Hang on to Your Id
Hang on to Your Identity: A Anthem of Defiance and Independence
Lyrics
The circus freaks and malcontents
The outcasts and unconventional individuals
The Trotskyists and the troubadours that I call friends
People who challenge norms, artists, and activists who are considered friends
With sleight of hand or
Through skillful manipulation or reserved communication
With tender reticence
Through gentle and hesitant behavior
Declare their independence
Assert their freedom and independence
If the minute you're born
From the moment of birth
Till the day that you die
Until death
Feels like one long, unbroken road
Feels like an uninterrupted path
Of compromise
A life filled with concessions
Well there's a detour from this grey path you're on
There's a way to diverge from this monotonous path
You've just got to hang on
Persevere and resist conformity
While the city slips to sleep so sound, so sound
When the city falls into a deep sleep
All the pretty hipsters pull you down, down, down,
Trendy and fashionable people try to bring you down
Say, "there's another shade to paint this town"
Suggesting there are alternative ways to approach life
Paint this town or burn it down
Either change the city or destroy it
The hearts on sleeves
Emotions are openly expressed
And friends on floors
Friends stay over at each other's places
Like casualties make it hard to believe
But the losses suffered make it difficult to believe in the end of conflict
In the end of the war
Despite difficulties, peace might seem unexciting
But if a dull peace makes you happy kid
If finding peace in monotony brings happiness
You'll be the first one that it ever did
You would be among the rare few to find it so
So don't let go, no, just hang on to your Id
Hold on to your instinctual desires and identity
Jump off and hang on
Take a leap of faith and hold on to your true self
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