I Got To Be Myself

(album: This Time Around - 1981)

I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else
I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else

Can't change my color
Can't change my skin
What you see is what I am, ya'll
It's been like that since my time began

I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else
I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else

(I'm on up[?]) with my life
Let me do, what I think is right
'Cause I got to be myself, lord
I can't be nobody else

I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else
I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else

...Can't be nobody else
I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else
Say it...
I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else
I got to be myself, I can't be nobody else

Let me be myself, ya'll...
I got to be myself, let me be myself
I got to be myself, let me be myself

I got to be myself, let me be myself (Just want to be myself)
I got to be myself, let me be myself (Let me live and die)
I got to be myself, let me be myself (Let me do what I think is right)
I got to be myself, let me be myself (Oh, I wanna be myself)
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