Lyrics To Songs I Relate To (Cause I Really Wanna Do This-)

I'd Rather Be Me - Mean Girls The Musical Cast

Authors Note: The person who sings this song in the musical is Barrett Wilbert Weed

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So your best friend screwed you over,
Acting nice when she not nice
Well, I have some advice,
Cause it's happened to me twice

Here's my secret strategy,
It always works because
The world doesn't end,
It just feels like it does

So raise your right finger,
And solemnly swear,
Whatever they say about me,
I don't care!

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I won't 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 bad!"

And if I eat along from this moment on,
Then that's just what I'll do!
Cause I'd rather be me,
I'd rather be me
I'd rather he me than be with you!

We're supposed to all be ladies,
And be nurturing, and care
Is that really fair?
Boys get to fight, we have to share

Here's the way that that turns out,
We always understand
How to slap someone down with our underhand

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So here's my right finger,
To how girls should behave!
Cause sometimes what's meant to break you,
Makes you brave!

So I will not act all innocent,
I won't fake apologize
Let's just fight, and then make up,
Not tell these lies

Let's call our damage even,
Clean the slate till it's like new
It's a new life for me,
Where I'd rather be me,
I'd rather be me
I'd rather be me than be with you!

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I'll say, "no!" (No!)
I'll say, "Knock it off with your notes, and your rules, and your games!"

And those sycophants who follow you,
I'll remember all their names

And when they drag you down like they inevitably do,
I will not laugh along with them and approve their palace coup, cause that's not me!
(Janis! Janis! Janis! Janis!)

I don't need their good opinions,
I have plenty of options!
Everybody has opinions,
But it doesn't make them true

What's true is being me,
And I'd rather be me,
I'd rather be me than be with you!

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So raise them high,
Cause playing nice and shy is insulting my IQ
(Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)

I'd rather be me! (I'd rather be me!)
I'd rather be me! (I'd rather be me!)
I'd rather be me than be with you! (I'd rather be me!)

I'd rather be me! (I'd rather be me!)
I'd rather be me! (I'd rather be me!)

I'd rather be me than be with you!!!