[00:07.882]Please don't mistake me or try to make me
[00:11.460]The shadow of anybody else
[00:15.116]I ain't the him or her you think I am
[00:18.727]I'm just trying hard to be myself
[00:22.383]Oh, society's goal is to be part of the whole
[00:25.848]That may sound good to you, not to me
[00:30.795]
[00:31.577]Let me be, let me be
[00:33.564]To think like I want to
[00:35.203]Let me be, let me be
[00:37.071]That's all I ask of you
[00:39.166]I am what I am
[00:40.515]And that's all I ever can be
[00:44.880]
[00:50.153]Don't try to plan me or understand me
[00:54.037]I can't stand to be understood
[00:57.413]I could never give in to or ever live up to
[01:01.151]Being like you think I should
[01:04.424]I've got some inner need which
[01:06.653]I'm tryin' to heed
[01:08.080]I can't take hand-me-down destiny
[01:13.508]
[01:13.824]Let me be, let me be,
[01:15.762]To think like I want to
[01:17.554]Let me be, let me be
[01:19.387]That's all I ask of you
[01:21.373]I am what I am
[01:22.579]And that's all I ever can be
[01:27.202]
[01:32.438]Don't try to change me or rearrange me
[01:35.875]To satisfy the selfishness of you
[01:39.697]I'm not a piece of clay to mold to your moves each day
[01:43.504]And I'm not a pawn to be told how to move
[01:46.989]I'm sorry
[01:47.639]I'm not the fool you thought would play by your rules
[01:50.585]But to-each-his-own philosophy
[01:55.837]
[01:56.235]Let me be, let me be,
[01:58.236]To think like I want to
[01:59.823]Let me be, let me be
[02:01.796]That's all I ask of you
[02:03.639]I am what I am
[02:05.169]And that's all I ever can be
[02:09.122]I said that's all I ever can be
[02:12.295]I said that's all I ever can be
[02:16.076]I said that's all I ever can be