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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Please don't mistake
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me or try to make me
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D 
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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
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Oh, society's goal is to
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be part of the whole
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That may sound good to you, not to me
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Verse 2

Let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of you

I am what I am and that's all I

ever can be

Verse 3
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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
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which I'm tryin' to heed
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I can't take hand-me-down destiny
destiny

Verse 4

destiny

Verse 5
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Let me be, let me be,
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To think like I want to
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Let me be, let me be
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D 
That's all I ask of you
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I am what I am and that's all I  ever
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can be
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D 

Verse 6
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Don't try to change me
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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
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to your moves each day
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And I'm not a pawn to be
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told how to move
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I'm sorry I'm not the fool you
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thought would play by your rules
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But to-each-his-own philosophy
philosophy
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philosophy philosophy

Verse 7
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Let me be, let me be,
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To think like I want to
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Let me be, let me be
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That's all I ask of you
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I am what I am and that's
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Bm 
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all I   ever can be