| Well, I tried to do it your way
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| And I tried to do it right
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| But no matter what I do
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| It seems it’s different every night
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| And I tried to do it their way
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| Tried to play by all their rules
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| But nine times out of ten
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| I’d find I’m meddling with fools
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| There’s a whole lotta people out there
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| Telling me what’s wrong
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| But when it comes right down to it
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| I’ll do what must be done
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| Let me be me, like black is black
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| And you are you
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| Let me be me, stop trying to
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| Change my point of view
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| Let me be free to live my life
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| The way I choose
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| Well, you don’t even talk to me
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| All you do is dictate
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| You never learned to give
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| 'Cause it’s much easier to take
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| You wake up in the morning
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| And you bow to the machine
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| But I won’t worship anything
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| Just because it’s green
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| You can take your
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| Narrow-minded theories and run
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| 'Cause when it comes right down to it
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| I’ll do what must be done
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| Let me be me |