Identity Crisis

[Pigfarmer Jr]

Identity Crisis
Pigfarmer Jr

First you say
That you want me to come your way
But I can tell
That you want me to go to hell

I don't want to have an identity crisis
I don't want to be the one you always try to blame
I don't want to have an identity crisis
'Cause we are not the same!

I don't know
Which way you want me to go
Do you care?
'Cause I can't find you anywhere

I don't want to have an identity crisis
I don't want to be the one you always try to blame
I don't want to have an identity crisis
'Cause we are not the same!

If you don't know what you want
I can't give it to you
I'm not gonna be your plaything anymore!

I can't see
What you really want me to be
(And) you can't see
What I really need to be

I don't want to have an identity crisis
I don't want to be the one you always try to blame
I don't want to have an identity crisis
'Cause we are not the same!

[j$]

by Johnny Cashpoint
(features a drum sample from Amyl & The Sniffers' 'Doing My Head in')

I should not be left to my own devices
My life is a mess, there's no surprises (crisis!)
All i have got left are dirty vices
I am having an identity crisis(crisis!)

Marie Antoinette would lose her head for a lot less

My damn madness rocks on at its finest
I am acting up in the unkindest (crisis!)
Ways. I'm quite apalled, I'm not the nicest
To be around in an identity crisis (crisis!)

Marie Antoinette would lose her head for a lot less
Least that means she doesn't need to buy a new hair net

Darling you have to believe me
There is no reason to leave me
This is not a story about a shaggy dog,
This is a short tale about my grief and loss

Dont get if I'm now meant to be Marie Antoinette.
My head in the basket, guess that you could not care less.

[tomdg]

Didn't really have any, but ...

Growing up in Kingswood, football was my life. When I wasn’t playing football, I was watching football or talking about football. I never thought I could be anything else. I had no time for school. Then when I got dropped by Rovers, for a long time I didn’t know what I was here for. Luckily I got a job doing the bins, and these guys sorted me out. I suppose you could say the bins saved me.

I ... Who am I?

My dad said when you grow up I hope you grow up to be a man. What does that mean? It used to mean going to work, looking after a family. Making decisions. Showing leadership. You were in charge, and people had to fit around that. You expected the whole world to revolve around you. Is that what it means to be a man? To make the whole world your slaves? What if I don’t want that?

I ... Who am I?

When I was growing up, it was simple. There were boys and there were girls, and the boys liked the girls and the girls liked the boys. I don’t know when things got so complicated – now the boys like the boys and the girls like the girls and there are girls who are boys and boys who are girls and people who are neither. I didn’t know what to make of it at first. But when I listened to their stories, I realised these people had always been there and their identities were just as real as mine. If anything, I think a trans man is more of a man than I am. I never had to do anything to be a man, it all just fell in my lap.

I .... I am I

[V4nnim3l]

Identity Crisis - V4nnim3l

Having an Identity Crisis
not sure who I am anymore
I'll take the time to appreciate my life
up to this point
let's look to the future and see what it holds
if I say who I am to the rest of the world
but in order to do that I need to know
Who am I?

Am I a guy, or am I a girl?
Am I still young, or am I getting old?
Do I go to the parties or just stay at home?
But if there's one thing I know 'bout myself
I play the guitar and I sing kinda well
I'll play a solo just for you

[solo]

So this is my life
Have I lived it well
I'll let you be the judge because I don't know myself
so tell me now, was I good or was I bad
And while you're at it compare my to my friends
and make us all feel bad about ourselves
we don't need to be what you want us to be

Having an identity crisis
not sure why I try to be anything
pretending so long, I forgot what it's like
to be myself
maybe I should go and do some research
in the library of my thoughs
maybe one of the books is called
'Who am I?'

[ken]

Berkeley Social Scene

I wake in darkness, blinking through the haze,
Try to find my shadow hiding in this maze.
I’m all wrapped up in someone else’s skin
Caught a brief reflection of my evil twin

Identity crisis, I’m petrified
Running in circles, I’m lost inside

Echoes inside me, like mysteries in a dream
Lost in translation, I’m caught in between
Even my own name is a puzzle piece to find,
The secret password to my own mind

Layers of confusion, peeling back my skin,
I’m a hollow shadow; I’m a howling wind
Fragments of a story, don’t know who I’ve been
I’m a faint reflection, I’m a fading grin

Identity crisis, I’m petrified
Running in circles, I’m lost inside
Identity crisis, I’m petrified
Running in circles, I’m lost inside