Placing me in the frame of what's happening
Stripping my memories to never hand them back to me
Breaking away my dreams so rapidly
To change all the times of how you would act for me
And even as I walk over shattered glass to know I made it
The paranoia in your mind slips me back into all I hated
And now my anger can finally realize
Sensing the hatred within your eyes
That your pressuring my soul more than it has to be
To make me into the person you've always been asking me

You want me to act like someone else
(I am who I am)
You never let me find myself
(I am who I am)
But I'm not going to be like them
(I am who I am)
I will not follow you again
(I am who I am)

Using my thoughts to crush me flat again
I'm hearing your stressful words attach to them
Looking past the memories I had and then
You throw me into the flood of the distractions
Because no matter the paths your words have handed
Your voice injects the image that makes me strand it
And now its evolving into a memory so sad to see
When you color me into a person with a maddening

You want me to act like someone else
(I am who I am)
You never let me find myself
(I am who I am)
But I'm not going to be like them
(I am who I am)
I will not follow you again
(I am who I am)
2x

I just want to be me!

I've always been the person you
(Want)
Doing everything that you wanted to
(See)
The time has come where I can finally
(Be)
Just let me go because I
(Want to be me)
2x

You want me to act like someone else
(I am who I am)
You never let me find myself
(I am who I am)
But I'm not going to be like them
(I am who I am)
I will not follow you again
(I am who I am)
2x