics

[Intro: Chris Brown]
Yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh-oh

[Chorus: Chris Brown]
Yesterday I fell in love
Today feels like my funeral
I just got hit by a bus, shouldn't have been so beautiful
Don't know why I gave my heart, gave my trust, gave everything
You'd think that if I had the chance
To do it over again
I'd do somethin' different, make better decisions
Save me from my ignorance
But I keep makin' the same mistakes before I
I see the danger, but I go forward
I'm sittin' here tryna keep my composure
Knowin' inside I'm broken and tore up
She got me gone, I'm on her like a drug
I try to go but end up wantin' more
Stuck in my head, vivid as a picture
I wanna be clean, but I can't get rid of her

[Verse 1: Diddy, Chris Brown, Diddy & Chris Brown]
Uh, give my all, you take it from me (From me, girl)
And don't even replace it for me (No)
I wish you'd just fake it for me (Fake it)
I wish I could make you love me more
You can't tell I fucks with you, I needed you
I thought that you understood that based on how I treated you
I don't pay attention to the rumors that you feed into
Know you're missin' somethin', I wish I was what completed you
(Damn, da-da-damn, damn) Damn
[Chorus: Chris Brown]
Yesterday I fell in love
Today feels like my funeral (Yeah)
I just got hit by a bus (Yes), shouldn't have been so beautiful (No)
Don't know why I gave my heart, gave my trust, gave everything
You'd think that if I had the chance
To do it over again
I'd do somethin' different (Yeah), make better decisions
Save me from my ignorance (Yes)
But I keep makin' the same mistakes before I (Ooh)
I see the danger, but I go forward (Woah, woah, woah)
I'm sittin' here tryna keep my composure (Oh)
Knowin' inside I'm broken and tore up
She got me gone, I'm on her like a drug
I try to go but end up wantin' more
Stuck in my head, vivid as a picture
I wanna be clean, but I can't get rid of her

[Verse 2: Diddy, Chris Brown, Diddy & Chris Brown]
Uh, I feel like a killer hit me (Hit me)
The weapon was concealed initially (Oh-oh)
But I felt so much pain from it (Pain)
You deserved to feel it with me more
I feel like I beg with you, I plead with you
I don't comprehend how you can't love when it's so easy to
I thought you could do it, I believed in the naive in you (Oh-oh)
I just need to breathe, baby (Oh, no) now I got the freedom to
[Outro: Chris Brown]
She's like a drug, yeah
And I don't think I can get rid of her (I can't get rid of her)
'Cause she got me in this curse (Yeah)
And then it dawned on me
I can't do nothin' with her (Yeah, yeah)
This woman's worth (No, oh)
I can't find my way out and it hurts (Yeah)
I tried, but she won't let me go (She won't let me go)
She won’t let me go (She won't let me go, oh)
She won't let me go
She won't let me go
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
Yeah
Woah, woah
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah

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Recorded At
Daddy's House Recording Studios (New York City) & Record Plant (Los Angeles)
Release Date
December 14, 2010
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