Don't Let Me Get Me

Pink

Never win first place, I don't support the team
I can't take direction, and my socks are never clean
Teachers dated me, my parents hated me
I was always in a fight 'cause I can't do nothin' right

Every day I fight a war against the mirror
I can't take the person starin' back at me
I'm a hazard to myself

Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else

I wanna be somebody else, yeah

La told me, "You'll be a pop star,
All you have to change is everything you are"
Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears
She's so pretty, that just ain't me

Doctor, doctor, won't you please prescribe me somethin'
A day in the life of someone else?
'Cause I'm a hazard to myself

Don't let me get me, no
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else

Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else

Doctor, doctor, won't you please prescribe me somethin'
A day in the life of someone else?
Don't let me get me

Oh I'm a hazard to myself
Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself, yourself
So irritating, so irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
Don't let me get me
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else (Don't let me get me, don't let me get me)


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  • +1
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    compare her to Brittany all you want, because pink will always win (especially in the musical ability category) Keep it coming Pink

    nilladon April 15, 2002   Link
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    I think this is one of the greatest songs EVER. I listen to it all the time. And I will never ever get sick of it. I think the meaning behind it is even better. I love you P!nk. You rawk! I don't get how people would compare her to Britney Spears. I mean, Britney lip-synchs & dances around on stage with fake breasts. While P!nk actually sings. And writes her OWN songs!!!

    pete_yornon April 18, 2002   Link
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    I love this song.I think this song describes P!nk better than any other song can.It describes me too,and even though people(some) like her,Britney Spears SUX!Oh yeah,P!nk's song gave me my name.^ |

    DamnBritneySpearson April 28, 2002   Link
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    I love this song sooo much! It constantly reminds me of myself everytime I listen to it. I love P!nk and her music so much. She has helped me get through pretty much every hard time that I have had in my life. I'll just go to my room and turn up her music, and knowing that she went through a lot of shit when she was younger and actually got out of it ok, makes me believe I can too. I love P!NK!

    XxKellxxBellxXon September 17, 2006   Link
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    This has got to be my favorite P!nk song ever! I saw her in Melbourne last week on her Funhouse tour and she sang this and I went crazy! I love how simple and blunt it is. Especially the second verse where she talks about how LA wanted to change her...We just gotta be ourselves and if we don't make it big then we don't. Atleast we can say we're real instead of a corporate fake!

    I've always seen this song as a message to the listeners - the only one who can ever truly bring you down is yourself. Hence "I'm my own worst enemy" If you don't beleive in yourself, no one else will either. I love P!nk's music and her "I'm me" attitude!

    MusicIsMySoulfireon August 23, 2009   Link
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    Well she feels like she doesn't like herself, so why would anybody else like her. It is partly about the fact that to be a singer they are asking her to make changes and she can't. But she wants to.

    Arobsonskiion August 17, 2010   Link
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    This song is the best since, well i don't know but it is very good. ithink that pink is just being herself and nothing fake she just seems to be REAL!!!!!!

    deeleeon February 27, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    You know what? I think that this song will be the highlight of p!nk's career... This song is wonderful because everyone can relate to it!! I love it!

    sixTRUangelson February 27, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Pink has just always done her thing and that's why I love her so much....

    Sunnyon March 05, 2002   Link
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    shes just doin what she knows best but i mean....dating a teacher....its cool though i love this chick.

    Karma330on March 08, 2002   Link

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