I Am What I Am (Definitive Mix)

Ensemble: (Prelude, Reprise)

We are what we are

And what we are is an illusion

We love how it feels

Putting on heels causing sonfusion

We face life

Though it's sometimes sweet and sometimes bitter

Face life with a little guts and lots of glitter

Look under our frocks:

Girdles and jocks

Proving We are what...

Albin: No! Get off

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I am what I am

I am my own special creation

So come take a look

Give me the hook or the ovation

It's my world that I want to have a little pride in

My world, and it's not a place I have to hide in

Life's not worth a damn

'Till you can say

"Hey World, I am what I am."

I am what I am

I don't want praise, I dont want pity

I bang my own drum

Some think it's noise I think its pretty

And so what, if I love each sparkle and each bangle

Why not try to see things from a different angle

Your life is a sham

'Till you can shout out loud

I am what I am

I am what I am

And what I am needs no excuses

I deal my own deck

Sometimes the aces, sometimes the deuces

There's one life, and there's no return and no deposit;

One life, so it's time to open up your closet

Life's not worth a damn

'Till you can say

"Hey world, I am what I am."