While I'm Alive

[Chorus]

If I can't be me

Who do you want me to be?

'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze

You don't phase me and I don't trust you anyway

'Cause running through life, I figured out time

Don't wait for no one, so while I'm alive, I'ma just be me

Whoever that ends up being

[Verse 1]

Don't say I'm too loud when I cry out what I've held inside

I wanna know why they tried to take me and bury me alive

'Cause who am I to think that I have a right?

Or decide to know what I need, right?

It's in the way, I talk and walk away

From what you made me

[Chorus]

If I can't be me

Who do you want me to bе?

'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze

You don't phasе me and I don't trust you anyway

'Cause running through life, I figured out time

Don't wait for no one

So while I'm alive, I'ma just be me

Whoever that ends up being

[Verse 2]

And I know this is all too familiar

Feel the motive behind all that fake love

I can't take all these unsolicited opinions

Go ahead and be the scared ones

Either way, I'll get it done

I've been told I'm too much

Too proud, too cruel

Too wild, difficult to be around

With too much to say

Never in the right way

So, what's the right way?

[Chorus]

If I can't be me

Who do you want me to be? (Who do you want me to be?)

'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze

You don't phase me and I don't trust you anyway

'Cause runnin' through life, I figured out time

Don't wait for no one

So while I'm alive, I'ma just be me (I'ma just be me, yeah)

Whoever that ends up being (Yeah)

[Guitar Instrumental]

[Chorus]

If I can't be me

Who do you want me to be? (Who do you want me to be?)

'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze

You don't phase me and I don't trust you anyway

'Cause runnin' through life, I figured out time

Don't wait for no one

So while I'm alive, I'ma just be me (I'ma just be me)

Whoever that ends up being