Peace ~ the lyrics you gave us are very similar to what I had just found, and seem to fit the same scansion and thus probably the same melody as the Byrds song I remember ~ perhaps from the "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album, perhaps another LP.

Are they as sung by TMTCH? Or as sung by the Byrds? (I don't claim to remember the lyrics the Byrds used; I never memorized them to sing the song myself. Indeed, I don't even remember for sure which "edition" or personnel lineup of the Byrds it was who did this.)

Maybe it is TMTHC, because the final line uses the phrase supplied by the OP "I was never born to follow" rather than "wasn't."

I never would have guessed that this was a Goffin/King song, and still have my doubts. So many internet lyrics sites erroneiously credit songs to performers, not to writers. I was persuaded to believe this one only because they included Gerry Goffin's name along with (performer) Carole King's.