The song reflects Chris Cornells reflections on individuality and self-acceptance, influenced by his personal experiences and observations of the world around him.
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Introduction:
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Someone falls to pieces sleeping all alone, someone kills the pain
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Spinning in the silence, she finally drifts away
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Someone gets excited in a chapel yard, catches a bouquet
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Another lays a dozen white roses on a grave
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And To be yourself is all that you can do Heyyy-eeeey
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To be yourself is all that you can doooooooooooooooooooooo
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Someone finds salvation in everyone, another only pain
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Someone tries to hide himself down inside himself he prays
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Someone swears his true love until the end of time, another runs away
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Separate or united, healthy or insaaaaaaaane
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And To be yourself is all that you can do Heyyy-eeeey
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To be yourself is all that you can doooooooooooooooooooooo
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And To be yourself is all that you can do Heyyy-eeeey
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To be yourself is all that you can doooooooooooooooooooooo
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Even when you've paid enough
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Been put upon or been held up
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with every single memory of
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The good or bad, faces of luck
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don't lose any sleep tonight
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I'm sure everything will end up alright
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You may win or looooooooooooooooooooooooooose
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But to be yourself is all that you can do
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Yeah, to be yourself is all that you can do
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And To be yourself is all that you can do Heyyy-eeeey
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To be yourself is all that you can doooooooooooooooooooooo
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To be yourself is all that you can, be yourself is all that you can
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Be yourself is all that you can doooooooooooooooooooo