Let Me Be (feat. The Mamas & The Papas)

Please don't mistake me or try to make me

A shadow of anybody else

I'm not the him or her you think I am

I'm just tryin' hard to be myself

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

It may sound good to you, not to me

Ah, let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of ya

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

Don't try to plan me or understand me

I can't stand to be understood

I can never live up to or ever give in to

Bein' like you think I should

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

I can't take hand-me-down destiny

Ah, let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of ya

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

Don't try to change me or rearrange me

To satisfy the selfishness in you

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

And I'm not a pawn to be told how to move

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

But to each his own philosophy

Ah, let me be, let me be

To think like I want to

Let me be, let me be

That's all I ask of ya

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

I said that's all I ever can be

Yeah, that's all I ever can be

I said that's all I ever can be

Yeah, that's all I ever can be