Lying idle in my room, telling my thoughts to the moon:
Why do I always feel so unimportant?
To other egos my mind clings and inside these voices ring
That I'm just a carbon copy of everyone else

And now I'm searching out my own identity
Something down inside telling me that I'm like no one else but me
But as of yet I still don't know
Who is this guy that I am and for his life what does he have to show?
Who am I?
What am I for?

I wait for answers from the sky, the only audience I find
But no comfort finds my ears just silent mocking
And I know I was created but I just can't figure out why

And now I'm searching out my own identity
Something down inside telling me that I'm like no one else but me
But as of yet I still don't know
Who is this guy that I am and for his life what does he have to show?
Who am I?
What am I for?

Still searching. Who am I?
Some answers I don't ever find
I just want to know I have a place
Come from and return to dust,
But I don't want to feel that useless
I want to see something in me that is unique.
I just want to know. Who am I?
What am I for?






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Who Am I? Lyrics as written by Paddy Byrne Karen Ann Poole

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    Isn't this song by NOFX & Lagwagon, and Craig's brother is part of the name?

    walking-catastropheon February 09, 2002   Link
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    i don't think so. This song is off of Craig's Brothers first LP called 'Homecoming', it's a great cd, buy it! However i think NOFX and/or Lawagon did a decent cover of this song.

    aniotaon February 09, 2002   Link
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    This song writer is stuggling with his identidy as a human being. He does not want to take the Naturalist worldveiw that says that he is a pile of chemicals like everyone else with no purpose in life (the resolt of the idea that there is no spiritual world only a physical world). He wants to blieve that there is meaning and he is unique. The Christian faith/worldview provides this.

    hennessee101on May 18, 2002   Link
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    i feel the same way cause ive been pushed around my whole life. god i wish i could find an answer.

    lifesgreaton May 25, 2002   Link
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    i didn't nofx/lagwagon actually covered this. are you sure?

    massaaron July 26, 2002   Link
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    Craig's Brother are lyrically superb.

    da77ynon September 22, 2002   Link
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    i don't think they really covered it, i think it's just a wrong name on those download programs. any version you download will probably sound almost exactly like this version, minus quality differences. my 2 pesos: i think this song is simply about him not feeling excepted, and looking to god for an answer, or a reason as to why he was created. he's trying to find a reason to live, or perhaps his use in life.

    darkLIGHT313on March 18, 2003   Link
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    well, Craig's Brother ARE Lagwagon + NOFX, dudes

    x3non April 01, 2003   Link
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    welll, try no their singer jsut sound similar to lagwagon the band has neither members of nofx or lagwagon in it its jsut because stupid peopel title it that on kazaa or back in the day on napster i mean if you were smart you could research it from their official website

    blihndon April 01, 2003   Link
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    well actually craigs brother has neither lagwagon or nofx memebers in it thats is cause by bad labeling on kazaa no lagwagon and nofx did not cover it either its because the singer sounds similiar to lagwagons and people just assume go find their official website and find out the truth

    blihndon April 01, 2003   Link

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