How They Want Me to Be

Album: The Only Place (2012)
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  • All of my friends stick up their noses
    Ask me where my money is
    Where does it go once I've spent it?

    But I don't want to be how they want me to be
    I don't want to be how they want me to be
    I don't want to be how they want me to be
    I don't want to be how they want me to be

    Even my own mother asks me a lot of questions
    I tell her I don't wanna talk
    But she doesn't stop, she's just wondering

    But I don't want to be how they want me to be
    I don't want to be how they want me to be
    I don't want to be how they want me to be
    I don't want to be how they want me to be

    I want you, you, you, you
    I want you, you, you, you

    Cause when I wake up in the morning or the middle of the night
    I wonder who's there, and what they've said
    Yeah, when I wake up in the morning or the middle of the night
    I wonder who's there, and what they've said
    But when I wake up in the morning or the middle of the night
    I look at you and I know it's alright
    I wake up in the morning or the middle of the night
    I look at you and I know it's alright

    Cause you don't want me to be
    How they want me to be
    You don't want me to be
    How they want me to be

    And I don't want to be how they want me to be
    I don't want to be how they want me to be
    You don't want me to be how they want me to be
    I don't want me to be how they want me to be Writer/s: BETHANY COSENTINO
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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