From: “Mean Girls [Musical]”

I'd Rather Be Me
by

JEFF RICHMOND

Lyrics by: NELL BENJAMIN

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 I’D RATHER BE ME
Words by NELL BENJAMIN
Music by JEFF RICHMOND

Driving
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JANIS:

So your

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best friend screwed you o - ver, act - ed nice when she not nice, well, I have some ad - vice, ’cause it

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hap-pened to me. Twice. Here’s my se- cret strat-e - gy. It al-ways works be - cause the

sim.

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world does-n’t end. It just feels like it does. Just raise your right

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fin-ger, and sol - emn - ly swear, “What - ev - er they say a - bout

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me, I don’t care!” I won’t

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twist in knots to join your game, I will say, “You make me mad.” And if you treat me bad, I’ll say you’re

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bad. And if I eat a - lone from this mo-ment on then that’s just what I’ll do, ’cause I’d

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rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me

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than be with you. We’re sup -

sim.

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posed to all be la - dies, and be nur - tur-ing and care. And is it real-ly fair? Boys get to

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fight, we have to share. Here’s the way that that turns out we al - ways un - der - stand. How to

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slap some-one down with our un - der - hand. So here’s my right

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fin - ger to “how girls should be - have.” ’Cause

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some -times what’s meant to break you makes you brave. So I

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will not act all in-no-cent. I won’t fake a-pol-o - gize. Let’s just fight and then make up, not tell these

sim.

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lies. Call our dam-age e - ven. Clean the slate ’til it’s like new. It’s a

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new life for me, where I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me

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than be with you. I’ll say

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“No!” I’ll say, “Knock it off, with your notes and your rules and your games.” And those

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sy - co - phants who fol - low you I’ll re - mem - ber all their names. And when they

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drag you down like they in - ev - i - ta - bly do, I

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will not laugh a - long with them and ap - prove their pal - ace coup, ’cause that’s not

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me. I don’t need their good o - pin - ions, I have

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plen - ty of o-pin - ions ev-’ry ass-hole has o-pin - ions, but it does-n’t make them true. What’s

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true is be-ing me. I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me than

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I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me than

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be with you! So

be with you!

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raise ’em high, ’cause play-ing nice and shy is in - sult - ing my I - Q.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah!

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I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me

I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me, I’d

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than be with you! I’d rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be

rath - er be me, I’d rath - er be me! I’d rath - er be me! I’d

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me, I’d rath - er be me than be with

rath - er be me!

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you!

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