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Identity Crisis

from As The Crow Flies by Auntie Establishment

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I wrote this song without a guitar while trying to hitch a ride across the border into Spain. I had been travelling alone for a week or so by this point and for whatever reason it was at this time that the change in lifestyle hit me. I realised that in taking the plunge and changing who I was and how I lived my life I had shed my old identity, leaving me relatively unsure of who I was *now*, all I knew was that I was happier than before. This song is about trying to find your place in a new environment, about breaking free from old habits and the uncertainty of where you stand.

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I'm no longer a drinker, no longer a drunk
Never been much of a thinker and I've never shot junk
Well I gave up on smoking before I'd begun
And I'll die a nowhere man with two healthy lungs
I backed down from the fight before one punch was thrown
A coward in plain sight and a coward alone
Spent a life in the margins as a return-to note
And in my own production had just a recurring role

My friends tell me that I should watch my step
But I've not even learned how to walk yet
When I have I'll cross the valleys deep
But until then I must get to know me

Well I'm hardly a hero, barely a working class man
Drift as close to the zero as one possibly can
Now it seems that my future is back in my hands
But what good is a future if I don't know who I am?

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from As The Crow Flies, released December 30, 2014

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