Lyrics for Let Me Be Myself as interpreted by Emerald_Latias

Let Me Be Myself Lyrics
I guess I just got lost,
Being someone else,
I tried to kill the pain,
But nothing ever helps,
I left myself behind,
Somewhere along the way,
Hoping to come back around to find myself someday.

But lately I'm so tired of waiting for you,
To say that it's okay,
Tell me please,
Would you one time,
Let me be myself so I can shine,
With my own light,
And let me be myself.

Would you let me be myself?
Cause I'll never find my heart,
Behind someone else,
I'll never see the light of day,
Living in this cell,
It's time to make my way,
Into the world I knew,
And then take back all these times that I gave into you.

But lately I'm so tired of waiting for you,
To say that it's okay,
And tell me please,
Would you one time,
Let me be myself so I can shine,
With my own light,
And let me be myself for awhile,
If you don't mind,
Let me be myself so I can shine,
With my own light,
And let me be myself.

That's all I've ever wanted from this world,
Is to let me be me.

Please, would you one time,
Let me be myself so I can shine,
With my own light,
Let me be myself.

Please, would you one time,
Let me be myself so I can shine,
With my own light,
And let me be myself for awhile,
If you don't mind,
Let me be myself so I can shine,
With my own light,
And let me be myself,
Would you one time,
Oooh, let me be myself,
Let me be me.

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Chaosdave
05-16-2008

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Wonderful song! All i can say:Would you one time,
Let me be myself so I can shine,
With my own light,

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Ramøn
05-19-2008

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wonderful album, it worth the wait. Monster ballads and great rock songs... I can't wait for tomorrow to have this cd

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Ramøn
05-19-2008

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wonderful album, it worth the wait. Monster ballads and great rock songs... I can't wait for tomorrow to have this cd

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dkyle_06
05-19-2008

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I got the cd today. This is a very good song.

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dkyle_06
05-19-2008

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I got the cd today. This is a very good song.

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soccerstar19
05-20-2008

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this is a great song pretty straight forward meaning of the song he want to be himself he doesn't want to change for anything or anyone

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bassisr10486
05-22-2008

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This indeed is a great song but you have to put it into perspective. After listening to it once, I loved it. Listening to it 20 times I realized that its more than just some not wanting to change. He has been someone for everyone but himself in relationships. He hides from it and tries to cope with the fact that he isn't the person that he has always been. This song can be set into many perspectives. Maybe he became a person that he really isn't to impress someone. Maybe he is with someone that is overpowering him and won't let him engage in the happiness of his own life and making him become a person that is emotionally deprived from the passions of life. In my perspective... He is with someone that he isn't himself with. There are alot of emotions, but not the right ones. He's tired of waiting for someone to let someone say "Be yourself, if you're not happy, be with someone that you are yourself with." If you are with someone that you're not happy with, don't connect with, don't communicate with, you can't be happy. How can you be yourself if you're not happy?

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xSakura
05-31-2008

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bassisr10486, I totally agree with you, but I see the song in a totally different perspective.
I think it's because I've experienced many times where I've felt like certain people are wanting me to be someone different because of the way I am as a person. So to me, this song is about not changing for anyone, not matter what they tell you.
I don't think I've ever been able to relate to a song so well. It's amazing.

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PyarForever
06-01-2008

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Another moving song off a moving album. It's about a man being in a relationship with the girl who means the world to him, but it seems as if it was all a facade. He puts everything he can into it too make her happy and in the process he loses himself in her ways. He doesn't know who he is anymore and forgot how to breathe on his own. He's pleading with her to just let him free and let him shine and show that he is an amazing person. He still loves her but its not worth losing yourself in the process to save her

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iwannashine.
09-09-2008

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i see it has all you do.
but i have many family issues where
i am downed if i am myself and do wat
i want to do. and the first time i heard it
i thought wat an amazing song and it
reminded me of my life of how things are
and how i wish for one minute that i could just be myself for awhile. and let me shine in my
own light not only just walking in everyone elses shadow. this song is perfect.

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dundane
10-03-2008

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The title pretty much says it all. It's about someone who feels oppressed by someone. Whether that is someone is a spouse, family member, or society in general, they have conformed to other's standards and haven't been happy about it the whole time. They have their own goals, aspirations, dreams, but the other person/group threaten them or shun them if they were to be themself.

This song is very personal to me. I have grown up all my life knowing that I wanted to join the army and serve my country. You know, do ROTC, go in as an officer, and serve my 20 years, then retire. Well, I am married now with a little girl. I'm in college, but besides the army, I can't really see myself doing anything else. I feel like it's where God has planned for me to be. Anyways, before this gets into a big religious thing, I'll go on. My wife totally disagrees with me joining the army. She gripes about how I may be deployed and everything. Her plans for me are to get some job sitting in a cubicle all day, but that's not for me. I wanna serve and help others, not sit in an office all day; that's just not me. She threatened to leave me if I said anything else about joining, and was to the point where she almost went to the courthouse to get the papers. So even though that's what I feel like I'm suppose to do and would be happy doing, I can't do it. I'm forced to live her life, not mine.

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aristuma21
10-20-2008

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god one of the best songs i've ever heard...
awesome album too..
love ittt!!

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mrwonderr
11-05-2008

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I feel you, dundane. I'm stuck in a similar situation, except with my mother (I'm still a wee kid).

I really want to go into something with computers. Whether it's software programming, design, or game development, I love computers. But my mom wants me to do Pharmacy. Phooey. I don't want to have a well paying, easy, monotonous job. I want a job that I'll enjoy. I don't care if I'm paid little money. But I can't do what I want. She's living my life and not giving me another option. I'm stuck doing a million things I don't want to do, and I hate it.

This song reflects my present thought. I'm stuck on with expectations and standards that I have to meet, that I'm so welled up inside. I just want to do my own thing.

Sorry for adding yet another rant to the emo abyss known as Songmeanings. Even if none of you read this or care about it, it makes me feel better when I write this out. Strangely, not knowing any of you helps me. So thanks, strangers, and I apologize.

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redallen32
05-24-2009

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To me this song is just about having enough of what people want you to be and living your own dreams and no one else's. I can relate to this song and it is a great song.

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sapphireskies
07-06-2009

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Okay, so I'll admit I was intrigued by the geico commercials and checked out the lyrics b/c I'm obsessed with lyrics. However, having read them, I'm now hell-bent on getting the CD just so I can hear the entire song. I love these lyrics!!

I guess I just got lost,
Being someone else,
I tried to kill the pain,
But nothing ever helps,
I left myself behind,
Somewhere along the way,
Hoping to come back around to find myself someday.
PURE POETRY. I'm in love.

Side note:
This website was invented so we could all share our "rants to the emo abyss known as Songmeanings." I've done the same thing and I'm not ashamed. Always remember, even if there's no comments about your comment, someone has read it, and it helped someone. I promise.

Even if it kills me, I'm gonna smile.
♥ Linds

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MusicIsMySoulfire
07-12-2009

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Ohk, so I am purely obsessed with lyrics...espeically this song! They are so strong and so true! You can't let people hold you back or tell you how to live your life. Only you can be you, and only you can decide your life. I write songs. I write stories. I read...I adore everything about literature and words and writing and the freedom you get! As long as I write, I'll be happy. I don't care if I get paid $8 an hour and work 30 hours a week, I'd rather be happy. My mom wants me to become a proffessor or a doctor. Not what I want, so I won't do it.

This whole song is insanely inspirational and when I hear it, my spirit lifts 100 times and more. Exceptional work 3 Doors Down!

And remember:
It's Only Ever You Who Can Do the Things You Do
So Take the Chance Everyone Tells You Not To
And Live Your Life For YOU!

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Belarmino1
10-13-2009

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Okay, First off, The Geico Commercial=Amazing. Haha, I've relived that on youtube over, and over, and over again and even reenacted it several times myself as well.

I listened to this song long before they started coming on the radio, and it became so popular...

And I think the lyrics basically speak for themselves.
It's about a guy discovering himself, and realizing that he'd lost himself, and maybe hurt someone, in trying to fit in with the crowd, and becoming what everyone else wanted him to be. This is my 'Stay strong' song. It reminds me not to get caught up trying to be popular and to make friends with people who are like me, Not who want me to be like them. (3 doors down is one of the best bands I know.)

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