Personality Crisis Lyrics

Lyric discussion by daveyduck 

Cover art for Personality Crisis lyrics by New York Dolls

If you have ever gone out one night - gotten wasted and ended up having a conversation with someone and feeling passionate about something which you know little about or normally don't care about - then you should be able to identify with these lyrics! There are plenty of layers to this song's great lyrics. It's about someone suffering from Fregoli delusion (look it up). Also touches on being absorbed in current events and pop culture to an unhealthy extent where the subject can no longer tell if their thoughts and ambitions are really their own anymore. It's suggesting that culture as a whole is controlling you and making you miserable. A layer of guilt exists in the lyrics as well, of the subject doubting, being unhappy, and or not identifying with their past actions.