Let Me Be (Raised on Records version)

Please don't mistake me or try to make me
Shadow of anybody else
I'm not the him or her you think I am
Can't you see I'm just myself?
Oh, society's goal is to make you feel part of the whole
It may sound good to some but not to me

I just wanna be, let me be
Think like I want to
Let me be, let me be
That's all I ask of you
How I am and 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 me and you
I'm not a piece of clay to mold to your moods 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 all your rules
But to each his own philosophy

Don't you see
I just want to be, let me be
Think like I want to
Let me be, let me be
That's all I'm asking of you
I am what I am
That's all I ever can be

That's all I ever can be