Let Me Be - The Turtles

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

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 tryin' to heed

I can’t take hand-me-down destiny