Let me be

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1. Please don't mistake me, or try to make me

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the shadow of anybody else.

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I ain't the him or her you think I am,

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I'm just trying hard to be myself.

E A

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

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that may sound good to you, not to me !

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Let me be, let me be, to think like I want to,

A D E

let me be, let me be, that's all I ask of you.

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

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D E D E

2. Don't try to plan me or understand me,

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I can't stand to be understood.

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I could never give in to or ever live up to

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being like you think I should.

E A

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

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I can't take hand-me-down destiny.

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3. Don't try to change me or rearrange me,

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to satisfy the selfishness in you.

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

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and I'm not a pawn to be told how to move.

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

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a to-each-his-own philosophy.

A D E

Let me be, let me be, to think like I want to,

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let me be, let me be, that's all I ask of you.

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

D E A

I said that's all I ever can be.

D E A

I said that's all I ever can be……

(The Turtles)