Let Me Be:The Turtles.
#29 in 1965.
INTRO: D A D E(x2)
#1.
D E D E
Please don't mistake me, or try to make me,
D E A D A
the shadow of anybody else.
D E D E
I ain't the him or her you think I am,
D E A
I'm just trying hard to be myself.
E A
Though, society's goal is to be part of the whole,
D E E7
that may sound good to you, not to me.
A D E
Let me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
A D E
Let me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
D C#m Bm D A D E
I am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.
#2.
D E D E
Don't try to plan me or understand me,
D E A D A
I can't stand to be understood.
D E D E
I could never give in to, or ever live up to,
D E A
being like you think I should.
E A
I've got some inner need which I'm tryin' to heed,
D E E7
I can't take hand-me-down destiny.
A D E
Let me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
A D E
Let me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
D C#m Bm D A D E
I am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.
#3.
D E D E
Don't try to change me or rearrange me,
D E A D A
to satisfy the selfishness of you.
D E D E
I'm not a piece of clay, to mold to your moves, each day..
D E A
and I'm not a pawn to be told how to move.
E A
I'm sorry I'm not the fool you thought would play
D E E7
by your rules...a 'to-each-his-own' philosophy.
A D E
Let me be, let me be..to think like I want to.
A D E
Let me be, let me be..that's all I ask of you.
D C#m Bm D A D E
I am what I am and that's all, I ever can be.
OUTRO:
D E A
I said, that's all I ever can be.
D E A
I said, that's all I ever can be.
D E A
I said, that's all I ever can be.(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.