It sounds as though the singer is making the common Thoreau message of "simplify, simplify." A free spirit should be kept sacred above all else, despite society's urge to crush it. After having his spirit violated so, the speaker appears to have lost his identity, as indicated by the final line, "Please tell me who I am." For by allowing others to shape him, he has forgotten who he once was.
It sounds as though the singer is making the common Thoreau message of "simplify, simplify." A free spirit should be kept sacred above all else, despite society's urge to crush it. After having his spirit violated so, the speaker appears to have lost his identity, as indicated by the final line, "Please tell me who I am." For by allowing others to shape him, he has forgotten who he once was.