I Was Born This Way

I'm walking through life in nature's disguise (yeah)
You laugh at me and you criticize (yeah-h)

'Cause I'm happy, carefree and gay
(Yes, I'm gay)
Ain't no fault - it's a fact
I was born this way (yeah)

Now I won't judge you - don't you judge me
We're all the way nature meant us to be

I'm happy, I'm carefree, And I'm gay
I was born this way
I'm happy, I'm carefree, And I'm gay
I was born this way (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'm happy, I'm carefree, And I'm gay
I was born this way
I'm happy, I'm carefree, And I'm gay (ay-ay)
(Yeah)

You call me strange 'cause you don't understand (no)
God's role for me in life's overall plan (yeah)
I've learned to hold my head up high
Not in scorn nor disgrace
Doin' my thing individually
Entwined with this human race

Now I won't judge you (hey) don't you judge me
We're all the way nature meant us to be

I'm happy, I'm carefree, And I'm gay
I was born this way

I'm happy, I'm carefree, And I'm gay
I was born this way

[Refrain now sung by background vocals]

And I'm gay
I was born this way

(Yeah)
(Yeah)
I got to tell the world about it yeah
I was born this way

I feel good
I feel good yeah yeah
Ah-ah-ahh

From a little bitty bitty boy
I was born this way

[?]
Change, change hey hey
I was born this way

I feel good
I feel good

You may not understand
How I was born this way

I want the world to know
I'm just an ordinary [?] yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I was born this way

Yeah
Tell the world
I was born this way

[?]

Help me, Lord
Tell the world I was born this way

[Instrumental]

You laugh at me and you got the nerve to criticize
If I were you I'd sit down
And consider what you're doin'
Love me and I love you
And together ain't no tellin' what we'll do
Yeah - born I said
I was born this way
From a little bitty bitty boy
From a little bitty bitty boy
I was born this way

I love you, I love you
And even you - born this way - yeah
I'm tellin' y'all one more time
I was born this way

Proud to tell it, proud to tell it
(Yeah)
I was born this way
Proud to tell it, proud to tell it
(Yeah)
I was born this way
Gonna shout it, tell the world about it
(Hey yay!)