"Let Me Be"

                              
   (P.F. Sloan)



Intro:



	D   A    D6  E		[2X; 12-string enters 2nd time]

	/ / / /  / / / /



Verse 1:



	  D              E      D          E

	Please don't mistake me or try to make me

	      D        E       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

	That may sound good to you, not to me



Chorus:



	       A

	Let me be, let me be

	    D            E

	To think like I want to

	       A

	Let me be, let me be

	        D        E

	That's all I ask of you

	  D                       C#m   Bm     [1,2: repeat intro  3: to coda]

	I am what I am and that's all I ever can be



Verse 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 that I'm tryin' to heed

	I can't take hand-me-down destiny



[repeat chorus]



Verse 3:



	Don't try to change me or rearrange me

	To satisfy the selfishness in 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 ain't the fool you thought would play by your rules

	A to-each-is-own philosophy



[repeat chorus]



Coda:



	    A

	(...be)



	               D     E       A

	I said that's all I ever can be   [repeat to fade]





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