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DERECK ROSE: MUSIC

I DON'T WANNA BE

(DERECK ROSE)
THIS IS A SONG ABOUT THOSE LEADERS IN CHARGE WHOSE SUPPOSED TO BE SHEPHERDS AND PROTECTORS OF THEIR FLOCKS, THE PEOPLE THEY LEAD, OR MISLEAD, ANYWAY THEY LEAVE THEM ABANDONED, BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO MUCH INTO THEIR OWN SELFISH LIVES TO CARE, SO THEREFORE I DON'T WANT THEIR LEADERSHIP.
I DON’T WANNA BE PART OF AN INSTITUTION
OR EVEN WRAPPED UP IN CONFUSION
I’M JUST A PLAIN MAN ON A MISSION
I DON’T WANNA BE LIKE NOBODY ELSE.

DON’T WANNA DRESS LIKE THEY DO IN THIS CITY
I DON’T WANNA BE THE CASE OF MIS-INDENTITY
GOTTA BE ME, GOTTA BE FREE YOU SEE
COS’ I DON’T WANNA BE NOBODY ELSE.

CHORUS

SOME MAKE THEIR WILD SPECULATIONS
THEY’RE NOT IN TOUCH WITH MY GENERATION
SOME SHEPHERDS ABANDON THEIR FLOCKS LEFT TO BURN
LEAVE THEM TO BAWL UNTIL THE WOLVES RETURN.

I DON’T WANNA SIGN NO PETITIONS
OR CAUGHT UP IN SOME VAIN REPETITION
DON’T ASK ME TO JOIN YOUR ORGANIZATION COS’ I WON’T
I DON’T WANNA BE LIKE NOBODY ELSE.

WELL, I’M NOT A FRANCISCAN MONK
I DON’T SMOKE SENSI OR SKUNK
AND I SURE AIN’T NO MODERN DAY EUNUCH, NO WAY
COS’ I DON’T WANNA BE LIKE NOBODY ELSE.