i am what i am chords by
Jim Croce
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Key: C major•
Verse 1
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Perhaps I'll never show this
world all I could be
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I just can't sing to any man
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the song he wants to hear
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And I know that some won't like me
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Am
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Others try to be my friend
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But I'm all of me, and that's all that I am
Verse 2
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And if life is for the living
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Then why can't men be real
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'Stead of hidin' in their costumes
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Forgettin' how to feel,
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forgettin' how to feel
Verse 3
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We still live in a time when manners
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cover what is real
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There's a ba sic fact of life that
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the times cannot conceal
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That if some are masqueraders
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Others live in their facade
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But I'm what I am
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I cannot be what I am not
Verse 4
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And if life is for the living
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Then why can't men be real
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'Stead of hidin' in their costumes
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Forgettin' how to feel,
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forgettin' how to feel
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Verse 5
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I may be too honest and
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offend those who pretend
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I don't claim I'm always right,
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that I'm ev'rybody's friend
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Perhaps for them it's easier
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to be what they are not
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But I'm what I am,
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and I just can't play that part
Verse 6
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And if life is for the living
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Then why can't men be real
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'Stead of hidin' in their costumes
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Forgettin' how to feel,
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forgettin' how to feel
Outro 1
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