Let Me Be

Please don't mistake me or try to make me

The shadow of anybody else

I'm not the him or who you think I am

I'm just trying hard to be myself

Yeah, society's goal is to be part of the whole

It may sound good to you, not to me

Let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of you

I am what I am and that's all I ever can be

Don't try to plan me or understand me

I can't stand to be understood

I could never live up to or ever give in to

Being like you think I should

I've got some inner need that I'm tryin' to heed

I can't take hand-me-down destiny

Let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of you

I am what I am and that's all I ever can be

Don't try to change me or rearrange me

To satisfy the selfishness in you

I'm not a piece of clay to mold your needs each day

And I'm not a pawn to be told how to move

I'm sorry I'm not the fool you thought would play by your rules

But to-each-his-own philosophy

Let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of you

I am what I am and that's all I ever can be

I said that's all I ever can be

Yeah that's all I ever can be

I said that's all I ever can be

Yeah that's all I ever can be

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