Description:
I/Me/Myself is a song about Will Wood’s experiences with his gender identity, and is a fairly well-known song within the trans community. The song blew up on TikTok because of a live performance he did, in which he switched out some lyrics and sang this instead: “My pronouns aren’t your business shitlord, I wish I could be a girl, and that way you’d wish you could kick my fucking teeth in”.
Song links:
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music
Full song lyrics:
I’ve been feeling lightheaded
since I lost enough weight to fit back in my skin
Flower petals and feathers tether me to the ground
(pound for pound)
Take my tea for formaldehyde
for my feminine side since the day that I died
While I whittle my bones until I’m brittle, am I pretty now?
For some reason I find myself lost in what you think of me,
and too confused to choose who I should be
and now you’ve got me thinking
I wish I could be a girl,
and that way you’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend
Am I pretty enough to lie to?
I wish I could be a girl,
and that way you’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend
Just little old me in a big, big world
Little old me in a big world
I wish I were a girl
I’ve been feeling lighthearted
since I gained enough weight back to cover, cover, cover my bones
I get dressed up in shadows one leg at a time – we’re so alike
But if the shoe fits, then I won’t try it on
You’ll be walking out early, but the show must go on
No, I know that I’m wrong
but I love how you’re on my side when I cross that line
It’s been a point of contention between myself
and this body that they stuck me in
The privilege of being born to be a man
and now you got me thinking
I wish I could be a girl,
and that way you’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend
Am I pretty enough to lie to?
I wish I could be a girl,
and that way you’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend
Just little old me in a big, big world
Little old me in a big world
I wish
Eating your prosthetic,
meet your anesthetic criteria
Pathetic seeing you become acetic
Say my name like a slur, but I’ve been called worse
And I’ve heard it all before, no this isn’t a first
Let me be the void you fill with taxidermy fingerprints,
taxonomize our differences
I am quantum physics,
my witness brings me into existence
I wish I could be a girl,
and that way you’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend
Am I pretty enough to love back?
No, not yet
I wish I could be a girl,
and really I’d prefer it if you would use I/Me/Myself
Am I pretty enough?
Am I pretty enough to f*cking die?
Little old me in a big world
Well, I would give you my whole world
Little old me in a big world
I wish
(All identities are equally invalid)
(Don’t you think that there’s a chance that you could live without it?)
(All identities are equally invalid)
(Don’t you think that there’s a chance that you could live without it?)
(All identities are equally invalid)
(Don’t you think that there’s a chance that you could live without it?)
(All identities are equally invalid)
(Don’t you think that there’s a chance that you-)
