Be Yourself

Be Yourself

by Ellen Bailey

Why would you want to be someone else

When you could be better by being yourself

Why pretend to be someone you are not

When you have something they haven't got

Cheating yourself of the life you have to live

Deprives others of that only which you can give

You have much more to offer by being just you

Than walking around in someone else's shoes

Trying to live the life of another is a mistake

It is a masquerade; nothing more than a fake

Be yourself and let your qualities show through

Others will love you more for being just you  

Remember that God loves you just as you are

To Him you are already a bright shining star

Family and friends will love you more too

If you spent time practicing just being you

Be Yourself

Paul Adolphus

Don't try to be me 

and I won't try to be you

there is only one of me

and there is only one of you

Don't go around pretending to be

somebody that you are not

there real you is who you should

let people see

and not what you've got

You don't need to put on a false identity

trying to look and act like a celebrity

you are who you are with your own personality

that's the way it so just deal with reality

Looking up to someone is nothing wrong

but when you try to become that someone

that's where you don't belong

just be yourself and play it cool

why pretend and make yourself look like a fool? 

I won't try to be you

so don't try to be me

if others can't accept they way you are

then just let them be