Name: Identity
Duration: P00H04M01S
Description: Who are you? Are you the same person all the time? Or do you swap and change according to who you’re with? Do you have facets you’d like to see the back of? Are there versions of you you’d like to get back? Who are you? Who am I? Listen to this intensive, dirty postpunk song with references of 80s industrial and new wave … and maybe find out.

Identity

from Identity [single] by Hallam London

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Who are you? Are you the same person all the time? Or do you swap and change according to who you’re with? Do you have facets you’d like to see the back of? Are there versions of you you’d like to get back? Who are you? Who am I? Listen to this intensive, dirty postpunk song with references of 80s industrial and new wave … and maybe find out.

lyrics

She’s taken my imaginary friend
and I’m upset I think I think.
Things get more complex, it’s a trend
I hope that I can grasp before I sink.

He’s left me for my spirit guide
I now doubt things I know I know
are real. Keep calm. I won’t hide
my disappointment, everybody goes

How can he leave
with the boy who isn’t here?
How can he love the girl who can’t exist
in this or any other world?

He’s run off with two characters I wrote
short stories for so long so long
ago. I think one left me notes
in margins but I may be wrong

I never worked them out anyway.
My other other self has gone
a partial person ought to stay
forever – so I thought, turns out I’m wrong

How can she leave
with the boy who isn’t here?
How can she love the girl who can’t exist
in this or any other world?

Where have they gone? Where am I now?
There is so little of me left to show
and once I would have fought
but these days I am caught

There are more people here than you and me,
though none agree what’s real is real.
There should be someone I can be
to keep the gang together. Seal

all the doors and count my shadows.
There’s more and more of them abscond.
I need to be the one who’s quite
certain where his fragments are tonight

What have they done? What can I do?
They think that I’m imaginary too
and once I would have argued
but recently I’m not so sure

credits

from Identity [single], track released June 30, 2023
music by Hallam London
lyrics by Ian Badcoe

Hallam London: vocals, guitars, bass guitar
Kris Tearse: drums
Dave Sanderson: synths

produced by Dave Sanderson
mixed and mastered by Dave Sanderson

Cover drawing by Floris Hansberg, incorporating Jenn Zed’s album artwork
Cover layout by Hallam London

published by Oh, my music!

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Hallam London Dresden, Germany

PostPunkIndieRock // Performer + Composer // Rock’n’Roll Club + Theatre Stage // queer and pround

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