Tono: D
Introducción:
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#1.
D E D E
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.
#2.
D E D E
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.
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I've got some inner need which I'm tryin' to heed,
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I can't take hand-me-down destiny.
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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.
#3.
D E DE
Don't try to change me or rearrange me,
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to satisfy the selfishness of 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
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by your rules...a 'to-each-his-own' philosophy.
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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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I said, that's all I ever can be.
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I said, that's all I ever can be.
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I said, that's all I ever can be.(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.