Let Me Be

Let Me Be:The Turtles. #29 in 1965. INTRO: (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. 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. 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. 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.