I Don't Wanna Be Me

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"**I Don't Wanna Be Me**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album *Life Is Killing Me*, released in 2003. This song is about the challenges of changing his appearance in order to attract women. There is ambient outro titled "I'm No More" starting at 3:45 played by low-pitch keyboards and flavored with sound effects like footsteps and the noise of a train passing from a distance.

"I Don't Wanna Be Me" is the only single released from the album *Life Is Killing Me*. There is an official music video for this song. The music video features actor Dan Fogler dressing as many characters, from Marilyn Monroe to Michael Jackson to **Pete** himself.

"I Don't Wanna Be Me" is covered by several other bands, including Trivium, Nemecic, and Modern Mimes. A split album of the same name released in 2018 contains this song and the Trivium version.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "I Don't Wanna Be Me"]**

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

Ever throwing at his home

Two glass houses, twenty stones

Fourteen yellow, six are blue

Could it be worse?.. Quite doubtful.

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

1-2

1-2-3-4.

Two steps forward, three steps back

Without warning, heart attack

He fell asleep in the snow

Never woke up, died alone

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

1-2

1-2-3-4.

Please don't dress in black

When you're at his wake

Don't go there to mourn

But to celebrate

Please don't dress in black

When you're at his wake

Don't go there to mourn

But to celebrate

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

1-2

1-2-3-4.

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be me

I don't wanna be me anymore

**[Canto II. "I'm No More"]**

[Instrumental]

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass, additional keyboards
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals
* Josh Silver – keyboards
* Johnny Kelly – live drums

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, mixing, production
* Josh Silver – engineering, effects, drum programming, mixing, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* George Marino – mastering

## Links to other songs

1. "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity"
2. "Der Untermensch"
3. "Xero Tolerance"
4. "Prelude to Agony"
5. "Glass Walls of Limbo"
6. "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences"
7. "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2"

1. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"
2. "Are You Afraid"
3. "Gravity"
4. "Pain"
5. "Kill You Tonight"
6. "Hey Pete"
7. "Kill You Tonight (reprise)"
8. "Paranoid" (bonus track)
 ***Bloody Kisses***

1. "Machine Screw"
2. "Christian Woman"
3. "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
4. "Fay Wray Come Out and Play"
5. "Kill All the White People"
6. "Summer Breeze"
7. "Set Me on Fire"
8. "Dark Side of the Womb"
9. "We Hate Everyone"
10. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)"
11. "3.0.I.F."
12. "Too Late: Frozen"
13. "Blood & Fire"
14. "Can't Lose You"
15. "Suspended in Dusk" (on special editions only)
16. "Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective)" (on special editions only)
17. "Summer Girl" (unreleased)

1. "Bad Ground"
2. "Intro"
3. "Love You to Death"
4. "Be My Druidess"
5. "Green Man"
6. "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)"
7. "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend"
8. "Die with Me"
9. "Burnt Flowers Fallen"
10. "In Praise of Bacchus"
11. "Cinnamon Girl"
12. "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa"
13. "Wolf Moon"
14. "Haunted"
15. "Outro"
 ***World Coming Down***

1. "Skip It"
2. "White Slavery"
3. "Sinus"
4. "Everyone I Love Is Dead"
5. "Who Will Save the Sane?"
6. "Liver"
7. "World Coming Down"
8. "Creepy Green Light"
9. "Everything Dies"
10. "Lung"
11. "Pyretta Blaze"
12. "All Hallows Eve"
13. "Day Tripper"

2. "**I Don't Wanna Be Me**"
3. "Less than Zero (<0)"
4. "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)"
5. "I Like Goils"
6. "...A Dish Best Served Coldly"
7. "How Could She?"
8. "Life Is Killing Me"
9. "Nettie"
10. "(We Were) Electrocute"
11. "IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)"
12. "Angry Inch"
13. "Anesthesia"
14. "Drunk in Paris"
15. "The Dream Is Dead"
 ***Dead Again***

1. "Dead Again"
2. "Tripping a Blind Man"
3. "The Profit of Doom"
4. "September Sun"
5. "Halloween in Heaven"
6. "These Three Things"
7. "She Burned Me Down"
8. "Some Stupid Tomorrow"
9. "An Ode to Locksmiths"
10. "Hail and Farewell to Britain"

* "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
* "On with the Show"
* "In the Flesh"
* "Back in the U.S.S.R."
* "It's Never Enough"
* "12 Black Rainbows"
* "Stay Out of My Dreams"
* "Highway Star"
* "Santana Medley"
* "If She Loved Me"
 **StereoType O Negative songs**

* "In the Name of Love (Pride)"
* "Dolce Vita"
* "Last Christmas"
* "Wicked Game"