Let Me Be

[Verse 1]

Please don't mistake me or try to make me

A shadow of anybody else

I'm not the him or her you think I am

I'm just tryin' hard to be myself

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

It may sound good to you, not to me

[Chorus]

Ah, let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of ya

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

[Verse 2]

Don't try to plan me or understand me

I can't stand to be understood

I can never live up to or ever give in to

Bein' 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

[Chorus]

Ah, let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of ya

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

[Verse 3]

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

[Chorus]

Ah, let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of ya

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

[Outro]

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