While I'm Alive

If I can't be me Who do you want me to be? 'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze You don't faze me, and I don't trust you anyway It's running through life, I figured out time Don't wait for no one So while I'm alive, I'ma just be me Whoever that ends up bein' Don't say I'm too loud when I cry out What I've held inside I wanna know why they tried to take me and bury me alive 'Cause who am I, to think that I have a right Or decide, to know what I need, right? It's in the way, I talk now, walk away From what you made me If I can't be me Who do you want me to be? 'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze You don't faze me, and I don't trust you anyway It's running through life, I figured out time Don't wait for no one So while I'm alive, I'ma just be me Whoever that ends up bein' And I know this is all too familiar For the motive behind all that fake love I can't take all these unsolicited opinions Go ahead and be the scared ones Either way, I'll get it done I've been told I'm too much Too proud, too cool Too wild, difficult to be around with Too much to say Never in the right way So, what's the right way? If I can't be me Who do you want me to be? (Who do you want me to be?) 'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze You don't faze me, and I don't trust you anyway It's running through life, I figured out time (figured out time) Don't wait for no one So while I'm alive, I'ma just be me (I'ma just be me, yeah) Whoever that ends up bein' (yeah) If I can't be me Who do you want me to be? (Who do you want me to be?) 'Cause if you can't see beyond your gaze You don't faze me, and I don't trust you anyway It's running through life, I figured out time Don't wait for no one So while I'm alive, I'ma just be me (I'ma just be me) Whoever that ends up bein'