D               Bm7       Bb
 This band is a pathogen
     D           Bm7            Bb
It’s damaging, reprogramming my brain
          D                      Bm7
And now I cannot think the same
            Bb            D           Bm7          Bb
Please just give me some reprieve from how I am perceived
           D                    Bm7
These many lives we live as one
     Bb          D
A congealing, performed character
Bm7            Bb                D
Fist me til your hand comes out my mouth
                   Bm7   Bb
Then turn me inside out
      D                  Bm7
All I do is think of myselves
Bb           D     Bm7
How can I be dog?


[Chorus]
            Bb       D       Bm7
I chase the identity crisis
            Bb  D      Bm7
I chase the ego trip
            Bb          D            Bm7
I chase the path of the righteous
  Bb          (D)
I chase my own tail


[Interlude]
| D     | D     | Bm7     | Bb     |  x2


[Verse 2]
   D              Bm7
I exist as this
             Bb          D                               Bm7     Bb
Some concept based on projection from a project based on myself
         D                         Bm7         Bb                 D       Bm7
That has reached its peak obsession   as I can think of so little   else
              Bb          D                Bm7
I think I’m a narcissist, maybe I’m a sociopath
Bb                   D            Bm7            Bb
Could I just be self critical, or all at once at that?


[Chorus]
D  Bm7             Bb       D        Bm7
       I chase the identity crisis
            Bb  D      Bm7
I chase the ego trip
            Bb          D           Bm7
I chase the path of the righteous
  Bb           D
I chase my own tale