I Gotta Be Me

My first grade teacher said that if I wanted to get ahead

I'd have to learn to pay attention

But I never listened to a word she said and I

Always wound up in detention

It wasn't fair

I didn't care

I gotta be me

I never fit into the box

I gotta be me

Mr. Unorthodox

I gotta be me

Always different from the crowd

I gotta be me

Even my whisper comes out loud

I remember working my very first job

I was lifting crates

The boss said "boy, you'll never fit in"

Ha

But he's the one that's stuck there living inside a life he hates

And I'm the one who's really living

It wasn't fair

I didn't care

I gotta be me

I never fit into the box

I gotta be me

Mr. Unorthodox

I gotta be me

Always different from the crowd

I gotta be me

Even my whisper comes out loud

It wasn't fair (woah, woah, woah, woah)

I didn't care

I gotta be me

I never fit into the box

I gotta be me

Mr. Unorthodox

I gotta be me

Always different from the crowd

I gotta be me

Even my whisper comes out loud (whoa now, yeah yeah)

I never fit into the box

I gotta be me

Mr. Unorthodox

I gotta be me

Always different from the crowd

I gotta be me

Even my whisper comes out loud (even my whisper, even my whisper)

I never fit into the box (I never fit into the box)

Mr. Unorthodox

I gotta be me

Always different from the crowd (you know different from the crowd)

I gotta be me