Lyrics to
I Wanna Be Me

This version of I Wanna Be Me was released by Sex Pistols in 1979.

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Turn the page and it’s
The scoop of the century
Dont wanna be L seven I had enough of this
This is brainwash and this is a clue
To the stars who fooled you
Tell me why you can’t explain
You’re only looking for vinyl yeah
Didn’t they fool you they wanna be you

Gimme world war three we can live again
You didn’t fool me but i fooled you
You wanna be me yeah You wanna be me
You wanna be someone yeah ruin someone
Yeah, Didn’t I fool you I ruined you yeah
Didn’t I fool you I sussed you out

I got you in the camera and
I got you in my camera
A secund of your life ruined for life
You wanna ruin me in your magazine
You wanna cover us in the margarine
And now is the time to realize
To have real eyes

Down down down down
And I’ll take you down on the underground
Down in the dark and down in the crypt
Down in the dark where the typewriter fit
Down with your pen and pad ready to kill
To make me ill
Down wanna be someone you wanna be someone
Ruin someone
Make it as someone you wanna be me ruin me
A typewriter god a black and white king
PVC blackboard books black and white
I wanna be me

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About Lyrics and I Wanna Be Me by Sex Pistols

The lyrics to I Wanna Be Me are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Sex Pistols used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to I Wanna Be Me have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Sex Pistols and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to I Wanna Be Me by Sex Pistols. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Wanna Be Me" means the words set to the music of I Wanna Be Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Sex Pistols. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Wanna Be Me and the lyrics to I Wanna Be Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Sex Pistols who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Wanna Be Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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