Released: November 29, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 1]
The husband or the hedonist
The businessman or the communist
The artist or the showbiz creep
The lover or the nervous geek
[Pre-Chorus]
The question of identity
Is one that's always haunted me
Whoever I decide to be
Depends on who is with me
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 2]
The tactless twit putting his foot in it
Or the sensitive soul who's a role model
The urban jet setter never at home
Or the country recluse, just leave me alone
[Pre-Chorus]
Extrovert or introvert
Love is kind and love hurts
Rebellion or conformity
What is my identity?
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Bridge]
The intellectual and bon viveur, or
The naive simpleton, so immature
The devoted son and family man
Or the wicked uncle who doesn't give a damn
[Pre-Chorus]
How often these have tempted me
The question of identity
Depends on what I'm meant to be
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 1]
The husband or the hedonist
The businessman or the communist
The artist or the showbiz creep
The lover or the nervous geek
[Pre-Chorus]
The question of identity
Is one that's always haunted me
Whoever I decide to be
Depends on who is with me
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 2]
The tactless twit putting his foot in it
Or the sensitive soul who's a role model
The urban jet setter never at home
Or the country recluse, just leave me alone
[Pre-Chorus]
Extrovert or introvert
Love is kind and love hurts
Rebellion or conformity
What is my identity?
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Bridge]
The intellectual and bon viveur, or
The naive simpleton, so immature
The devoted son and family man
Or the wicked uncle who doesn't give a damn
[Pre-Chorus]
How often these have tempted me
The question of identity
Depends on what I'm meant to be
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
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- In the Night
- Some Speculation
- A New Life
- Your Funny Uncle
- One of the Crowd
- What Keeps Mankind Alive?
- Girls & Boys (Live in Rio)
- I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)
- Miserablism
- Do I Have To?
- I Want a Dog (B-Side Version)
- The Sound of the Atom Splitting (Extended Mix) [7" Version]
- Losing My Mind
- Paninaro
- Jack the Lad
- We All Feel Better in the Dark
- If Love Were All (Bitter Sweet)
- Violence (Haçienda Version)
- Music for Boys
- Too Many People
- Hey, Headmaster
- That’s My Impression (Disco Mix)
- Don Juan
- Euroboy
- Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend
- You Know Where You Went Wrong
- It Must Be Obvious
- Shameless
- A Man Could Get Arrested (Bobby Orlando Version)
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- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future