IF YOU CAN HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS… WHO IS LISTENING?
The Shamanic Scream
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IF YOU CAN HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS… WHO IS LISTENING?
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If you can hear your thoughts… who is listening?
“I Am Not Me” descends into one of the most disturbing questions the mind can face: if I am not the voice inside my head, then what am I? A drop? The ocean? A temporary boundary drawn around something without edges?
But this song refuses to turn awakening into disappearance. If this life is an experience consciousness chose to enter, then let me live it completely. Let me love with these hands, grieve with this heart and carry this name until my time inside it ends. If I am everything, let me be me while I am here.
LYRICS:
[Intro]
If I can hear my thoughts…
who is listening?
If I can watch myself…
who is watching?
[Verse 1]
A voice appeared inside my head
And wore my name as its disguise
It spoke of everything I feared
And showed the world through borrowed eyes
I watched the thought before it died
Another rose where it had been
If I can see the voice arrive,
Then I cannot be the voice within
[Pre-Chorus]
Take away the name they gave me
Take the memories I defend
If every answer is another thought,
Where do I begin?
Where do I end?
[Chorus]
I am not me
I am not the voice that speaks
I am not the fear I follow
Or the answer that I seek
I am not me
But something watches silently
If I am not the thought I’m thinking,
What the hell is thinking me?
[Verse 2]
I found a drop upon my hand
It trembled like a world alone
Then fell into the open sea
And lost the borders it had known
Was it erased beneath the waves,
Or did it learn what it had been?
A piece of something without edges,
An ocean wearing separate skin
[Pre-Chorus]
If I am only one reflection
Why can I feel the endless sea?
And if the ocean made this body,
Why did it choose to wake as me?
[Chorus]
I am not me
I am not the voice that speaks
I am not the fear I follow
Or the answer that I seek
I am not me
But something watches silently
If I am not the thought I’m thinking,
What the hell is thinking me?
[Bridge]
Maybe I am the drop.
Maybe I am the ocean.
Maybe I made this separation
just to feel the moment.
Maybe I built these walls,
this name,
this skin,
this fragile point of view—
Not as a prison to escape,
but as a life to travel through.
If I am everything,
do not erase me.
If I created this experience,
then let me live it.
Let me love with these hands.
Let me grieve with this heart.
Let me carry this name
until my time inside it ends.
[Verse 3]
I do not need to leave the dream
To know the dream is carrying me
I do not need to kill the self
To touch the roots of unity
This body is not proof of exile,
This single life is not a lie
The ocean chose to form a drop
So it could look through these two eyes
[Final Chorus]
I am not only what I see
I may be ocean, drop and sea
But I chose this breath,
this name,
this skin—
Let me be me while I am here
I am not only what I think
I am the one who chose to sink
Into this life, completely free—
If I am everything,
let me be me
[Final Chorus]
I am not only what I see
I may be ocean, drop and sea
But I chose this breath,
this name,
this skin—
Let me be me while I am here
I am not only what I think
I stand upon the endless brink
I came to live, not disappear—
Let me be me
while I am here
[Outro]
If I am everything…
let me be me.
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