You can't accept me for who I am

I try so hard to get you to understand

I don't know if I can take this pain anymore

Cause my heart has been torn

What did I do to be treated this way?

You keep beating me down, but I still ask you to stay

And I know that I want to be myself

But you want me to be someone else

It's just the same thing, same thing

How you try to change me, change me

So tell me what you want from me

Why can't you let me be?

I just can't go on taking all this abuse

No matter what I do, it's never enough for you

And I know that I'm disgusted by the way that you think of me

You make me do things that I don't want to do

And you don't give a damn about what you put me through

And I know you need to face the truth that I'm not like you

It's just the same thing, same thing

How you try to change me, change me

So tell me what you want from me

Why can't you let me be?

It's just the same thing, same thing

How you try to change me, change me

So tell me what you want from me

Why can't you let me be?

A'ma do what I wanna do, not what you tell me to

You say you're looking out for me-well, thats a sad excuse!

Drop the attitude because I've been abused

You keep playin with me to see what i do

What do you get out of messin' with me

Because am just tryin to do my own thing

But still you try to take everything I got and it JUST WONT STOP !

So tell me what you wanted from me

Or what's the reason that you won't let me be

I keep telling you again and again

No one can change me because of WHO I AM!!!

It's just the same thing, same thing

How you try to change me, change me

So tell me what you want from me

Why can't you let me be?

It's just the same thing, same thing

How you try to change me, change me

So tell me what you want from me

Why can't you let me be?

Same thing, Same thing