| I’ve been obnoxious, I’ve been unconscious,
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| I’ve been all kind of things that are hard to spell.
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| I’ve been unruly, speaking truly,
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| I’ve been so cool I couldn’t hardly even stand myself.
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| I’ve been a monster, without a sponsor,
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| I’ve been Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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| I’ve been a goner, I’ve been a loner,
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| And when my mixture was right,
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| I’m a nice bunch of guys.
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| I am what I am cause I ain’t what I used to be.
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| 'Cause it is what it is but it ain’t what it used to be.
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| I’ve been a mover, I was a shaker,
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| He had a girlfriend, I tried to snake her.
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| I been mysterious, I been delirious,
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| I been so weird it woulda killed a normal man.
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| I wanted money, I wanted power,
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| I want a monument kinda like the Eiffel Tower.
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| I been lost at sea, I been lost in space,
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| And when I fall in love I fall all over the place.
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| I am what I am cause I ain’t what I used to be. |
| (oooh, yeah)
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| Cause it is what it is but it ain’t what it used to be.
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| Spoken: Well, tell 'em about it
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| And you can go on forever and make the same mistakes,
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| Or you can stand up on your hind legs and change your fate.
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| Go on and do it till you finally see,
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| What it is that it was that you don’t want to be.
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| Spoken: Walking tall, hoo!
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| I was an outlaw, I was an in-law,
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| I was a scapegoat, that was the last straw.
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| I hit the highway, singin' my way,
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| But it wound up sounding like 'you'll never walk alone'.
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| I got a story, reflected glory,
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| Is the way that I been seeing for most of my life.
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| I heard the laughter, up in the rafters,
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| But I never ever thought that the joke was on me.
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| I am what I am cause I ain’t what I used to be. |
| (Spoken: well, maybe just a
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| little.)
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| Cause it is what it is but it ain’t what it used to be.
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| Yeah, I am what I am cause I ain’t what I used to be.
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| Cause it is what it is but it ain’t what it used to be. |