Let Me Be:The Turtles.
#29 in 1965.
INTRO: E(x2)
#1.
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.
Though, society's goal is to be part of the whole,
that may sound good to you, not to me.
CHORUS:
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.
#2.
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 tryin' to heed,
I can't take hand-me-down destiny.
CHORUS:
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.
#3.
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...a 'to-each-his-own' philosophy.
CHORUS:
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.
OUTRO:
I said, that's all I ever can be.
I said, that's all I ever can be.
I said, that's all I ever can be.(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.