Standard (EADGBE)

Please don't mistake me, or try to make me

 The shadow of anybody else

I ain't the him or her you think I am

 I'm just trying hard to be myself

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

 That may sound good to you, not to me

 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

Don't try to plan me or understand me

 I can't stand to be understood

I could never give in to or ever live up to

 Being like you think I should

 I've got some inner need which I'm trying to heed

 I can't take hand me down destiny

 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

Don't try to change me or rearrange me

 To satisfy the selfishness of you

I'm not a piece of clay to mold to your moves 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

 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

 I said that's all I ever can be 3x